Imaging Windows XP

Nope, I've done it and I haven't had any problems.

No issues... as long as the systems are identical... no problems, just as with 2k.

Only issue is make sure you do a sysprep on the system prior to imaging it or you will have to do the SID Program on the initial boot to create a unique SID for that pc.

Good luck.

Just a side note.

Your situation fits the intended purpose of the sysprep tool available from Microsoft.

You can setup a "reference" system, and run sysprep before imaging the PC.

Microsoft even has several pages of information on using the tool.

Chas

I will say that Ghost should work fine. But there are a few problems with it. First, on each PC you should run a SID scrubber, and M$ does not recommend any way except sysprep.
Other issues will be computername etc. All minor issues, but if you do not scrub the SID M$ will not support the PC's because they have found issues when many PC's have the same SID.

This works just fine. I do it almost daily. I'd say it works better with XP and you won't need to do a sysprep if you are running a Active Directory because the SSID is generated automatically when you join the domain. I have done this hundreds of times and never once used sysprep.

Shouldn't be a problem - I've done it a few times, but using PQ Drive Image, not Ghost. Check the legalities though - I had a problem and contacted the tech support who said technically the app waqsn't meant to be used in this way unless you had licences for each machine you imaged to - don't know if this app-lies to Norton though.

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