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Re: Copying Hard Drives


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  • Subject: Re: Copying Hard Drives
  • From: "Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:13:46 -0000
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There is a Microsoft program called SysPrep that will wind back an install
to
the point just before hardware installation. I've seen this used to make a
"virgin"
ghost image with no hardware installed that can then be restored to a new
PC and
it will just detect the hardware it finds. This was on Win2K but I think
that
there is an XP version of it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/deploying/introduction.asp

I *think* ghost 2003 comes with a similar facility built in... trouble is
that
I can't figure out how to use Ghost2003 :S. Norton seem to have taken a
small
simple program that just did what you wanted and made it a lot bigger and
more complicated..

Marcus

======= original email =========
Mark McCall wrote:
>>I've been using Norton Ghost for just that since '96.
>
>
> Something I keep meaning to do too.
>
> What happens if you restore a ghost image to different hardware?  Is
there
> some initial thrashing whilst new hardware is detected, or is this a
recipe
> for an unstable machine?


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