Newbie here. Norton Ghost Problem

[Liquidblaze 0]

ok, first of all. Hello everyone.

 

The problem i am having is i have ran norton ghost to make a sector copy of my harddrive. I had an 8gb and copied it to a 40gb (this is for my computer), it was successful and am running that harddrive as i type. so now my friend's computer has messed up and i wanted to do the same thing. I built this computer for her. I now have copied an image from my original hard drive to her 40gb harddrive. it works in my pc perfectly but when i put it in her pc it will only go to the screen in XP that asks if you want to boot windows normally, last known good configuration, safe mode. I can choose any of these and it just reboots. But again it works perfectly in my pc. Is there a hardware issue and if there is, is there a way I can fix this?

 

Thanks

[Sampson 0]

When you ghost to another drive, XP contains the configuration or the Hardware Allocation Layer of that specific computer. Unless the computer you are trying to use the ghosted drive with is an exact duplicate XP will give you the message you received, but more often than not, it will simply not boot. You can try to Repair the ghosted copy by booting from your CD with your Windows XP system disk. If you are lucky, and several hours later, you may succeed.

[shassouneh 0]

Originally posted by Sampson:

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When you ghost to another drive, XP contains the configuration or the Hardware Allocation Layer of that specific computer. Unless the computer you are trying to use the ghosted drive with is an exact duplicate XP will give you the message you received, but more often than not, it will simply not boot. You can try to Repair the ghosted copy by booting from your CD with your Windows XP system disk. If you are lucky, and several hours later, you may succeed.

 

Sorry to be a smart arse here. But a quick correction. hardware abstraction layer (rather than allocation).

 

Also what Sampson said is true. Windows XP (and even to some extend 2000) does retain your hardware setup in the ghost image, so you would have to get around that. You COULD try a repair, but since that replaces critical system files, any updates or service packs you had installed would have to be re-done.

 

 

[stevewa 0]

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.