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micky
Follow up on restoring XP to other hardware, esp BillW50
INTRO:
Anyone following my hardware problems in another thread might wonder
why I don't just take my good harddrive, or even my backup files a
week or two older, and install them to another computer. Especially
since I have one t hat I'm using, a better one than is broken!
Good question.
Part of the reason is that I want a fullly functional computer when I
do this, software included, so that when I get in trouble, I'll be
able to get help, probably from you guys! My temp computer works fine
but it doesn't have the adrresses, settings, stored history, or much
of the software, that I normally have.
Part of the reason is that I never bought the memory for my even
better computer, which has only 256K iirc, at most 512.
And I could never choose between Acronis True Image Home with Plus
Pack and Paragon -- Adaptive Restore. Plus the second and maybe the
first comes with more than one piece of software.
THE IMPORTANT PART:
However, Amazon now has Acronis True Image Home Plus for 49 dollars,
free shipping, Surely that includes all the features of Plus Pack,
but at least the one I want is visible on the box image.
And Amazon has Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Home, for 20 dollars, down
from 30 at some previous time, including I think when I looked at it
at the start of May. I have to try to verify if it has Adaptive
Restore in it. Well the picture of the box says "Restores on
Different Hardware" and on the webpage for v10 it alsso says so:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/brh/
It's still being sold on the Paragon site for 30, but Amazon has
already marked it down. Actualy maybe Paragon has marked it down and
Amazon even more. This also has the manual downloadable, almost
always a good marketing tool. Harbor Freight does that too when there
is a manual.
I think version 11 is out now, but all the improvements probably
relate to 7, and the whole reason I want this is to use XP on my next
computer.
"Next Generation of Adaptive Restore
A powerful and unique technology that restores any version of Windows
(since Win2K) to completely different hardware by injecting the
required drivers crucial for a migration of this kind.
You can also recover the startup ability after an unsuccessful system
migration to a different hardware platform with 3-d party tool.
Smart Driver Injector: A powerful technology that makes the process of
adding new drivers (for P2P operations) smooth and easy."
This part of the manual is very intersting "Making system bootable on
different hardware (P2P Adjust OS)
Let’s assume you had to migrate to a new hardware platform. You
connected your system hard disk to the brand new PC and tried to start
up the operating system - you do know for sure now that this operation
had been doomed to failure from the very beginning. With our program
you can easily tackle this naughty problem."
But I still plan to use Acronis first.
I am very thrifty, but it's happened a dozen times that I delay buying
something and then buy two of them, slightly different, so it may turn
out that I get both of these. I don't think this trait of mine is
productive, but I don't fight it much. I'm still very thrify over
all.
It will still be a while before I can tell you if they work, but maybe
since both computers are in the basement now, next to each other, this
would be a good time to migrate.
INTRO:
Anyone following my hardware problems in another thread might wonder
why I don't just take my good harddrive, or even my backup files a
week or two older, and install them to another computer. Especially
since I have one t hat I'm using, a better one than is broken!
Good question.
Part of the reason is that I want a fullly functional computer when I
do this, software included, so that when I get in trouble, I'll be
able to get help, probably from you guys! My temp computer works fine
but it doesn't have the adrresses, settings, stored history, or much
of the software, that I normally have.
Part of the reason is that I never bought the memory for my even
better computer, which has only 256K iirc, at most 512.
And I could never choose between Acronis True Image Home with Plus
Pack and Paragon -- Adaptive Restore. Plus the second and maybe the
first comes with more than one piece of software.
THE IMPORTANT PART:
However, Amazon now has Acronis True Image Home Plus for 49 dollars,
free shipping, Surely that includes all the features of Plus Pack,
but at least the one I want is visible on the box image.
And Amazon has Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Home, for 20 dollars, down
from 30 at some previous time, including I think when I looked at it
at the start of May. I have to try to verify if it has Adaptive
Restore in it. Well the picture of the box says "Restores on
Different Hardware" and on the webpage for v10 it alsso says so:
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/brh/
It's still being sold on the Paragon site for 30, but Amazon has
already marked it down. Actualy maybe Paragon has marked it down and
Amazon even more. This also has the manual downloadable, almost
always a good marketing tool. Harbor Freight does that too when there
is a manual.
I think version 11 is out now, but all the improvements probably
relate to 7, and the whole reason I want this is to use XP on my next
computer.
"Next Generation of Adaptive Restore
A powerful and unique technology that restores any version of Windows
(since Win2K) to completely different hardware by injecting the
required drivers crucial for a migration of this kind.
You can also recover the startup ability after an unsuccessful system
migration to a different hardware platform with 3-d party tool.
Smart Driver Injector: A powerful technology that makes the process of
adding new drivers (for P2P operations) smooth and easy."
This part of the manual is very intersting "Making system bootable on
different hardware (P2P Adjust OS)
Let’s assume you had to migrate to a new hardware platform. You
connected your system hard disk to the brand new PC and tried to start
up the operating system - you do know for sure now that this operation
had been doomed to failure from the very beginning. With our program
you can easily tackle this naughty problem."
But I still plan to use Acronis first.
I am very thrifty, but it's happened a dozen times that I delay buying
something and then buy two of them, slightly different, so it may turn
out that I get both of these. I don't think this trait of mine is
productive, but I don't fight it much. I'm still very thrify over
all.
It will still be a while before I can tell you if they work, but maybe
since both computers are in the basement now, next to each other, this
would be a good time to migrate.