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Reimaging a dell vostro 220 with vista

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Hey, I bought a Dell Vostro 220 with vista home edition. I am trying to reimage the computer of a Dell vostro 200 that had xp but it doesn't work. can anyone help me out? Thanks.

Reply to SunKhan13
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do you really think microsoft would let you use the same OS twice when you only paid for it once ?

or to put it another way : it wont work

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when you say reimage, do you mean you're trying to copy an image of the whole system?

This is a pig of a process (trust me, part of my job) and fiendish on 2 dissimilar systems.

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Outlander_04 wrote :

do you really think microsoft would let you use the same OS twice when you only paid for it once ?

or to put it another way : it wont work




Tell that to the other computers it worked with.

Reply to SunKhan13

mi1ez wrote :

when you say reimage, do you mean you're trying to copy an image of the whole system?

This is a pig of a process (trust me, part of my job) and fiendish on 2 dissimilar systems.





Yea I copied an image of another Dell vostro 200 and I am trying to restore that Image on this Dell Vostro 220.

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