Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
I've noticed that a lot of programs that allow you to do imaging of you HDD only let you image it back onto that HDD. So if your drive were to die because of hardware failure, you would be screwed. Anybody know of any programs that allow you to image your HDD onto another HDD that could have total different make/model?
Ok, to answer your original quetion, Ghost & True Image dont care if it is not the orginal hard drive, they even help on resizing your partitions.
eg: If you want to upgrade to a larger HDrive, the orginal HDrive has 2 partitions, they will let you adjust the size of the new partitions. Also if you just make an image of a partition you dont have to restore it to the same size partition. You can even restore it to a smaller partition if there is enough free space.
However as said, restoring an image to a different PC may have WinXP bork when it starts detecting all the new hardware.