Tired of Installing Your OS?

[Munkay]

Kp' date='Apr 13 2008, 07:33 PM' post='146336']
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.

You've misread my post [vL]Kp, I'm not trying to transfer my current computer's data into a new laptop. I'm looking to make a drive image of the new laptop once I get it configured the way I want it. There'd be no transferring of data from one computer to the next via drive imaging.

Cheers,

Munk