Originally posted by egghead
do you know of the proper way to clone a drive to be prepared for other computers with there own key such as what ive done

m$ says this would work for cloning
but i wonder if its only for the same type of machines as the original
cheers
egghead
When you clone a disk, you're obviously copying all the device drivers and settings from the 'source' m/c. Unless the 'target' PC is identical, you'll effectively be 'installing' a bunch of devices which don't exist. You may be able to get round round this by firing up the target m/c in Safe mode and uninstalling any non-existent devices, but it sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Might as well go for a clean install IMO.