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John Doe Quote:ve seen cd's like this when a friend bought a chinese version of xp in china (was pirated no wonder it was so cheap) and when you went to install windows it would show ghost restoring the image and after the restore was complete there would be an activation like the real microsoft activation.
Well, that type of restore is usually used by OEM's to *deploy* a system image to multiple systems--you create a *base image* that can be installed on any machine, the installation process detects the hardware and sets things up, and then requires activation.
You install all the software you want in your *base image*, then use Microsoft's *Sysprep* program to make your *base system* deployable. Then use Ghost to make an image of that deployable system.
But, most Ghost users aren't interested in going back to some initial system that is 6 months, a year, or however long ago it was when you created that *base system*--most folks want to be able to restore their system to the state it was last week, or yesterday--if something has gone wrong!!! Which is what you indicated here:
Quote:what im trying to accomplish is have a cd that can install windows with my settings and programs already there
When you restore the image--you're back to where you were when you created the image!
Quote:Ive tried to backup a windows xp installation with ghost 14 and acronis trueimage before and when i would restore the backups, the partitions would not boot. i tried setting the partitions with boot properties and they still would not work.
There can be reasons for this problem--the most common is making an image of a system that is a Dell, or other OEM that has additional hidden utility and/or restore partitions on their system HDD that are not taken into consideration when restoring the backup image--in this case the *boot.ini* file can be pointing to the wrong partition to try to boot from!!!
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