Win Doze Experts, Could use some help here..... Options

[Bleyseng]

Got a question...how can I copy the registry from one hard drive and install it on another so I can just copy all my programs/files onto the new hard drive?
And, where the heck is it? in System32?

I am installing a 60 gig hard drive on the laptop replacing a winnie 20 gig one.

[Gint]

QUOTE (ArtechnikA @ May 9 2005, 08:59 PM)

okay - is there a product that can do this from some company less evil than Symentec? the laptop (the one with the failing disk drive - yes - it must be an epidemic...) came installed with NAV and some other Norton cr*p and it was harder to get rid of than the last few viruses i've had to deal with! if i *do* have to use Ghost, can i at least install it WITHOUT LiveUpdate?  purging that was the worst of the nightmare because it flat lied to me... it *does* have a DVD writer and i have less than 9GB of stuff to transfer so in theory - if i can burn a DVD before the friggen drive goes Tango Uniform again - i shoud be okay.  can it Ghost to a network drive?  i've got 250G free on the fileserver...

Wow! This thread is everywhere. Times like these I'm glad I do Unix support.



Geoff,

You can ghost to another network client. Sounds like the way to go. When you get it all rebuilt, partition off a sepereate data drive. Then get a fresh snap with Ghost of your OS partition, then ghost your data partition. You can then occasionally update the partition images. Kinda like a backup.


Rich,

Yes. But it will take a little work on your part.

http://www.sysresccd.org/