I should add: This is a fairly advanced process to pull off, so if you aren't an expert in Windows- leave it to someone who is.
On the upside- if it doesn't work, you still have a backup and the hard drive! Tom Burrell --- Jeff Lightner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can it be done? > > Situation: > Windows XP Pro laptop with NTFS partitions on 20 GB > hard drive. > Would like to replace 20 GB with 60 GB drive and > have all original > applications, documents etc... transferred. > > Problem: > Windows Admins (I'm a UNIX admin) attempted to > "Ghost" the system but > apparently couldn't due to the NTFS. Some Googling > about Ghost and > NTFS does seem to indicate there are issues doing > that but I don't know > enough about "Ghost" to speak intelligently on that. > > Possible Solution: > Backup the 20 GB drive using NBU 5.1. > Install the 60 GB drive and let them do fresh XP Pro > install. > Install the NBU client. > Restore the backup from the 20 GB to the 60 GB. > > It seems this might cause issues due to sizes etc... > that may be stored > in system config files. I'm wondering if the above > would work or if it > would fail miserably due to this or other things I > don't know about in > Windows. I know enough about Windows to be > dangerous but not enough to > insure all the registry and other information is > correct for the 60 GB > drive. > > If I couldn't do a full restore without mucking up > the config is there > any suggestion as to partial restores that would > bring in my > applications without having to reinstall each of > them? > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - > [email protected] > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
