stevewa

thank you for posting the info on [censored] diskcopy. I used CompuApps DriveWizard Pro last night to mirror an 80GB hard drive and it took 11 hours. (DWP runs inside of windows, maybe that is why) I tried [censored] diskcopy this afternoon, and it estimates it will take 1 hour 15 minutes. What a relief! It creates a bootable cd-rom so you mirror your drive without being in windows. The only compliant I have is that they make you put the source disk on ide primary slot 0 and the target disk on ide sceondary slot 0. IDE sec slot 0 is usually where the cd rom is and I had to physically reomve it, change the jumper, put it on ide sceon slot 1 as slave, and then change the bios to recognize the cd-rom on that postion, and then to boot from the cd-rom, but it is still better than waiting 11 hours for a mirror to finish.

you also have to remove the windows xp registration key and enter the new key for her software so your windows updates work correctly, otherwise microsoft will detect that her computers is a copy of your computer and you will be fined for software piracy. to do this, you have to take her copied hard drive (after you get it to boot into windows) and create a folder in c: (assuming windows runs from c drive.) Name the folder sysprep. now get the original cd from the xp installation, and in the folder on the cd called support, open the deploy.cab file and copy those files to the folder c:\sysprep. when that is all done, open c:\sysprep\sysprep.exe and click "seal the computer for your customer". this will go through and reset the licnese key ( removing your license key from the windows installation). then it will shutdown the computer. when it boots back up, it will go into a mini setup version of windwos setup where you can set the languauge and time zone, and then you will be able to enter the registration key and give her computer a name.