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how to image a winxp drive?

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by kyleknicks

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I am constantly installing and removing new software from my winxp pro system therefore i would like to find a workable soluation to imaging my drive so that after installing something i dont like, i could easily re-image the drive. but it seems like XP is very very picky about things. I used to use TakeTwo from Roxio when i was using win98. what a simple process! i've tried DriveImage recently but it didn't work that great... ran into errors when re-imaging. can someone give me some pointers or guidance on getting this task done? Are there particular things about XP pro that would prevent me from doing imaging that was sooooo easy in win98? I have 2 HD's, one is 80gig and the other 10gig, therefore would be using the 10gig to store the image file of a clean XP install from the 80gig.

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by ann777

The best software for imaging is Norton Ghost 2002. It works on all versions of Windows and that includes WinXP (although I have not personally imaged my XP Pro computer).

There should not be any issues with other imaging software either -- UNLESS the software was written before WinXP -- in which case, I would understand the software being flaky with that version of Windows. You cannot expect software programmers to take the future OSes into consideration when programming these things.

Make sure your software is WinXP compatible and check out the manufacturer's website and see if you can get any free upgrades/patches to the version you have, and go from there.

by b_pope

For sure Norton Ghost, but make sure your using Fat32 not NTFS your life will be so much easier.

by samtmng

I have use Norton Ghost 2002 to image my Windows XP Home edition, its work fine but there is the limitation of 2GB which mean you need to continue with another image namely image_1, image_2 and so on. But it work and it should be work on XP Pro too.

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