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[axslinger]

Greetings,

I am wondering if there is a way to have a hard drive partially set-up with Win98 so that when I put it in a PC and turn on the PC, it will start detecting hardware. I frequently have to do OS reloads and would like to have some sort of skeleton OS ready to be copied to another hard drive, mainly to save time.

One way I thought of was to go to a working Win 98 machine, start in safe mode, remove everything from the device manager, shut it down and use that drive as a master. But I'm skeptical as to whether or not it is 100% effective. Any ideas?

Brian [sig][/sig]

 

[TheRAt]

Hello Brian

I use Nortons Ghost to distribute an image across about 200 machines when they need software rebuilds.

What I do is:
1 Install everything I need to install
2 Then I go through and from the System control panel, I remove everything in the device manager that I would like to machine to re-detect.
3 Then I restart the computer with a dos floppt disk, and use Ghost to create and store an "image" on a network drive.
4 Anytime I need a fresh image to work on any machine, I use ghost again to put this on a new disk.

NB. My advantage is that all the workstations in any one lab are exactly the same (ie. identical hardware...) This makes life very easy...

Hope this helped...

B-) [sig]<p>AV<br><a href=mailto:tnedor@yahoo.com>tnedor@yahoo.com</a><br>[/sig]

 

[TheRAt]

Forgot to say... Try

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/index.html

for information on Ghost...

[sig]<p>AV<br><a href=mailto:tnedor@yahoo.com>tnedor@yahoo.com</a><br>[/sig]