Install Win2K over XP via ghost

[pixboy]

I have a small lab setup at home, and I have one desktop-class computer that I've used to install Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional and create Ghost images of them for redeployment. Primarily, I wanted to save having to reinstall everything from scratch, so I created a master image of the two OSs after running sysprep. That way, I can blast the image back onto the machine, reboot, let it go through the mini-setup (completely unattended setup -- very nice) and then have a ready-to-go machine at the end.

Last night, I was playing with some things and wanted to put the Win2K image back on the machine. It's got one 20GB drive, so either image is intended to use the entire drive. When I put the Win2K image back on the PC and let it reboot, it kept coming up in XP. I tried running FDISK and removing the partition, then putting the image back on, but XP still came back. (It's like the OS that just wouldn't go away.)

I suspect I may have to format the drive first before putting the image onto it, but haven't quite figured out how to do that short of running the Win2K setup from the CD and letting it format. (I haven't tried using format from a 98 setup. I suspect it wouldn't work anyway, since it's NTFS.)

Anybody got any ideas? I'd love to make swapping back and forth between the two OSs easy. I'm using Ghost 7.5, BTW.

Thanks!

 

[wolluf]

You are sure its the 2k image you put back on - not the XP by mistake. If you used fdisk to remove partition.... (also, ghost replaces what's there anyway - gives you a warning about that - well ghost 2003 does - isn't 7.5 the corporate version?)

 

[amubis]

It really sounds as if you have god your images mixed up as wolluf said. double check the image with ghost explorer that will tell you what image your using.

 

[pixboy]

OK, so don't I feel like an idiot ... I just decided to check in Ghost Explorer and I see that I somehow overwrote my Win2K image with my XP image. That would certainly do it. I do have a Win2K image of the workstation before sysprep-ing it, so at least I have someplace to start.

Thanks, guys!