https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/ en Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128074 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:17:33 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128074 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128073 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:49:33 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128073 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128072 P2V Copy. Migrate a Win2K+ physical system to a virtual environment i *think* that's the only way you can "copy" an installed windows os to a different pc. you can copy only into a vm. btw, "win2k+" is shorthand for "win2000, winxp, vista, win7" (and perhaps win2003, win2008). "copying" into a vm is an added feature since traditionally, hdd copy were for backing up. joybar For permanent "move", doing fresh install on win7 is best. move your docs and some things like passwords and bookmarks into the new profiles. will this work if i plug the USB with my data on it, into a Mac computer ??? -Jamster Mc pdc10 description implies the copied windows will run in a vm, so bootcamp? parallels? or a vm that runs in the bsd subsystem? (I'm not a mac user) Neal - i think you must run the winxp from old laptop inside the new win7, as if it were the old laptop. i don't think pdc can independently "copy" an installed app. Jancio: What for should I make a copy of my computer to use it on some other computer? To avoid paying for a second copy of certain software. Drawback is that the new pc (host vm) will need better hardware... pdc is not just a partition imager (i used driveimagexml for that. simple.) fubar... V2P? doesn't the source win os in source vm need to be as if installed on the destination pc's hardware? for pdc10 to move p2p, i think both pcs need to have the same chipset. windows will have trouble "healing" itself if it starts up in very different hardware (example I'd expect fail: an intel install starting up in amd hardware)]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:09:21 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128072 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128071 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:26:16 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128071 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128070 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:14:01 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128070 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128069 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:20:30 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128069 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128068 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:32:56 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128068 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128067 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:59:05 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128067 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128066 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:28:24 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128066 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128065 "... The issue is M.S. Windows licencing. If you have an OEM copy of windows which means Dell, HP, and others then you will not be able to transfer your operating system to another computer without paying for a new retail copy of windows." Microsoft has changed their licensing for VMs a few times, & I'd recommend checking their site for the latest if in doubt about the legal fine points. Dell I've read also adds a hardware key so install simply won't work elsewhere. OTOH talk to people &/or research on-line -- Microsoft isn't always interested in playing Grinch, & people have *very* often activated Windows successfully while appearing to be in violation of their license, whether installing to a new system, a VM, or both. AFAIK in most cases when activation didn't work, it just took a phone call. * * * #44: "1) My PC came with Vista pre-installed on it so I was never given the M$ install discs. Can Drive Copy make a copy of my already installed Vista-OS to use on the any of the virtual machines it supports (I plan to use Oracle’s VirtualBox) ?" Yes. Vista HP 32 seems to run quite nicely that way, but read up on VBox if you've got Vista 64. "2) ... Is today’s offering updated?" Far as I can tell, it's the same -- In the "program" folder all .exe files are dated 9/15/2010, same as the earlier version I had installed, plus running ParagonDC10_Pers_x32.msi brought up the installshield dialog to modify, repair, or remove the existing version. * * * #47: "...they have yet to develop a proper image verification routine. ... If you want to use Paragon, then I would strongly suggest that you make multiple backups (at least 2 full backups) and compare them to each other. In testing Paragon, I have twice come across a bad backup in around 80 image creations..." FWIW I've used Paragon disk image backups for years without nary a problem. Their apps do include image verification, both as an option setting up backups I believe & definitely as a separate operation. That said, Both Windows & drives can & do screw up [I've had problems once or twice *copying* images from one drive to an USB external], so I make it a practice to always store 3 backups, deleting the oldest before I start a new one. I store these on an installed old drive [normally left over from upgrades/replacements] as restore is *much* faster, then archive a copy on an eSATA external. While these *older* drives are less reliable, for home use they're good enough IMHO considering their occasional use & the redundancy of the external. I've done it this way for years, with Paragon & Acronis, and so far it's worked very well. "... I have gotten Paragon to work with some “hidden” system recovery partitions by temporarily changing the partition type to a standard NTFS or FAT-32 file type (as appropriate to the system), but this requires a disk editor..." Also FWIW, while admittedly I've only worked with recovery partitions to extract content & get rid of the things [they're often just a convenience for usually lousy tech support iMHO], I've always been able [so far] to use other tools without resorting to an editor. That said I've always been more concerned with recovering usable disk space & using IMHO better solutions [OEM hidden partitions often include stuff for other models/options wasting all sorts of space], so I never saw a need to back one up or copy the partition separately -- a bit by bit entire disk backup does grab everything to *put back exactly* in case of warranty returns, rather than try to reconstruct &/or re-mod anything. * * * #51: "... When it boots it will probably ask for drivers for no critical components like sound chip and video card etc but the core HAL will be corrected so will not prevent you from booting, which is the whole point!..." FWIW I've booted into Safe Mode, removed critical drivers in Device Mgr., then rebooted into regular Windows with pretty much the same effect Paragon apps offer, except they tend to just delete the registry references rather than the files I got rid of my way. That said, their driver injection, adding needed driver setups before the fact might make a difference to IT, because of less hands-on. As far as migrating everything from 1 PC/laptop to another, personally I've found the benefits from a fresh install usually outweigh the convenience of not starting from scratch -- you don't have as much garbage left behind, including from software updates, & there's always quite a few apps I've installed, never used, & so do without this time round. * * * #53: "do you need to uninstall version drive copy 9.5 before installing this version" **Most** Paragon apps are self-contained so no problems from installing one next to an existing version. There are exceptions however -- many of their apps use prgiso.dll, they may/may not install it to Windows' system folder, & not all versions are compatible with all versions of all their apps. I've run into one of their apps installing a version that broke several other, unrelated programs from Paragon, so as a precaution I would either backup or save a copy of that file somewhere. Otherwise in my experience it's a matter of whether you want both apps installed or not. Unless it's the same version [e.g. today's GOTD & the earlier GOTD I had installed], I don't recall ever getting a prompt to uninstall an earlier version during setup.]]> Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:03:55 -0500 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/drive-copy-personal-edition/#comment-128065