How can I make my cloned drive to act as a separate computer on my desktop?

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klbalangue

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I have recent cloned the hard drive of my laptop to my desktop computer using DriveImageXML's Drive to Drive transfer. so I placed the clone of my laptop on a separate partition of the desktop's hard drive. But of course the desktop is using the default partition (C: Drive).
Now, I want it to act like a separate computer but I don't know how to do this. I figured that it should be like 2 OS in 1 computer. And also would I be able to configure it the same way as it was on my laptop?
Please help me if this is possible.
 
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When you sold the laptop, did you include the OS? If so, you cannot do what you're trying to do.

In giving/selling him the laptop with the OS, you transfer all rights to that license to the new owner. You cannot use it anymore, even in a VM.
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First, if you get it to boot it won't run the desktop, because all the drivers are for the laptop.

You can have 2 operating systems, but you have to install both from scratch, and the lead OSs boot loader lets you choose on start up.

Another way is 2 drives, and changing the boot drive in the BIOS each time you change, or use a third party boot loader.


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What Operating System?
 
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Couple issues here:

1. The laptop image won't run properly if at all on the desktop hardware.

2. That install is licensed to that machine. You can't use it in both devices at once.

3. You can dualboot, but you cannot run 'both' at the same time.
Well, you can, but that would be 1 in a VM, 1 as the host.
 
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klbalangue

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@millwright: Windows 7
and yes I've tried to convert the physical machine but it converts the whole machine.... I only want it to convert the certain partition where I have stored the clone of my laptop's hard drive. Plus, I thought when you clone the hard drive of the laptop, it copies everything or does it leave the laptop's drivers?
 
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You can't convert the image. You have to convert the physical running laptop.

An image copies everything(including drivers). This is where you run into issues. The hardware of any machine will be different from your laptop, and the laptop image may not run correctly due to these differences. The conversion process works by removing these differences and converting the hardware to a single stable platform(VM).
 
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klbalangue

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Ok thanks, I don't have the physical laptop any more as It's been sent to it's new owner. The only thing I have now is the copy of my laptop's drive into one of my desktop's partition. So what do you suggest is the best thing to do? I won't mind running it on a VM but how can I then take the copy of my laptop's drive and restore it on a VM running windows 7?
 
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ss202sl

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first create a VM with just a blank(no OS) drive. It will act just like a PC without an OS on the drive. You would then have to load the image into it's drive just like the physical laptop. Once this is done, you'll have the system with all the drivers of the laptop. At this point, you may need to do one of several things, and I'm not sure what will work here because sometimes it doesn't work well no matter what you do. I'd first go into safe mode, and try to remove drivers for video, sound, keypad(mouse touch pad), network adaptors, any chip drivers. Once the drivers have been removed, you should be able to reboot, and it may pick up the new hardware and be fine. You also may have to play with it, and maybe running sysprep will work.
 
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When you sold the laptop, did you include the OS? If so, you cannot do what you're trying to do.

In giving/selling him the laptop with the OS, you transfer all rights to that license to the new owner. You cannot use it anymore, even in a VM.
 
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