Re: [Clonezilla-live] From windows XP to Windows 7 same hardware, any caveats?

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Well, I am not a lawyer. However, what I know about this is you can 
_NOT_ clone those due to the license issue.
Anyway, maybe your license allows you to do that. Therefore, for the 
legal issue, you should contact your lawyer, or MS. You will get a 
better answer I believe.

Steven.


On 11/10/2010 03:24 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
>
>   I am a happy clonezilla user that has cloned several labs using
> clonezilla happily.  I have a friend who is a teacher that has a lab
> with 25 computers, He had only 20.  We setup one machine how we
> wanted, then we cloned the same configuration to all the machines.  He
> recently got 5 more machines(idential Dell Optiplex 780 but these new
> machines got Windows 7).  My friend wanted to know, if there are any
> gotchas, if we setup one Windows 7 machine and clone it to the rest of
> the machines.  Only 5 of the machines have the license tag(windows 7
> with product key), the others that we cloned have windows Xp but the
> license key say Windows Vista Business).  One of the persons in charge
> told me that if we cloned the machines, we were on our own in terms of
> licensing.  I told him that the machines had a sticker for Vista
> Business and they had Windows XP.  Another teacher told me that in
> case of a lawsuit, we would lose.  The machines(Dell) would work
> nicely with Windows 7, probably get Updates and would work, but if
> someone(tech) checks we could get in trouble.  What should I tell my
> friend?
>
> A part of me wants to use clonezilla and make all the machines Windows
> 7, but that advice about getting in trouble stops me from going on
> ahead with this.  I appreciate any advice/suggestions in this case.  I
> am a happy clonezilla-live user and am grateful to the developers and
> programmers.
>
> /* Clonezilla copies from smaller hard disks to larger hard disks, but
> not the other way around,
> I had to copy a larger hard driver to a smaller one, I managed to do
> it(with clonezilla), but it took me a little bit longer to do it.  In
> case any one would like to know how, I will write the steps I did.
> */
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
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