On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 08:44 -0400, Hena Dutta wrote:
> I tried with clonezill and it did not work.
There are many problems with what you are trying to do.
1. Windows license is tied to the hardware, thus it's not likely to
work out of the box if you clone the whole drive.
2. Even though it's the same computer model, the hardware (e.g. mobo)
may well be a different model. This may trigger some problems (e.g.
uuid of the hard drives won't match), although modern os should deal
with some of these.
So, what exactly didn't work with clonezilla - did you clone the linux
partition and then it just does not work? What exactly happens?
Frankly, it may be faster to have a fresh linux install and then set up
all the programs. If you did this before on the older machine, then you
know what to do already. If it was someone else, then you will learn a
lot. And you have an advantage of the existing setup, so that you can
always check the relevant configuration files.
Personally, I use the following universal guide for all computer issues
http://xkcd.com/627/
Cheers,
ed.
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