I should add: This is a fairly advanced process to
pull off, so if you aren't an expert in Windows- leave
it to someone who is.

On the upside- if it doesn't work, you still have a
backup and the hard drive!

Tom Burrell

--- Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Can it be done?
> 
> Situation:
> Windows XP Pro laptop with NTFS partitions on 20 GB
> hard drive.
> Would like to replace 20 GB with 60 GB drive and
> have all original
> applications, documents etc... transferred.
> 
> Problem:
> Windows Admins (I'm a UNIX admin) attempted to
> "Ghost" the system but
> apparently couldn't due to the NTFS.   Some Googling
> about Ghost and
> NTFS does seem to indicate there are issues doing
> that but I don't know
> enough about "Ghost" to speak intelligently on that.
> 
> Possible Solution:
> Backup the 20 GB drive using NBU 5.1.
> Install the 60 GB drive and let them do fresh XP Pro
> install.
> Install the NBU client.
> Restore the backup from the 20 GB to the 60 GB.
> 
> It seems this might cause issues due to sizes etc...
> that may be stored
> in system config files.   I'm wondering if the above
> would work or if it
> would fail miserably due to this or other things I
> don't know about in
> Windows.   I know enough about Windows to be
> dangerous but not enough to
> insure all the registry and other information is
> correct for the 60 GB
> drive.
> 
> If I couldn't do a full restore without mucking up
> the config is there
> any suggestion as to partial restores that would
> bring in my
> applications without having to reinstall each of
> them?
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