Re: ot: ghosting a windows xp machine
- From: Java Jive <java@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:03:41 +0100
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:05:51 GMT, "-Darren-" <noemail@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Didn;t know what group to post this in - you guys are techie though!
I would like to Ghost a windows xp machine
However, the machine does not have a CD-RW
It can however, be networked to another machine with a CD-RW
Any ideas what app will do this? I.e. ghost to an ISO file?
I've been using Ghost for years and it's pretty good.
It is usually run in a command prompt environment, usually a W9x
command prompt booted from (a) floppy(ies). It can copy from one disk
to another disk or one disk to *.GHO/*.GHS image files on another
disk.
In the first case, the second HD is either another internal or, with
suitable drivers, a USB one that can be accessed from the boot floppy,
or else using networking/parallel/USB peer-to-peer mode another PC's
HD. In networking peer-to-peer mode note that the PCs may have
different netcards requiring different boot floppies.
In the latter case, the second hard disk is either another internal
or, with suitable drivers, a USB one that can be accessed from the
boot floppy, which means that it must be FAT32 not NTFS, or else be a
shared out over the network from another PC in the normal way.
In the networking cases, note that older 'personal' versions of Ghost
were deliberately crippled not to work over a network!
Ghost will also write to tape and CD-R(W)/DVD+-R(W), but I've never
tried to use it like that. AFAIAA it won't write directly an *.iso
file.
So you will need a boot disk that will boot up into a minimal W98
command prompt either to access a FAT32 drive or with appropriate
networking for the card(s) in the PC(s). If you have Ghost installed
as part of SystemWorks 2004, then there is a utility to create such
(a) flopp(y/ies), otherwise, you're rather on your own!
Does windows xp get fussy if the image has been burned onto a different
brand hard drive? (it's going back into the same machine)
Different brand, same type = OK, different type = possibly not ...
You can't just install Windows NT/2000/and-since on one type of drive,
Ghost or otherwise copy it off onto another type of drive, and
guarantee to have it boot. You may encounter problems if you:
1) (AFAIAA always) If you install on IDE and copy to SCSI
2) Vice versa
3) Ditto SCSI-SATA
4) (Often) If you install on IDE and copy to SATA
5) Vice versa
When you install Windows 2000, it installs a boot environment tailored
to the hardware it finds during setup, and if different drivers are
required to access the replacement drive, then it can't boot. The
most frequent symptom is a Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) with something
like: "Error:0x0000007B, Inaccessible Boot Device."
There are ways round this that are worthwhile if you really don't want
to rebuild the PC with several months or years worth of
customisations, software installations, etc, but we'll cross that
bridge if we come to it.
Basically, if it's the same type of drive, the brand shouldn't matter,
though the full size of a larger replacement might not be accessible
if your BIOS and/or Windows doesn't 48-bit LBA. For the former, check
if you BIOS needs upgrading, for the latter, there is W2K tweak, but
AFAICR it's not needed for XP - perhaps someone else can confirm or
deny.
.
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