Vista - Vista Activation?

Yes, Complete PC Backup in Vista gives you the choice to use DVDs for the
complete backup.

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"Daze N. Knights" <Daze@microchip.com> wrote in message
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> Barry Watzman wrote:
>> All of the major image programs (Ghost, Acronis True Image, Drive Image
>> (no longer sold but still available)) have the ability to write the image
>> directly to a CD or DVD (to some extent, this may depend on the version
>> of the program you get, later versions are more capable in terms of the
>> types of devices that they can write to directly). Or, you can save the
>> image file on an intermediate media or drive and manually burn it to a CD
>> or DVD later (all of these programs can "split" an image file into CD or
>> DVD media size pieces).
>>
>> True Image, at least, has the ability (in recent versions) to make the CD
>> or DVD media containing the image directly bootable. In other cases, you
>> boot from a boot floppy or the product CD (which can be copied) and the
>> image can then be restored directly from the CD or DVD media which
>> contains it.
>>
>>
>> Daze N. Knights wrote:
>>> Barry Watzman wrote:
>>>> Yes, absolutely.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Daze N. Knights wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I assume this procedure creates an image. Is there a way to create
>>>>> such an image, burn it to DVDs, and then restore it from the DVDs,
>>>>> instead of using a HD?
>>>>>
>>>
>>> That's nice to know, but can you, perchance, elaborate on the
>>> methodology of doing so?
>>>
>
> Yes. I was aware that third-party tools can create images and then allow
> one to write them to DVD(s), but I was wondering if Vista's backup can be
> used to accomplish this without third-party tools.
>
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> Daze

Jane C wrote:
> Yes, Complete PC Backup in Vista gives you the choice to use DVDs for
> the complete backup.
>

Good to hear. Thank you, Jane.

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Daze

in xp, backing up c:\windows\system32\wpa.dbl allows you to back up your
activation in case you format and don't want to reactivate. This file does
not exist in vista. Does anyone know where vista stores activation info? This
information would be useful if I were to format and reinstall windows. If you
know please help!
"Spock" wrote:

> Isn't there a file to indicate it is activated that you can backup as it is
> on XP
> I just can't remember the file name?
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> > You will certainly have to reactivate it (Vista won't know that it was
> > previously activated), but the reactivation should proceed normally over
> > the internet (unless it's a "large OEM" copy, which ALWAYS requires
> > telephone activation).
> >
> > While Vista won't know that it's been activated previously and thus will
> > require activation, the hash that it sends to the Microsoft server should
> > cause the server to recognize that the computer and even the hard drive
> > are the same, and thus activate more or less effortlessly.
> >
> > It's able to do this because the hash includes the MAC address of the
> > network card and the SERIAL NUMBER of the hard drive, neither of which you
> > can easily change (in some cases, it may also include the Intel serial
> > number of the CPU chip itself). You can make this even more bullet-proof
> > if you manually restore the volume serial number of the hard drive
> > partition(s) so that they also have not changed.
> >
> > Julie wrote:
> >> http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/10...n_to_bit-tech/
> >> Referring to this article, I'd like to know if someone could clarify one
> >> part for me... I like to format my PC every now and then, like many
> >> others. My question is, if my HD is the same, but I am reinstalling it,
> >> wouldn't that mean I'd have to reactivate it? I would think that when the
> >> HD is formatted and a fresh install existing, it would not remember that
> >> I previously activated it.
> >>
> >> Unless the MS server has my HD ID and compares it on fresh install?
> >>
> >> Anybody know?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Julie.
> >>
> >> ps. KJP, Please Don't Respond. You're Responses Are Usually Incorrect,
> >> Just FYI.
> >
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