[dba-Tech] Security measures

IIRC there is a utility that comes with Ghost for changing the GUID. I think
you have to dig through the CD or manual to discover it though!?!

John B.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H
> Tapia
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures
>
>
> Steven W. Erbach wrote:
>
> > Francisco,
> >
> >
> >>>It's quite a bit
> >
> > easier this way cuz you can just take your corrupted OS dump the image
> > on it placing you back before the patch was installed. <<
> >
> > And that's where I thought a cloned drive would be simpler yet.
> Granted, you
> > don't have multiple image backups. But for ease of
> get-up-and-go, a cloned
> > drive wins hands down, I'd say.
> >
> > Thanks for the extra details about OE. Very persuasive arguments.
> >
> > Regards,
>
> you're right about saving time.. hands down you have very little
> downtime.  (I keep a ghost bootable cd just to speed up my rebuild time
> ;o)).  The only issue I see, and it's really MS's fault for doing this,
> is that when  you load win2k or XP for that matter, it collects a guid
> representation of your hdd and stores it in the registry.  One time when
>   I first ghosted w/ win2k I could not for the life of me figure out why
> the loaded drive was reading 10gig and the backup drive was reading
> 40...  low and behold the problem was attributed to win2k reading this
> guid and even tho the original drive was jumped as a slave, it became
> the primary C:... very odd.  So to fix this you'd have to first go into
> the registry and select HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and
> delete the guid for the C: drive... then on a reboot you'll see that
> they are recognized as jumped.
>
>
> --
> -Francisco
>
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