i'm just wondering, if i made a clone/image of a pc and i want to transfer it to other pc,

does ut have to be the same type of hardware, e.g., an radeon vc transfer to a pc w/ geforce

or diff mb chipset.

Same.

That is, unless you had a copy of SnapDeploy with the Universal Deploy package from Acronis. Works like a charm!

you can also use True Image Workstation with Universal Restore.

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products...al-restore.html

Actually there are a number of ways to do it. the biggest hang up is the HAL type. The second is the Hard drive controller. After that you just need to intall the other drivers that don't exist.

Vista seems to be really good about unlike hardware. I created a vista machine in vmware and ghosted it to a real pc just to test it. After taking an extra two or three minutes to automagically install drivers during the first boot it ran normally after that.