Recent content by oppie007

Try reading this Microsoft article: How to Move a Windows 2000 Installation to Different Hardware http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;249694& It says, in part: "Windows Backup (Ntbackup.exe) can merge differences in hardware configuration information between a source...

See my discussion of this in the FAQs: How can I use an external USB hard drive to image a system? http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=531&sfid=3134

Has anyone tried Dantz Retrospect® for this? (www.dantz.com). I have no experience with it, but they seem to have some cool ideas, like: Retrospect recognizes identical files on one or more computers and backs up just one copy. This could save a tone of traffic. Most of those servers probably...

Carefully read about using Ghost here: http://ghost.radified.com/ I think your problem is that you did not type in a new filename. However, that is a bad thing to do. As Ghost will not remember it. Instead, use the -auto switch which will tell Ghost to create the 2nd thru nth file names - which...

Here is what I would do. Assuming that the machine to be backed up can be taken offline. (Backup should take less than an hour). 1) Buy Norton System Works Pro 2003 for about $18 (check Pricewatch). Be sure to get a 1 year license and not the 90 day version. Get the Pro version for the...