Yes, I know this well. I don't DL anything anymore that I know I will never have a use for. Just living by this credo alone has saved much $$ and time in acquiring additional storage to save stuff that is useless to my endeavors.

When restoring the images to the physical drives make certain to restore the original drive signatures if/when re-imaging - as in, avoid using a new or automatically generated signature when restoring. Use the signature from the original backup (truimage records the original disk signatures automatically on backup, with other tools your mileage may vary...). This can help mitigate issues that would arise with apps that register themselves with hardware ID's and disk signatures, etc.

 

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