Vista - Activation Question

Having always kept a "clone" hard drive of my complete system for emergency
use (should the main hard drive fail) and for off premises backup purposes,
which has worked flawlessly with XP Pro, my question is:

How will the "new" activation process in Vista effect my "clone" drive?
Will Vista work flawlessly like XP Pro?

NOTE: I have had to use my "clone" drive, and under XP Pro it just plugged
in and worked without having to re-activate.

NOTE: I always use identical hard drives for the main system drive and the
"clone" drive.

Want to upgrade to Vista Business, however, if issues prevent me from
continued use of the data security measures I described above, then upgrading
is not feasable.

Thanks in advance for any pertinent information....

If you use Complete PC Backup, supplied with some versions of Vista,
Business, Enterprise, Ultimate etc this clones or images the whole drive so
that you can re-image your original drive or, if you have to replace your
hard drive, you can clone the copied image to a new drive without losing
anything, including, from what i bleieve activation.

Now if you can do this with Complete PC Backup which is the same as most
other cloning software i cannot see any problem using Acronis True Image or
any other cloning software. There is no problem with XP, so there shouldn't
be any problem with Vista.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows Shell/User

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"retired fire" <retiredfire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2B1560D8-808E-4173-948C-D75D9DA6E434@microsoft.com...
> Having always kept a "clone" hard drive of my complete system for
> emergency
> use (should the main hard drive fail) and for off premises backup
> purposes,
> which has worked flawlessly with XP Pro, my question is:
>
> How will the "new" activation process in Vista effect my "clone" drive?
> Will Vista work flawlessly like XP Pro?
>
> NOTE: I have had to use my "clone" drive, and under XP Pro it just
> plugged
> in and worked without having to re-activate.
>
> NOTE: I always use identical hard drives for the main system drive and
> the
> "clone" drive.
>
> Want to upgrade to Vista Business, however, if issues prevent me from
> continued use of the data security measures I described above, then
> upgrading
> is not feasable.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pertinent information....