[ale] OT: Copying a complete hard drive

[John Wells]

Calvin Harrigan said:
> I've been reading through this thread and then it occurred to me, are
> you planning on running that XP installation on the laptop?  Even when
> you get the install transferred, will XP work?  Isn't XP tied to several
> pieces of hardware serial numbers?  If you change those pieces doesn't
> it crap out or at the very least force you to re-register or something?
> Just something to think about/verify.

I'm uncertain how it will do.  The laptop is a Pentium 4...the source
machine is an AMD Athlon 2200XP+.  I'm more worried about drivers, etc.  I
can always call and re-register it, if needed.  I've only re-registered it
once before, and I think you have a certain number (5?) of times to do it.