db267 Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 (edited) CLONE WINDOWS XP/2000 INSTALLATIONS. A guide to cloning (backing-up) your XP/2000 installations using Linux. This will save you a lot of time next time you have to reinstall Windows. Interested then click here: The reason that this is so useful, is because: So, you install Windows. Now you have the difficult task of reinstalling and customizing, Microsoft Office, all of your third party software, such as, Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Virus protection, your printer drivers, etc, etc. This all takes a lot of time and effort, especially if you happen to have lost the disk that came with your printer that included the printer drivers. Even worse, you often find that the disk that came with your printer does not have the necessary Windows XP/2000 drivers. So, reestablishing a Windows system is a royal pain in the ass. In contrast, if you are satisfied with only partially accelerated video drivers, reestablishing Novelle SuSE 10.0, is pretty much all done in 30 or 40 minutes. However, if, for example, you have an ATI video card and wish to install the fully accelerated ATI drivers, this may take you forever, as the installation seems to have been deliberately sabotaged. On occasions, getting Windows back to the way it was, has taken all day (and sometimes longer). When people tell you how easy Windows is to install, they as lying by omission, as they omit to tell you that the install is just the beginning of reestablishing a Windows system. Quote from here: Have fun. Edited May 29, 2006 by fred666 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted May 29, 2006 Veteran Share Posted May 29, 2006 [Thread Moved from XP Client to Guides] Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587555552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellum Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 not to be rude or anything here, but can't you just use Acronis True Image? :blink: or some other software like that Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587555819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 not to be rude or anything here, but can't you just use Acronis True Image? :blink: or some other software like that This does seem like alot of work when Acronis True Image does the job just as well, probably quicker and with much less setting up invloved. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587558401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted May 30, 2006 Share Posted May 30, 2006 Or Ghost. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587558438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenDayPunk74 Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Or Ghost. Exactly what I do. Just got a new HD and used Ghost to transfer it over. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587559348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mujjuman Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 making an image of your HD after installing everything is SUCH a good idea. i did it twice already using Acronis True Image. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-587559594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
frbubba Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 A program I use which has saved me literally days of time is: dixmlsetup.exe. It's free too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-588137641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiftie Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 404 on the link.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/465354-clone-windows-xp2000-installations/#findComment-588137817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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