Using GHOST images to restore from??

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BertieBigBollox

Bit of a newbie question here....

Can I take a ghost image of a machine and then restore it to another
machine in these circumstances?

1.) The second machine is identical to the first one. (When I do this
using two identical Dell edge servers it restores OK, starts up and
then comes up with new hardware etc.).

2.) Restore an image from a completely different machine and hardware
setup. (Restores but then core dumps on boot).
 
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DL

2) If you restore to a PC with different hw, at the very least you would
have to undertake a repair installation of win, and install the new sys
chipset and other drivers.
1) I believe bios and chipset revisions would have to be the same, maybe
more

and of course there maybe problems if win is Dell OEM
 
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Alex Moreau

Bit of a newbie question here....

Can I take a ghost image of a machine and then restore it to another
machine in these circumstances?

1.) The second machine is identical to the first one. (When I do this
using two identical Dell edge servers it restores OK, starts up and
then comes up with new hardware etc.).

Don't see any problem with this, if the machines are identical.
2.) Restore an image from a completely different machine and hardware
setup. (Restores but then core dumps on boot).

This could be a problem. As 'Bertie' said, at least a repair and new system
and device drivers. But my experience has been that such restores, while
they may work (hit and miss), result in poor performance and nusiance
issues. In the case of #2, re-installing is the better solution.

That said, I have to put forth my opinion of Norton (Symantec) Ghost, of
which I was a user for many years. It was the only program that Norton
(Symantec) didn't screw up. That is, until Ghost 2003 and up came along.
Then, when they bought Drive Image and incorporated D.I. into Ghost, Ghost
joined the ranks of other Norton (Symantec) bloat & crashware.

Have you tried Acronis True Image? It works as advertised with none of the
Norton issues. Another good imaging program that also does partitioning and
other HD operations is BING (Bootit Next Generation). Many people swear by
BING, and I own a copy myself. I, however, prefer True Image. I like the
interface and it serves all my needs (does not partition, though).
There are free trials of each at their respective web sites.
 
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BertieBigBollox

Alex said:
Don't see any problem with this, if the machines are identical.

Found the problem with this. I didnt notice they werent quite
identical. Original machine was a Dell Poweredge 650 and second one was
a 750.

By just getting the right drivers for the 750 and reinstalling them it
now works fine.
This could be a problem. As 'Bertie' said, at least a repair and new system
and device drivers. But my experience has been that such restores, while
they may work (hit and miss), result in poor performance and nusiance
issues. In the case of #2, re-installing is the better solution.

Yeh. No way is this going to work I reckon.
 
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Badger

Found the problem with this. I didnt notice they werent quite
identical. Original machine was a Dell Poweredge 650 and second one was
a 750.

By just getting the right drivers for the 750 and reinstalling them it
now works fine.


Yeh. No way is this going to work I reckon.
I restore Acronis images to different hardware and Chips sets (I have
problems changing for Intel to AMD) but to be successful you should use
the Microsoft sysprep utility before imaging and if it blue screens on
startup I use a live cd (Bart that I built) that allows me to edit the
registry, and I delete the HKLM/System/Controlset/Services key then I do
a repair installation and it works but I need to reinstall all the apps
that need services running like Avast and Zonealarm Hope that helps
 

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