I need a "ghost" expert for Win XP

[Technican]

hi:

The main purpose of "my" ghosting is to be able to take a hard drive all setup and clone it to a clients hard drive so I dont have to do all the installs of the OS and programs like office, norton's etc. When doing this with win 95/98/me it was a snap. after the ghost you would boot the new hard drive in a completely different hardware environment and delete the ENUM in the registry. windows would then do a new hardware detection and you're all set...

however in windows XP it seems that it doesn't work because of the difference in the hard drive controllers. On boot-up I get a blue stop screen indicating the controller problem. For some reason, which I'm still experimenting with, when I run recovery console it asks for the administrator password. There isnt a password so I dont know why I cant get past that to even see if the console will repair it. any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[LED]

You prolly need a newer version (ie Ghost 2002)

 

[RalfHutter]

Your problem has nothing to do with the version of Ghost you're using. It's a Win2000/XP kind of thing. The OS just doesn't like being put on a different MoBo. You can do something via M$ "Sysprep" utility but I don't know the details. There's been some links posted in reference to this exact topic over the last few weeks. I'd search the General Hardware and Operating Systems forums and see what you turn up. Also search the M$ knowledgebase for "Sysprep".

 

[yazz]

if i remember right the first keystroke in Recovery Console is what Install you want to choose to login to? i press: 1
then i just hit enter for my administrator password.