Re: [foxboro] Ghost

Your luck with Ghosting dissimilar machines may vary.
Had quite a lot of luck myself with that. ;-))
A very important showstopper is the controller the "boot" device is on.
The difference between SCSI and IDE is obvious but more subtle differences 
between SCSI controllers (even members of the 2940 familly) can be 
troublesome.
Not to mention that older systems had a 2940 DUAL and now the systems are 
shipped with a totally other brand.

IDE can cause headaches too where you have ATA33, 66 ,100 ,133 standards not 
to mention SATA all of which can give problems when using each other's 
drivers to boot from.

Usually when you get past this section you can at least boot the system and 
modify or update  your drivers.
My experience with Win2K and XP is NOT that good. All of the post ME platforms 
decide at the beginning to switch from BIOS access to the boot disk to 
loading specific device drivers to access the drives. That is why most boxes 
at least start to boot until you load these drivers.

Windows 98 was not nearly that picky I remember. Ah those where the days...

Have fun anyway.

Regards

Ron Deen
Invensys

On Monday 22 November 2004 17:01, Marr, Bill wrote:
> Robert:
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> in our experience here, we have never successfully transferred a GHOST =
> image from an NT machine to a dissimilar NT machine.  You might have =
> more luck with XP or WIN2K since the plug and play capability tends to =
> accomodate driver differences.
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> You didn't specify the dissimilarities - so this is a generic comment =
> based on our experience with NT to date.
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> i'd be interested in the experience of others in this regard
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> Bill Marr
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