XP Sp2
Hola. Straight question. I bought this and want to do a full backup on a machine working on its 13th year. Its getting wonky. Can i do a full back up bootable and restore this to a brand new bare machine? It says i can, i think, but i am being told no, that is not how it will work.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Miqui


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Personal safety and privacy are not on my list of concerns. Been in this business too long to beleive you have any. :-)
Its a program that was discontinued years ago and will not run on anything in any configuration i have tried except SP2. I wanted someone to build something similar but none of these new code jockeys can or are willing to make it. You are right though. I cant do baremetal restore. I forgot the UEFI coup. Going to figure out a configuration on VM and boot from ex media to that. See if that will work.
Thanks anyway for your time and input.
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VM is probably the way to go. You should be able to take a full disk image of your current system and restore that image to a virtual hard drive in Virtual Box or VMware workstation (I do this in my test environment pretty regularly) with Windows 10 and it usually "just works". However, with XP, as the base OS, you may need to run universal restore after the backup image has been deployed to the VM. IF/when you deploy to the VM, make sure the VM bios matches your original OS install as well (legacy or UEFI - guessing legacy since it's 13 years old). Vmware used to default to legacy and if you wanted UEFI you had to manually edit one of the config files. However, now, it's part of the gui option when deploying. I havent' used Virtual Box in awhile, but it should default to Legacy/Bios mode as well and seems like is supports UEFI now too.
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