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On 05/03/2010 09:57 AM, James Kramer wrote: > 4. Can I make an image of Windows 7 using Clonezilla and then > reinstall the image in a virtual environment? Regarding this question, the answer is quite possibly no. If you bought the computer from an OEM (such as Dell) that uses Microsoft's SLP for activating the OS (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Preinstallation), then when you run the cloned image of the system in a VM, Windows will tell you that it's not activated - and you won't be able to activate, since the VM's BIOS won't contain the needed SLP codes. I ran into this issue when trying to run my WinXP partition under VirtualBox until I finally realized it wasn't possible, since Dell had installed SLP on the Windows installation. HTH, DR
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