Ghost & Win XP

[Anonymous]

Does any one know how to create an image of windows xp using ghost 2003 that would work with another computer that is totally different hardware wise?
Please advise or direct me to the site where this is explained.

[rdc]

I did succeed to load a ghost image on  another computer , with another  tower   another motherboard ,another processor and also ddr ram instead of  sdram .
There\'s no trick , or you succeed or you don\'t .My harddisks display adapter and audio card were the same .
I had to reactivate by phone .

[Tracky110XP]

look into using sysprep off the XP cd located supporttoolsdeploy.cab

299840.KB.EN-US How to Use Sysprep with Windows Product Activation or Volume License : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...KB;EN-US;299840

302577.KB.EN-US HOW TO: Use Sysprep.exe Tool to Automate Successful Deployment of : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...KB;EN-US;302577

282190.KB.EN-US Description of New Features in Sysprep for Windows XP : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...KB;EN-US;282190

Have fun.

[khalidnet2002]

Does any one know how to create an image of windows xp using ghost 2003 that would work with another computer that is totally different hardware wise?
Please advise or direct me to the site where this is explained

PLEASE THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT.
HOW CAN WE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.

[khalidnet2002]

no answers yet?

[Space Between]

Is it really that important?

Anyhow why doesnt it work now??? What error msg\'s does it give you??? What switch\'s did you use with ghost??? How many computer\'s did you try the ghost image on??? How many different error msg\'s have you seen on a single computer??? Did you install the orginal winxp through DOS or straight off the cd??? Have you fixed/modified the .gho since you have made it and have you tried it after that??? Did you ghost the image off a ntfs or fat drive??  Is it a  legit xp or bootleg??

[MuffinAss]

I don\'t think it can be done by an \"average Joe\", if done at all, considering the OS is tied to the hardware with only a few changes allowed before a \"lockout\". If it\'s totally different hardware with a different bios, I wouldn\'t count on it working.

Just out of curiousity, why not just do a clean install on the other PC? You can easily get the Volume License version and a KeyGen on Kazaa so that it appears legit.

I would never condone doing something like that, but nonetheless, it\'s an option. Or you could just get a copy of Linux and just install on as many computers as you like without upsetting Uncle Bill & Monkey Boy Ballmer.

[Space Between]

Hey muffin ass that your pic?? and if it is do you live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area??? You look ALOT like someone i sort of know.

[Tracky110XP]

Did you not read the information that i put above your post?

sysprep is an MS tool that will strip out the hardware infomraiton and GIDS and PIDS from a system so that it is \"generic\".

you use sysprep on the system, then use ghost to create an image, then use that image on a new system.

This is best if done with a corp version of XP, or any copy that does not require activation.

[Zeke]

I\'m a little unstudied on this, but when I sysprep a machine with win2k, instead of double clicking the \"sysprep.exe\" file that gets extracted, I run the command from a cmd prompt with a /pnp switch. Kinda like:

start > run > \"c:sysprepsysprep.exe /pnp\"

I\'m not sure if XP has the /pnp switch, so you might try this first to see what switches are available for the command.

Start > run > cmd > at the cmd prompt type c:directory with sysprep.exesysprep.exe /?

good luck - sorry I didn\'t know for sure
Zeke