New Posts For Thread: Copying the contents of a laptop hard diskhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-diskSuppose I have a set of programs on one laptop, and I want to copy them to another laptop. Assume that I don't have any installations disks or product keys.What's the best way to do this?Could I, for instance, just attach an external hard disk to theIf you clone a hard drive you'll have two laptops using the same windows license.This won't cause a problem immediately but the windows license COA serial number will have to be amended.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524486337#524486337If you clone a hard drive you'll have two laptops using the same windows license.This won't cause a problem immediately but the windows license COA serial number will have to be amended.Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:37:38 -0500Cheers genelec.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524443869#524443869Cheers genelec.Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:39:56 -0500http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.phpFollow the instructionshttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524442697#524442697http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.phpFollow the instructionsMon, 24 Sep 2012 12:59:37 -0500Only reason I'd avoid doing a clone is that you bring forward any crap you had on the old PC , sometimes it's nice to start with a clean slate and just install what you need. But if you do want to clone you can just do a backup image of the old PC thhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524439737#524439737Only reason I'd avoid doing a clone is that you bring forward any crap you had on the old PC , sometimes it's nice to start with a clean slate and just install what you need. But if you do want to clone you can just do a backup image of the old PC thMon, 24 Sep 2012 11:10:11 -0500DStyle,The two laptops involved are identical in hardware terms, so there shouldn't be a problem with driver incompatibility. How do I actually carry out the disk cloning though? Do I need some external storage device/hard disk?BTW, thanks for the tihttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524438977#524438977DStyle,The two laptops involved are identical in hardware terms, so there shouldn't be a problem with driver incompatibility. How do I actually carry out the disk cloning though? Do I need some external storage device/hard disk?BTW, thanks for the tiMon, 24 Sep 2012 10:45:29 -0500disk cloning is the right starting point assuming the disk you are cloning contains the operating system, as product verification will be muddled in with the registry.as genelec intimates, the problem with a full clone of a primary boot disk to a difhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524436367#524436367disk cloning is the right starting point assuming the disk you are cloning contains the operating system, as product verification will be muddled in with the registry.as genelec intimates, the problem with a full clone of a primary boot disk to a difMon, 24 Sep 2012 09:16:47 -0500One way to do this is to clone the original disc complete with operating system and put it into a second laptop as a secondary drive. Go into safe mode when booting the cloned disc for the first time in order to delete graphics / sound etc.. drivers.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524429653#524429653One way to do this is to clone the original disc complete with operating system and put it into a second laptop as a secondary drive. Go into safe mode when booting the cloned disc for the first time in order to delete graphics / sound etc.. drivers.Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:07:46 -0500Thanks Ghetto Joe.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524403713#524403713Thanks Ghetto Joe.Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:53:15 -0500There are plenty of programs out there that'll extract the product key/serial for you and the installation programs are generally all downloaded rather than on disks these days. Have a look on google for product key finders, here's a list of free onehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524403121#524403121There are plenty of programs out there that'll extract the product key/serial for you and the installation programs are generally all downloaded rather than on disks these days. Have a look on google for product key finders, here's a list of free oneSun, 23 Sep 2012 07:27:18 -0500Cheers Feck. There is software available to facilitate the process, but I think the problem might be that if I have programs on my old PC for which I don't have the product key, then these won't work on the new one.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/29394523/copying-the-contents-of-a-laptop-hard-disk?post_id=524402259#524402259Cheers Feck. There is software available to facilitate the process, but I think the problem might be that if I have programs on my old PC for which I don't have the product key, then these won't work on the new one.Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:45:33 -0500