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Hi all, I am considering installing a dual boot W2K/WXP system on my laptop. I have an existing accounts configuration and domain membership that I would like to keep. My only possibility so far would be to clone my system partition with ghost and upgrade the cloned partition. However, I do not consider this option as I have many installed applications. Also, I don't want to create a second machine account on the domain... Is there anyway to clone or restore after installation the domain membership/accounts ? I know how to restore the system ID using "newsid" from sysinternals (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtml) but that's not enough to clone my domain membership and security accounts settings. Thanks for your help. GSA

Upgrading is what I want to avoid for evident reasons, I tried it already this way and it works but I have no way to really clean up corrctly W2K and upgrade it to some clean XP... I already tried but it's all messed up after that, my XP doesn't work so well. I'd like to track down the necessary SAM information to replicate the SID and accounts IDs from one OS to the other to have the two OSs appearing to be the exact same machine (except from the OS version). GS

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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. The XP migration wizard is only there to transfer "simple" user parameters and preferences. It will not clone your SID nor your domain membership etc.. My question is still open. GS