[dba-Tech] Windows XP repair on a Ghosted drive

Erwin,

Hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean by "at windows level."  When I run
Ghost from Windows, I tell it which drive to ghost and then it reboots
the PC into DOS to actually perform the ghosting.  I have run into an
issue on my workstation after Ghosting where upon re-starting Windows
XP Pro goes to a blue screen with a system halt message.  Sometimes
rebooting multiple times doesn't work so that I have to put in my old
version of SysInternals ERD Commander to get Windows to get its undies
unbundled.  It's a mystery to me.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI
http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com

On 2/14/06, Erwin Craps - IT Helps <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote:
> A small note on Partition Magic from Symantec.
> I recently bought it, to make some changes on my home pc disks.
> But it seems that Partition Magic does not support dynamic disks.
> So it it's quiet useless to me now....
>
> I also ordered Ghost, but its not deliverd yet..
> I suspect that that will work with dynamic disks because it works at
> windows level?
>
> Erwin
>
>
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> Onderwerp: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows XP repair on a Ghosted drive
>
> Steve,
> Sorry, I missed this completely.
>
> The biggest difference between cloning and ghosting is that you're
> typically using ghosting as a safety measure of to quickly load various
> configurations on testing machines (well - at least I am).
>
> When you're cloning you're mass installing on new machines.
>
> You're often not going to get the luxury of doing all of that prep work
> on a dying machine because when the HD dies (or is dying) you probably
> don't want to rely on prepping and ghosting it at that point.
>
> Even so I think you would agree that it is much faster to ghost and use
> the repair method as you did to recover the OS and apps than it is to
> reinstall it all from scratch.
>
> I have heard of another way to do this that involved deleting the WinXP
> product installation key but I can't find it now. Anyway it basically
> just prompted you for the new ID# and you continue on as before. Maybe
> it was some hack that got taken down but its worth googling around for.