Ghosting Problems

[Guest]

I recently ghosted a Win2k disk from a desktop, over a network to a laptop.
When I went to start up the laptop it gets to the windows screen with the
progress bar (where you can enter safe mode, ect) and it hangs up. I am
curious if anyone knows of what I can do to get it to finish booting, or if
it is even worth the trouble.

 

[Leythos]

I recently ghosted a Win2k disk from a desktop, over a network to a laptop.
When I went to start up the laptop it gets to the windows screen with the
progress bar (where you can enter safe mode, ect) and it hangs up. I am
curious if anyone knows of what I can do to get it to finish booting, or if
it is even worth the trouble.

Since the hardware is completely different you have little hope of
getting it to boot properly.

In rare cases, if you uninstall all of the devices, video, printers,
nic, etc... then run a SYSPREP, ghost the image, and then restore to
another system you MAY be able to run it.

 

[Colon Terminus]

Boot your laptop from your Win2K CD. Proceed through the install process
unil it "Discovers" an existing install of Win2k and offers you the
opportunity to "Repair" it. Choose "Repair". There's a small chance that it
might be successful.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

You cannot install Win2K on one computer, transfer the hard drive
image to a new computer, and reasonably expect it to work, unless the
two computers are _identical_.

Normally, unless the new motherboard is virtually identical to the
old one (same chipset, IDE controllers, etc), you'll most likely need
to perform a repair (a.k.a. in-place upgrade) installation, at the
very least (and don't forget to reinstall any service packs and
subsequent hot fixes):

How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade of Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q292175

What an In-Place Win2K Upgrade Changes and What It Doesn't
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q306952

If that fails:

How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q249694&ID=KB;EN-US;Q249694


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[Guest]

I have had it work with two different types of computers before, you just end
up having to reinstall new drivers because windows installs default drivers
if any. In this case I tried a repair, but it wasn't that critical so I
didn't spend too much time on it, just reinstalled.

 

[Ed Siff]

The problem is that the controllers are different, which they weren't on the
ones that worked. There is a way, using sysprep, to make sure most
controllers are available but even so we've never been successful ghosting a
pc image to a laptop. There's just too many hardware differences.

Ed