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    Solved! Cloning after Laptop death :) For free?

    ....If and only if you can get that drive (or a VHD representation of that drive), running inside a VM...maybe.[/quotemsg] Yes I know - I will give it a go and let you know. Here is the really basic steps with like zero instructions...
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    Solved! Cloning after Laptop death :) For free?

    Hi USA FRet, Thanks for your answer. You are right cloning a dead system directly over won't work and there are OS licensing issues. I am not trying to do that (sorry my post is so long) Ijust want to get all the serials from my dead system software by temporarily re-animating it, and then...
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    Solved! Cloning after Laptop death :) For free?

    Hi, I am writing to ask for any advice but hope this might be helpful to others as well. My old computer blew up. I have bought a new T540p (lenovo) with Win 8.1 64bit OEM installed on a 500GB HDD. I have removed the 500GB SDD from my now defunct Thinkpad X61 (also ran Win 8.1 64bit) I tried...