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TatorThanks for your report!
It's too bad that there does not seem to be anyone else using DiscWizard that is willing to comment and participate in this discussion on our forum.
Tator wrote on Feb 1st, 2015 at 9:37am:This means Discwizard 11 is still a very good backup program up through Win8.1 as long as a backup image is restored to the same drive and partition as the image source.
I think this generalization is probably true for all (most?) imaging software. We found this to be true with Ghost 2003 and Corp. Ghost 8.x--as long as the image is a partition only restore (it could come from a whole drive image as long as it is a partition only restore), and it is restored to the original source system, HDD, and partition--everything should work without any issues.
But, ...you made this initial statement:
Tator wrote on Feb 1st, 2015 at 9:37am:Further tests find the conclusion a reinstall is required in event of drive failure to be a false conclusion.
Usually, in the event of *drive failure*--you have to replace the failed HDD with a new one! That should have created a boot failure that required at the very least a *repair*--but, you don't mention anything like that.
Did you actually restore the image to a new HDD?
And, you made this next statement:
Tator wrote on Feb 1st, 2015 at 9:37am:The system the experiment was performed on had a wireless adapter used to connect to internet which was not yet configured.
Is this the same system you outlined in your reply # 14, or is this a different system?
Tator wrote on Feb 1st, 2015 at 9:37am:Once the wireless adapter was configured and Windows updates were installed, the "Activate Windows" tab disappeared from Change PC Settings in Win8.1Pro.
I have not worked with Win8.x, so I am unsure if the above behavior is specific to Win8.x. In earlier versions of Windows, if you make a partition image of an already activated OS, and then restore that partition image to the same source system, same HDD, same partition, then I've never seen any type of request to re-active the OS.
Was the image you restored taken after OS installation,
but before OS Activation (but you have already entered the Product Key)? And, if so, then restoring that image would always be prior to activation, and the OS would show that procedure occurring each time you restore that image. And it should succeed--presumably because the product activation code should be the same as the previous activation code because everything on the system has remained the *same*! As I understand it, there has to be enough hardware changes to make it look like the system is a whole new computer before re-activation and validation will occur (probably changing just a failed HDD will not trigger the activation process to think you have a whole new computer).
Just curious what's going on, and why you saw that activation tab.
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