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Ghosting XP

bman · 2006-07-28 14:24:08

Whenever I ghost this PC at work it still remembers the number of days left until it Windows XP should be activated (registered). So it started at 60 days the first time we installed it and its now down to 42 even though we've ghosted it a number of times. Does ghosting the hard drive not mean that everything is…

28-07-2006 2:24pm

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Whenever I ghost this PC at work it still remembers the number of days left until it Windows XP should be activated (registered). So it started at 60 days the first time we installed it and its now down to 42 even though we've ghosted it a number of times. Does ghosting the hard drive not mean that everything is overwritten with the image file? Is there any way around this so that it returns to 60 days after each time?

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#2 28-07-2006 2:47pm

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use sysprep before creating the ghost image

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#3 28-07-2006 3:34pm

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Put the ghost image on, activate it, then create a new ghost image. I'd imagine that the activation entry knows what date it was originally installed first, rather than just having a number of days since it was installed

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