Re: Replacing Hard drive

It may sound complicated but once you start actually doing it the procedure
is pretty straightforward.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca


Daniel- Sydney wrote:
Thanks to all for your advice but I think it is too prone to probelms
and to me doing the wrong thing,

thanks

"KEKA" wrote:

First and foremost, your version of Ghost must be able to access
the media you saved the image file(s) on.

If he was able to access the media to create the image he will be
able to access that same media to restore the image.

If the laptop is in XP NTFS format (doubtful on a factory laptop),
your version of Ghost has to be able to create an XP version of
NTFS (NTFS version 3) partition for restoration. There also may a
question of the MFT and MBR restoration in some cases with older
versions of Ghost regarding XP and its version of NTFS.

My 2 year old Compaq came with XP installed on an NTFS partition.
Acer is one of the few OEM's that installs XP on FAT32 partitions
from the factory. If the OP has Ghost 2003 NTFS is not an issue.


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