Ghost Microsoft to another computer

Will windows ghost to any pc, or does it have to have the same hardware configuration?

It should ghost find, though you would encounter a lot of errors since windows has a driver for almoat every piece oh hardware you have. I wouldnt recommend it.

Whenever the chipset of the mainboard changes, you will want to reinstalling windows. Windows "repairs" are a crapshoot. As a rule of thumb, sooner or later you will get weird errors and problems if you change chipsets. Ghosting it to a different PC with different chipset would be the same, so don't do it.

I upgraded a client's system today (motherboard, ram, cpu, and vid card). Fully expecting to have to repair or completley re-install, to my surprize, the thing went right into windows, detected almost all of the new hardware, and asked to be rebooted. On the reboot, windows popped up a warning that said the system had undergone major changes, and that it had re-activated within 3 days. Few clicks of the mouse it was re-activated, without having to call MS. Sometimes windows does surprize me, pleasantly. So yes it's possible, but I think the system today was a rare instance, and I wouldn't count on it going as smoothly.

Cool, good info...!