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Is Making a clone of your hard drive illegal?
Hi does anyone know if making periodic backup hard drive image clones considered illegal, because everytime you make a backup, you clone the hard drive along with the OS.
Usually in MS Eula's they say you may only install one copy of the software and you may only make one Back-up copy, so does that mean after I install windows, then all the proper drivers, and softwares, and then make a hard drive image periodically so that just in case my system crashes i don't have to reinstall from scratch - is this considered illegal since I have so many periodic clones (and thus periodic backup copies of windows)?
Also does this apply to the third party softwares installed in windows when backing up so that i don't have to waste time and effort re-installing them everytime my system crashes - is that considered illegal aswell? Cause some of those third party softwares also say you may only make one back-up and you may not modify or distribute it in any way shape or form.
Also is using a theme or skin of one OS on another considered illegal, for example i see alot of examples of people making Ubuntu look like Mac OSX or XP look like Mac OSX or XP look like Vista etc... are these all considered illegal, since there just using a theme and not pirating the actual software
If anyone knows the true legal and legit answers to these questions, I'd be very gratefull and clear my conscious and allow me to backup my data or use themes.