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ok, just to copy it you dont need sysprep AT ALL..you just need norton ghost.
You just put the new hard drive in the system..boot with the norton floppy...then do "disk to disk" copy....very simple. (BUT....make SURE..the old drive is the SOURCE and the new one is the DESTINATION...get that backward and youll ghost the blank over top of the old one and youll have 2 blanks...ouch----yes I have done it, once, lol)
Then when it is done, shut the computer off....take out the old hard drive and put in the new one....usually I work with the new one for a few days to make sure everything is straight (it always is) before I format and reuse the old hard drive.
OR..what you COULD do is use norton to make a cd backup...by doing the "disk to image" deal and choose the cdrw as the destination....it'll usually take 2 disks at least....BUT...if you do that you have a nice little backup....then you could just slap the new drive in, take the old out....boot with norton floppies and restore "from image" and point it to the images on the backup cd you just made.
Sysprep is used when you are going to do something like build 10 systems with the same motherboard etc.....what you do is build the one system all the way up with drivers, patches, software etc etc..get it running like you want it...THEN you run sysprep and what sysprep does is strip away the product key and some other info then it shuts down the computer.
THEN what you usually would do at that point is make the 'restore cd's' as I described (usually you also put a bootable floppy on the image using norton ghost)......so after you make those cd's you build the rest of your systems and after you slap the hardware together you just boot off those restore cd's and it "re-images" them, drivers, patches, software and all...saves lots of time....the real trick is that when they boot that first time it goes into the microsoft 'OOBE' thingy...the "out of box experience" just like a new Dell etc. So on that first boot you hafta type in the product key etc.
Thats really the main reason to use sysprep---so that you can enter the correct product keys....now back with Win98 etc you just went into the registry and changed the key...but with XP I dont think you can.
Ok, to make a long story short, you DONT NEED sysprep just to ghost over to a larger hard drive....you just need norton ghost....very easy, takes like 3 minutes usually, lol.
(I wouldnt use any of the gay "copy" software that comes with WD, Maxtor, or seagate...but you can if you enjoy typing help posts, cuz you surely will need to type one after that, lol)
JP
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