ghost

[Masterpjz9]

I am using Ghost PE 2002. I want to backup my win xp home installation (i am going to do a clean install before ghosting it) on a CD-RW. I am just going to restore it on one computer only. Do I have to reset the SID? How?

 

[Seegee]

I don't mean to sound stupid, but what is SID?

 

[barclajo]

Use sysprep

 

[Masterpjz9]

how exactly do i use sysprep?

 

[druss]

I have used Ghost2001pe and Ghost2002pe to create images of XP Pro and have never reset a SID, whatever that is...
I think the only real difference between the two versions of Ghost is that 2002 can image XP NTFS (v5) partition and it requires you to input the serial number for Ghost.

SID is the system identification number that gets generated for a particular computer. I just did a search on Google and found the microsoft site talking about this.

If you are going to put the image onto the same computer then you shouldn't need to change the SID. I have an image of Win 2000 and XP Pro for my computer (just incase I didn't like XP, I could reimage back to Win2000) and haven't run into any problems.

 

[anouke]

you really only need to worry about sid when you are in a networked environment like active directory services, then it is very important that if you use ghost you always run ghstwalk to generate a new sid.

 

[Netwrkengeer]

And you only need to reset the sid if the machines are networked and on the same subnet, and you can DL a prog. called newsid to do this.