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Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home
What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans |
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New Orleans Novice wrote:
Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? If the hardware is close enough or through some manipulation via your imaging application or other means - you make whatever image with whatever applications you want and you store that on the network and apply it as needed. You may have to change product keys through some means if you are not using Volume License keys. With varying hardware - I would likely setup some sort of unattended installation method, perhaps combining it with imaging for groups of machines with identical hardware/period of time. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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New Orleans Novice wrote:
Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? If the hardware is close enough or through some manipulation via your imaging application or other means - you make whatever image with whatever applications you want and you store that on the network and apply it as needed. You may have to change product keys through some means if you are not using Volume License keys. With varying hardware - I would likely setup some sort of unattended installation method, perhaps combining it with imaging for groups of machines with identical hardware/period of time. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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"New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans I don't see why not, but you may need separate images for Dell and Compaq. We did pretty much the same thing with Norton Ghost. I would set up one PC with all the drivers and software installed, make a ghost image of it, then apply that image to however many of like blank PC's I had to do. The only thing I had to do to them after writing the image to them was to change the PC name before connecting to the internet. Of course, we had a business license with X number of installs per key. The only real problem I see would be applying the separate keys after the restore. Maybe someone has an idea on how to handle that aspect of it. -- SC Tom |
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"New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans I don't see why not, but you may need separate images for Dell and Compaq. We did pretty much the same thing with Norton Ghost. I would set up one PC with all the drivers and software installed, make a ghost image of it, then apply that image to however many of like blank PC's I had to do. The only thing I had to do to them after writing the image to them was to change the PC name before connecting to the internet. Of course, we had a business license with X number of installs per key. The only real problem I see would be applying the separate keys after the restore. Maybe someone has an idea on how to handle that aspect of it. -- SC Tom |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans I don't see why not, but you may need separate images for Dell and Compaq. We did pretty much the same thing with Norton Ghost. I would set up one PC with all the drivers and software installed, make a ghost image of it, then apply that image to however many of like blank PC's I had to do. The only thing I had to do to them after writing the image to them was to change the PC name before connecting to the internet. Of course, we had a business license with X number of installs per key. The only real problem I see would be applying the separate keys after the restore. Maybe someone has an idea on how to handle that aspect of it. -- SC Tom I meant to say "connecting to the network." Duh! -- SC Tom |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans I don't see why not, but you may need separate images for Dell and Compaq. We did pretty much the same thing with Norton Ghost. I would set up one PC with all the drivers and software installed, make a ghost image of it, then apply that image to however many of like blank PC's I had to do. The only thing I had to do to them after writing the image to them was to change the PC name before connecting to the internet. Of course, we had a business license with X number of installs per key. The only real problem I see would be applying the separate keys after the restore. Maybe someone has an idea on how to handle that aspect of it. -- SC Tom I meant to say "connecting to the network." Duh! -- SC Tom |
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I do *not* advise doing this at all.
"Close enough" is a term not often associated with computers. When the Windows OS is first installed, every component of the PC's hardware is detected and enumerated and virtually all PCs will be different enough to make the OS freeze completely or not load at all if you try to impose an OS that was installed on one machine to work on another. But if you reckon it's worth trying, go ahead - knock yourself out, as they say. Also, you *can* clone the HD on any PC at any point of the installation. So if you clone a HD as soon as installation is complete, "...before any drivers", etc., then, when the "clone" is restored then *that* will be the same state that will be restored. Think of cloning as taking a "snapshot" of a system. I think that is why they call it "drive imaging". == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans |
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XP Home Acronis True Image Home Cloning The HD
I do *not* advise doing this at all.
"Close enough" is a term not often associated with computers. When the Windows OS is first installed, every component of the PC's hardware is detected and enumerated and virtually all PCs will be different enough to make the OS freeze completely or not load at all if you try to impose an OS that was installed on one machine to work on another. But if you reckon it's worth trying, go ahead - knock yourself out, as they say. Also, you *can* clone the HD on any PC at any point of the installation. So if you clone a HD as soon as installation is complete, "...before any drivers", etc., then, when the "clone" is restored then *that* will be the same state that will be restored. Think of cloning as taking a "snapshot" of a system. I think that is why they call it "drive imaging". == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "New Orleans Novice" wrote in message ... Using XP Home and Acronis True Image Home What is the best method to install XP home or Proff each day on a new HD ? I buy used PC's with the legit 25 install key either for Home or Proff. Most are Dell or Compaq. Can Acronis True Image Home be used to clone the hard drive after the initial install before any program or drivers is added to it? Then use Acronis True Image Home to restore the XP Clone to the new HD ? Can the Cloned HD be restored on a new HD in a Dell or Compaq PC but not necessarily the same make and model PC ? Should the Acronis True Image Home be used to CLONE a HD in a Generic No Name PC for future RESTORE in a Dell or Compaq ? What would you do ? Thank you from New Orleans |
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