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Old 13th Jan 2022, 08:22
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Some of the more sophisticated software licensing systems literally record the disk block the license was installed in, others use the system-id, although these kinds of systems are not that common. Cloning a disk, especially when a technology jump is involved, will often render these licenses invalid.

However, I think cloning a disk still remains your best option, just remember to preserve the same drive letter after your disk clone, that is, if your current disk uses drive C: then after the clone your new disk should also use drive C: and your old disk changed to another drive letter if still attached.

I once cloned C: to D: once and used D: as the new disk. I previously exported the registry to a text file, did a search/replace for all the C: references and changed them to D: (not as simple as it sounds) then imported it back into the new Windows registry. I got most of it working but there were some systems that didn't work but I didn't care much for them.

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