Universal Restore for XP&Vista

How to make universal restore image for XP so that it can be restored on different hardware?

 

I don't think you can do that with any OS, except remastered Linux live CDs. You CAN restore, but you'll have to reinstall and your drivers, reactivate Windows and possibly it won't work, if your chip is different ... Tricky ...

Like asking one-kidney-fit-all transplant ... no can do.

Cheers,
Mrk

 

Well activating Windows and installing drivers is OK..

 

As long as you stick to amd chip to amd chip and intel to intel, it should be ok. But if your OS is using all sorts of complicated thingies like hyperthreading, smp, whatnot, you might get a few bsods here and there.

Try and see what comes up.

Cheers,
Mrk

 

paragon drive backup 9 pro.
shadow protect desktop
genrally you create an image of the OS and then restore it to other hardware. once done you then boot up the the hardware independent restore
disc and then load the drivers for the new hardware on to the operating system partition so that it boots on the new hardware. just to note you will want to install the lastest drivers for the hardware once its done since the drivers provided will just make it bootable nothing more.

there is a tool from terabyte unlimited that can as well. you use a boot disc and it will load the drivers the computer you transfer the operating system to.
btw i always prefer fresh installs.

 

Good question! I will see sometimes check box for "universal restore" but I don't understand why it not see all the time. I use Acronis True Image Home
software 2010 (v. 5055).

How can I force myself the universal restore funktion to on? No only software deside when it use it or not..

 

You can use sysprep. I've used this before when I upgraded to a new motherboard, works like a charm if you follow the directions.

You do need imaging software though to make the image after you've run sysprep. When you restore the image to your new hardware all you have to do is install the drivers, make user accounts and activate it again.

 

SYSPREP is a deploy tool direct to Microsoft It works correctly to clone XP from a PC to difference PCs!