Ghost a drive

[Combat Wombat]

Howdy Partners,

One of my Rig's is about to kick the bucket so I have bought a new hard drive, and I was wondering you any of you know any good free software that can retrieve serial numbers...

I'm going to use Ghostzila to clone the hdd onto the new hdd.. but I have a crap ton of software that I will need the serial numbers for... like BF3... adobe CS5... ect...
Will BF3/CS5 transfer straight over and work straight up? Or will I need to get the serial numbers and add them again..

This is not usually something I deal with IT wise, usually building or designing.

Thanks, Wombat.

 

[nhasian]

what you want to use is Clonezilla

Howdy Partners,

One of my Rig's is about to kick the bucket so I have bought a new hard drive, and I was wondering you any of you know any good free software that can retrieve serial numbers...

I'm going to use Ghostzila to clone t.

 

[Combat Wombat]

Yea I have the ghosting software... its more the serials I'm worried about.

 

[rdc85]

if u ghost/clone the OS and software the serial is cloned too, why did u need to extract each of them?

from my experience with acronis, restoring cloned image restore it to condition when i cloned, all program installed and working. but i cannot said the same with Ghostzila (never used it)

 

[nhasian]

you dont need to worry about serials when you clone a drive.

 

[Combat Wombat]

right on! im running clonezilla on it right now.. see how we go

 

[mcnumpty23]

as said you dont need them if cloning

but why not back them up anyway in case of disaster in the future?

plenty free software to do it

heres one

http://www.klinzmann.name/licensecrawler.htm

 

[Combat Wombat]

Everything went across fine, I haven't had a chance to have a fiddle with it yet, however I did log in and everything seemed the same, let yarl no for sure tomorrow.

 

[nhasian]

thats fantastic. I use clonezilla frequently as I test developmental versions of Fedora and Ubuntu and it makes it easy to roll back to a good configuration if some developmental update borks the system. if your issue is resolved please mark the thread solved.

 

[Combat Wombat]

Hey guys, finally had a chance to run up the PC, yea Clonezilla is the way to go... I'll be using it from now on. Everything works as it did on the old Hdd..

Thanks, all.

 

[Combat Wombat]

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