XPe cloning (using Microsoft Cloning stuff or Nortons Ghost)

[heath holcomb]

What is the best/fastest/easiest way to clone an XPe image.

I don't want to have to manualy partition, format, and write the MBR
(bootprep) for each hard drive. I've been looking at Microsoft cloning
stuff, but I says nothing about automaticaly partitioning, formating and
writeing the MBR the target hard disk.

I know Norton did at one time had a program that resets the SID. Is Nortons
Ghost eaiser to use?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi,

You can always use diskpart /s script.txt to erase partition, set active
hdd.
Also you can use format with /y switch to automate formatting of partitions
you want.
For copy you can use xcopy or some extraction utility it is up to you.

And you can put all that in some batch file. (there won't be any questions
asked during all this phases)

Simple and efficient.

Regards,
Slobodan

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[KM]

Norton Ghost is a good choice for cloning.

You can also look at the diskpart/format/compress/etc. utility set to
automate target storage partitioning, formating, compressing.

Also, Sdi2hd.exe tool may help you if you can boot from DOS floppy on
target:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/htm
l/cdtsksdidataextractiontoolusage.asp.
Or use Sdimgr if you can boot WinPE off CD-ROM on target.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

What is the best/fastest/easiest way to clone an XPe image.

I don't want to have to manualy partition, format, and write the MBR
(bootprep) for each hard drive. I've been looking at Microsoft cloning
stuff, but I says nothing about automaticaly partitioning, formating and
writeing the MBR the target hard disk.

I know Norton did at one time had a program that resets the SID. Is Nortons
Ghost eaiser to use?

Norton Ghost is top dog still in their field, the DOS client is basic,
but does exactly what you need very well.... it also comes with ghost
walker to change the SID. Volume licencing is a couple of $ a copy....