Tired of Installing Your OS?

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Ah, what fortuitous timing GhastMaster. I'm in the market for a new computer, and have been toying with the idea of drive imaging since reading an article on lifehacker a few months back. Happy to see some concrete programs to play with. Thanks!

Cheers,

Munk

This may not play out as well as you expect. Windows typically installs only the drivers needed for the hardware you're installing it on. Moving Windows from one configuration to another is often rather troublesome, and the more different they are, the more you'll have to fight it. This limitation applies regardless of how you move the image, since it's a fundamental problem with the Windows boot process.

You can often mitigate the effects by installing the new hard drive as a slave in the old system, booting Windows, letting it install the drivers, then shutting down and collecting your system image.