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<FeelLikeANut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm hoping someone here has experience with Acronis TrueImage. I
> formatted my desktop and re-installed everything cleanly -- Windows,
> anti-virus, Office, etc. All the essentials for a basic system. Once I
> had everything perfect, I used TrueImage to make and burn a backup of
> the system to a DVD disc. Then I restored that backup on my laptop, so
> it should have a duplicate of my "perfect system." Now when my laptop
> boots, the initial "Windows XP" screen shows for a split-second, and
> then the computer just reboots.
>
> Does anyone have experience creating a system image and restoring it
> on another computer? I'd really like to figure out where I went wrong.
>
> Thanks.
The phone's ringing ... it's for you ... Microsoft's lawyer holding.
You backup up system A and reinstalled on system B. Think of it as
instructions/directions. On the original/ same model system, the
directions are the same. ( Left/ then 2 rights/ 2 lefts ...) You installed
on a DIFFERENT pc and "how to get from here to there" is TOTALLY
different. All of a laptop's stuff is done internally on a few chips and
on the desktop it MIGHT use separate parts of machine, so when you tell
XP to "turn on the network" it's instructions to new different CPU have
NOTHING to do with a network ( or video etc) . The desktop may have a $300
video card at address 123 and the address of the laptop's video is at 456.
The CPU starts out with basic video OK, then XP tells it to use address
123- XP doesn't know how to "do what you told it" / crashes and reboots.
news:f78ced05-3a8e-4f3e-81bb-ab83e6926ca0@w34g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I'm hoping someone here has experience with Acronis TrueImage. I
> formatted my desktop and re-installed everything cleanly -- Windows,
> anti-virus, Office, etc. All the essentials for a basic system. Once I
> had everything perfect, I used TrueImage to make and burn a backup of
> the system to a DVD disc. Then I restored that backup on my laptop, so
> it should have a duplicate of my "perfect system." Now when my laptop
> boots, the initial "Windows XP" screen shows for a split-second, and
> then the computer just reboots.
>
> Does anyone have experience creating a system image and restoring it
> on another computer? I'd really like to figure out where I went wrong.
>
> Thanks.
The phone's ringing ... it's for you ... Microsoft's lawyer holding.
You backup up system A and reinstalled on system B. Think of it as
instructions/directions. On the original/ same model system, the
directions are the same. ( Left/ then 2 rights/ 2 lefts ...) You installed
on a DIFFERENT pc and "how to get from here to there" is TOTALLY
different. All of a laptop's stuff is done internally on a few chips and
on the desktop it MIGHT use separate parts of machine, so when you tell
XP to "turn on the network" it's instructions to new different CPU have
NOTHING to do with a network ( or video etc) . The desktop may have a $300
video card at address 123 and the address of the laptop's video is at 456.
The CPU starts out with basic video OK, then XP tells it to use address
123- XP doesn't know how to "do what you told it" / crashes and reboots.