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Question about Ghost

  • 06-12-2007 3:55pm
    #1
    dave13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭


    Hi
    When creating a ghost Image does the image PC have to have the exact same spec as the destination PC's?
    I'm mainly asking if a different hard drive size is important, they would be the same model PC's with same graphics, sound and NIC's.

    Any experience with this?


Comments

  • #2
    auggie2k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭auggie2k


    It helps if it's the same computer, if it's a different computer... the registry can get messed up.


  • #3
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Different Hard drives sizes shouldn't make a difference provided that the image isn't larger than the destination drive. Edit: Also, just in case you're switching Hard Drive types, e.g. IDE to SATA, you need to make sure the SATA drivers are loaded into Windows before you make the image.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,562 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Most cloning programs will allow you to restore an image to the same size or bigger partition. But watch out different geometries or rounding to cylinders where on different drives a partition of say 20,000MB might be a few MB smaller or larger that you expect.

    the other way is to resize the partition afterwards

    in device manager you can remove the sata drivers and end up with generic drivers for the hard drive , you could try changing the chip set drivers to generic too, you can change back later

    If you change the PC type you can't change it back


  • #5
    dave13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭dave13


    Thanks for all that.
    The problem is I cant purchase the excat same PC we have at our DBR. I can purchase the same model, with everything the same except a smaller HD and a different processor. Just hoping a reference image from this will work.
    Sounds like it should


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