PC -> PC transfer w/o OS

[BlueApple]

Is there a way to transfer all of one disks contents (inc OS) from one PC to another that doesn?t have an OS on it? I'd set the BIOS up, but would I just up two Ethernet cards and a CAT5 to transfer them using something like Norton Ghost? As you can tell, I am not a network expert by far.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

The only way I know how to do somehting like that would be to take an app like DriveImagePro, with network support, image HDD x and send it to HDD y over your network. I know the newest version of DriveImagePro supports this. Just be forewarned that you might have alot of problems with the OS's if both the machines aren't similar.

 

[Santa]

Easiest way is to take the source Hard Drive out of one system and place it dangling off of the Secondary channel on the destination computer and image the drive over to the destionation Hard Drive.

Much faster.. less headaches..

 

[TheOmegaCode]

<< Easiest way is to take the source Hard Drive out of one system and place it dangling off of the Secondary channel on the destination computer and image the drive over to the destionation Hard Drive.

Much faster.. less headaches.. >>


yeah, but you can't just copy *.* from DOS prompt, can you?

 

[Garion]

You can't do a DOS copy any more, but you can use something like DriveImage or Ghost to make a perfect mirror copy of the drive. It is, unfortunately, far too easy to mess it up, so I'd burn a copy of your critical data, in any case.

And, yes, Ghost does support imaging drives across the network - There's a boot disk creator program available with it that does a pretty fair job. Probably not available in the free version, however.

You really can't do ANYTHING on your computer without some kind of an OS, even if it is just good 'ole DOS booting off of a floppy disk. Not complex, but it lets you get the basics done of logging into a network, mapping a drive and running a drive imaging application.

- G