How to create a single XP Image for diffrent Machine models.

[Newbie]

Hi,
I am having diffrent Dell Machines & would like to create
a single XP Image which should be hardware independent. (I
am looking to deploy same image on Dell Optiplex Machines
GX110,GX 150, GX 240, etc). Can any one help me in knowing
how to acheive this ? When i created an image it works on
one model but the system crashed when deployed on other
model. I am able to create same using Windows 2000 & it
works fine.

thanks,
Sagar.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

Hi,
I am having diffrent Dell Machines & would like to create
a single XP Image which should be hardware independent. (I
am looking to deploy same image on Dell Optiplex Machines
GX110,GX 150, GX 240, etc). Can any one help me in knowing
how to acheive this ? When i created an image it works on
one model but the system crashed when deployed on other
model. I am able to create same using Windows 2000 & it
works fine.

thanks,
Sagar.

I am sorry to inform you that what you want to do is illegal.
Or, at least, Microsoft considers it illegal, and it has designed
Windows XP to thrwart efforts such as yours. Microsoft
wants you to buy a license for each installed copy of its
operating systems. I know that there is such thing as a
"laboratory version" of XP which allows the copy to be run
on an unlimited number of machines within one laboratory
(such as a university teaching lab), but you must prove that
will be used that way and it is not cheap. If you want more
information, perhaps to allow you to use one copy on many
identically-configured machines, try another newsgroup.
Most of the really knowledgeable people in this newsgroup
don't want to offend Microsoft. Try newsgroups with
"hardware" or "storage" or "dell" or "homebuilt" in their
names.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

you must use trial and error to install on multiple
machines and each time you determine which drivers were
needed then put the drivers in a folder map the setup so
it knows where the drivers are sysprep it and try again.
it takes a long time and dell packs there drivers in
messed up ways good luck.

 

[Star Fleet Admiral Q]

"Duh" - "Volume Licensing" allows the OP to do exactly what they are
asking - totally within the "EULA" for this version. As for the OP's
problem, trial and error or creating an image without any drivers for the
uncommon hardware, and allowing the image to install the drivers based on
the hardware would be in order.