Upgrading from W2K to XP Pro

[Gavin Steiner]

I have a project booked to upgrade 20 W2k Workstations to XP SP2 on a
windows 2000 domain.

Half are identical machines with various software installed on each, and the
others are all different machines that obviously couldn't be CLONED as
easily.

I wanted to get others opinions on:

1) Should we wipe and load, or are in place upgrades from W2k to XP
generally flawless

2) Is it worth imaging on computer and pushing out to the other 9 using
ghost, or should they just be straight installs from a server point

3) Any other ideas to make this simpler?

We are fairly proficient with Group Policy as well.

Gavin

 

[Guest]

How could one ghost or miiror xp with 2000 installed.For ghost,you could
use XCOPY in xp,but that requires a clean formatted disk.If you format,with
a primary partition on clean disk,youd type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
D: being the new hd.Upgrading is ok,but microsoft suggest to always try a
clean install.

 

[Gavin Steiner]

I'm talking about wiping and reloading ONE machine, taking an image, and
then pushing that new image out to the rest.