Robert in CA wrote:
Believe me I have knocked on wood several times during the process.

It is unfortunate we couldn't get the backspace key back but I'll certainly
post if anything comes up about it.

You mean the Activation can flip all of a sudden on it's own and I loose it
again? So does that mean I have to continually fix this?

I don't plan on changing the size of my drives. 2TB is prefect for me and
I barely used any space on the 1TB. So I don't see me changing sizes. I
have thought however of buying more blank hd's just in case.

I also still have the original hd to the 780 I think it was 733GB hard drive?


Robert


No, the Activation, I suspect, will be a one-off caused
by the cloning. But exactly why, I don't know why.

There is only the one page about it, written by an MVP
years ago. Tipping over a PC tends to happen when
a lot of hardware changes are made. User changes 2 core
processor to 4 cores, changes memory from 4GB to 8GB,
changes out the motherboard and puts in another motherboard.
Bing! Not Genuine.

Changing the hard drive is not typically part of that
calculus. If it were, I would have tipped over a PC here
by now, and that's never happened. And I'm all the time
moving OSes from one disk to another, cloning, restoring
from backup, and so on. If storage were a factor,
I'd have seen it by now. I don't think I've ever had
a Not Genuine here, for the production OSes. Sure, the
VMs I spin up here are Not Genuine, but then, they never
had a license key, they were never activated. And those are
thrown away after they get a bit old.

*******

Your 780 could be a 750GB drive. They made those at one
time, but they're not an official product today. In fact,
making small drives is "hard". The small platter now, is
1TB in size. If they need to make a 500GB hard drive,
they use half of the platter. The market still called
for 500GB drives, otherwise they would have swiftly
stopped making them and concentrated on 1TB ones.

As a consequence of the ever-expanding platters,
some of the small sizes aren't really good options
any more.

When the 750GB drive was made, it was likely made from
three platters of 250GB each.

Paul