I have 10 Dell Dimension 3100 workstations to deploy in the next week. The first thing I need to do is to clear off the unwanted partitions on the hard drive (don't know why Dell shipped them that way) and upgrade them all from XP Home to XP Pro (we have an open license for XP Pro, and it was more cost effective to do it this way). My question is, would it be better to accomplish this with the XP Pro install disk on each one, or get one system set up and then clone it? If I clone it, what should I use? I have a copy of Ghost 2003, but have not yet used it. Thanks.
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How to best clone XP workstations
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Ghost is a quick way - witha proviso that things can go pear shaped if the pc's have different components (chipset, video etc) .... but if they are the same, build one to how you like, clone and deploy and as they say Bob is yer mother's brother !!!!
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I use Ghost 2003 in conjunction with Netbootdisk. I store an source image along with Ghost 2003 on a network share. Netbootdisk is used to boot the machine to be cloned, log on to the network, run Ghost 2003 from the network share, and install the cloned image. Finally, rename the computer and join it to our domain. Ghost copies the entire physical disk so partitions on all machines are the same.
Don't fall in to the trap that this person apparently has.
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