🚀 go-pugleaf

It's 09 Jul 98  04:27:29,
We'll return to mkruk@netcom.ca and All's
discussion of NT Workstation disk image

 mk> I have had success in doing so using Powerquest's Drive Image but
 mk> there seems to be a trick ...

 mk> <soapbox out>
 mk> You need a DOS partition, i.e. multi-boot.
 mk> <soapbox put away>

I've got it working with Ghost (any version 3.1 up tested).  No extra
partitions needed, just a DOS boot floppy with Ghost on it.  FYI, my
example involves servers, but is fundamentally the same.

One other variation I use is removeable hard drive bays and "pre
ghosting" the boot drive to a spare, so if the boot drive fails, simply
turn the server off, swap drives and turn it back on.  5 minutes (most
of which is spent waiting for NT to load :) ), and you're back in
business. :-)  Disk geometry isn't a problem with this method either.

 mk> I have heard that there are "SID" programs that will also correct this
 mk> problem and perhaps someone can offer information on this as I have
 mk> heard little else.

SIDs are not a problem in the case of backup images, the workstation
will simply continue as though nothing happened.  If it's a member of a
domain, and the backup is "oldish" (more than a few days), you may have
to remove the workstation from the domain and rejoin it, because the
domain SID is out of sync with the server.

. Transwhateverism is no big deal, unless you are a shrink.
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