sysprep

swinnie · 6 Oct 2008 at 22:35

Hi Guys

I have two identical laptops that I need to rebuild this Saturday for a friend. I want to build one, and build an image of the laptop to build the other one, and for keep the image incase anything goes wrong.

Can anyone tell me how to use sysprep, it's been a long time since I have used it.

It is XP Home, if that makes any difference.

Thanks in Advance

bledd · 7 Oct 2008 at 10:25

just use acronis true image to save an image, then restore it to laptop 2, and rename the computer, should all work fine

install xp sp3, and don't supply a key when installing (so you can enter if after)

Azraeluk · 7 Oct 2008 at 10:46

renaming will do so much, but you will still have duplicate SID's if you network them together at any point.

bledd · 7 Oct 2008 at 11:01

from what i read in another thread on here, xp doesn't seem to care..

but you can run this tool to generate a new one

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897418.aspx

swinnie · 7 Oct 2008 at 15:19

Thanks bledd and Azraeluk. I will do some digging.

Yeah, I read that XP doesn't care about SIDs.

I have integrated SP3 into an XP Disk (which is brilliant - saves the 1 hour of Windows Update!) so when it comes to inserting the key, just hit next?

bledd · 7 Oct 2008 at 15:32

yeah, then click 'no', like in vista