Ghost with multible hardware config.

[lilodiddy]

I'm chewing on the fact of ordering Symantec ghost corporate software and want to know if we can use a image (XP PRO)with various pc's with different hardware configuration. If anyone can answer that or add any issues on this software, I would appreciate it. thanks

 

[wolluf]

Depends how different the hardware is. You've effectively got the problem of moving a hard drive to a (number of)different machine(s). This sometimes works - ie, XP boots and sorts out the driver issues (usually after a number of reboots) - sometimes doesn't (then repair reinstall will usually fix it - but you've effectively lost most of the advantage of imaging if you need to do that). If motherboards use same chipset, think that's definite advantage.

I'd also run sysprep on the machine to be imaged before imaging (so each imaged machine will run a mini-setup when you start it - detects plug and play, you can supply the XP key for that machine, machine name, workgroup/domain, gives it new SID).

 

[mtktech]

I was going to ask this exact same question. My biggest hangup is most PC's have different chipsets. I've found many responses like yours Wolluf, doing a repair install after installing the image usually fixes this problem. How stable is this compared to a clean install?