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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndrewDun" data-source="post: 1947342" data-attributes="member: 404249">Thank you, Patrick, for your incredibly prompt reply. I don't know whether you recognise the problem of software detecting the individuality of the machine. I do routinely make sure that I have a cloned spare hard drive in case I need a rapid recovery from a failed hard drive. But I find that fitting the clone (or original) hard drive in a different (even though nominally identical) machine brings up the problem that some programmes demand to be re-activated (by temporary connection to the supplier), but the supplier now will not perform the re-activation, saying that it is my edition is longer supported. The problem does not occur with any of the older software, which could easily be reinstalled on nearly any old Mac.So my question revolves round the idea of making one Mac a real clone of another, so that no software can distinguish between them.</blockquote>