I am in the same boat with a new Lenovo laptop some where between China and Sterling Heights.
It might work, but you will have all new hardware, all new drivers, and different configuration. XP might plug and play okay, but now you have double the drivers and possibly an more bloated registry. I am pretty sure you will have to reactivate XP too. Not a big deal at all, just one more thing to do. I use the images for my data drives and restore those on the new PC, but I see this as an opportunity to get a cleaner registry, not load a few programs I no longer use, etc. BTW, I use DriveImage and I tested it this summer when my drive died. Worked great, but there were a couple of tense hours between the declaration of death and installing the new drive. <g> Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.rickschummer.com 586.254.2530 - office 586.254.2539 - fax -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 08:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NF] Using Norton Ghost to image onto replacement laptop (was Re:[NF] Installing a new HD in an old PC) Peter Hart wrote: > Hi all > Prosperous New Year > > I often perform this type of service for clients, Hard Disk Failures, > Virus's etc. > > If you want to use Ghost then make the new one the Master the old one > the Secondary (or stick it on the CD Cable as you won't be needing > that, booting from Floppy) > > When you have Ghosted the files, remove the old hard disk and > everything should work. > My laptop is on its last leg I believe, and I anticipate changing soon. It'd be great if the Ghost image backups I've made can simply go onto the new replacement laptop I plan to buy. Both operating systems (old and new) will be Win XP Pro. 2 questions: 1) Will Ghost work like this, or is it only for the same machine? 2) Should I order a plain jane vanilla PC (re: software-installed, not hardware) because it'll just be wiped out by the Ghost image? This is one of those scenarios where I've been using Ghost but have yet to try and restore from it. (Yeah, I know....<g>) tia! -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
