Ghosting Windows XP

[Mystical]

I had this problem for a week now....I'm using ghost 7.5 Corporate
edition for some basic ghosting. I want to deploy Windows XP on
different computers with different configuration. I don't expect
everything to work fine from the beginning but DAMN this is not
working at all.
I cloned an image from a computer running NTFS...and after doing all
the sysprep proccess if tried to clone it to another computer. If
there is a kinda simmilar computer everything works....exept some
drivers (normal)....but if I try to clone it to a totally different
computer it doesn't work at all.
The cloning proccess is fine....but after reboot the system eithere
gets stuck right before loading the graphical interface or....keep
rebooting itself.
I need to do this as soon as possible so any help will be appreciated!

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

Dude, NTx has always been sensitive to hardware changes. I would only
trust a clone to an identical or nearly identical machine.

hth

 

[Airman Basic]

Check here:
http://ghost.radified.com/

 

[Scott Eaton]

I've ghosted thousands of NT/Win2K/XP stations and
hundreds of servers. I've learned basically that you have
have the same chipset, and same system partition for this
to work. The driver used to access your SCSI, RAID, or IDE
interface must work with the new hardware, or you'll get a
BSOD. Unlike Win95/98/ME, the former operating systems
need the previous installed driver to mount the drive
after ghosting.

Video, NIC's, sound cards, etc', can be usually be
redetected.

However, NT/Win2K/XP must be able to boot with the
registered driver that enables hard drive access to access
the system folder. I've cloned Win2K and XP installs from
MSI KT133 AMD based workstations to much newer KT400 Asus
based workstations with little issue. Why? Because Via
uses a unified driver across their chipsets, and Intel
doesn't. A BX based Intel workstation cannot be cloned to
a 845 based workstation, or an 850 based to a 815 becuase
the chipset driver isn't compatible.