Are Processors 'Plug and Play'?

[XanderK9]

Sometimes, it does not ask you right away. It can take several days before it went "OMG, Windows is not genuine" and all that stuff.

[Tygron]

Really? That's kinda odd. But alright. Doesn't really matter as long as the validation code works though, it's not that big a deal. I mean what happens with non genuine windows? no automatic updates? big whoop. XD

[aj]

Just out of curiousity, have you messed with imaging a Vista/Win 7 partition onto another drive? My boss had so much trouble doing it with Norton Ghost that he gave up and reinstalled windows. Personally, I'd use DD, but...

I've lost track of the number of times I've imaged my drive onto another drive. As long as the destination drive is bigger, clonezilla hasn't given me any problems with a straight device to device clone, and Win7's fine with it.

Partition to partition clones are another story though. That you have to mess around with boot flags, as well as Win 7's startup repair/diagnostics partition. Tried it once, didn't go so well.