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Old 03-26-2008, 09:15 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Default Re: Fixing to completely wipe hard drives..... Need Help

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Originally Posted by eyeCpc View Post
And simply using a cloning software doesn't provide any guarnateed results either. A new mbr and other things like hardware profiling have to be considered.
I've done it with several computers with Ghost, and it works perfect. A new MBR is made, and the OS is retained. There's an option box that you check that asks you if this drive will be used for the OS to be booting off of. Check that box, and it copies over everything. I've done it on my HP, as well as my current rig, several times to upgrade to new drives, rather than reinstalling totally.
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