The installation of operating systems and applications has always been a painstaking task, and although computers are now faster and faster and the steps to installing operating systems are very simple, each time you can only wait for the system to be completed step by step, the system is installed, and then installed the application, and also to set up network access. The first thing you need to do is to get a complete system in place, so it's not a big deal to install it once in a while, but if you have a lot of computers or you're installing computers for someone else, it's definitely not a good idea to go all the way to someone else's place and stay there all day long just to install a system, and it's a waste of time, and it's often a waste of time.

Although, Windows systems have no one involved in the installation process, but that does not save much time, after the system is installed after the installation of applications, set network permissions, etc. As always, it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of time! And most of the people in the installation process are just sitting there waiting!

We all know that, in order to install the machine convenient and save time, the general public will be in the machine using GHOST (cloning) software, will be their own operating system back up once, (although the backup file is more space, but for the current high-capacity hard disk, 1-2G space is not a problem at all!) If your system crashes or fails to boot, you can restore your operating system, applications, etc. with GHOST in 5 minutes, which is enough to save you a whole day! But that is the local backup, so we are thinking, can do a universal clone (universal GHOST), in other people's computers can also be quickly restored, so that not only can save time, but also can complete some of the previous impossible work. In fact, these, we just need to solve the hardware driver, and XP system activation problems on it!

Without further ado, let's start solving the problem, the 2000 system does not need to be activated, while XP and 2003 need to be activated (using non-VOK version of the friends do not read on, only applies to the use of VOL version of the friends of XP/2003 continue to read on)!

A, XP system installation optimization

First installed in the C disk XP system and install commonly used software to the system disk (c:\program file\ directory, such as OFFICE2003, etc., media player, compression software, etc.), (be sure to use the C disk to install XP, can not be installed to other partitions, unless you are the entire hard disk) GHOST) At this point we will find that the installed system disk even if not installed any application almost have nearly 1.5G of space, this time even if the GHOST maximum cloning compression, an XP system has a size of 755M, a CD-ROM can not be burned, so the practicality is not great! Because the XP system installed after the system has a lot of things we simply can not use, in order to save space for burning, so we have to optimize, (of course, if you install the system every time to others are with a hard drive to go, then there is no need to optimize the file to save space - recommended that we use the hard drive to burn ron). When optimizing, we mainly delete some backup files and description files can be.

We first turn off the hibernation function of power management! Tap the desktop right click - Properties - Screen saver - Power - Advanced. At this time in the C disk root directory of the page file hiberfil.sys will be automatically deleted, the size of your memory capacity, if you are 1G memory, then the size of this file is 1G!

Then turn off the system restore and automatic online update function, tap My Computer - Properties - System Restore and Automatic Update.

Then delete the spare dynamic link library (dll file) with SFC command can be c:\windows\system\dellcache directory of the files to be deleted to free up space. The command to delete all files is sfc.exe/purgecache (sfc.exe/? to see the meaning of the command parameters), or you can delete them manually!

The XP diet is now complete.

(Tips, weight loss is only to facilitate the GHSOT CD burning, generally if the user is using the hard disk cloning is not necessary to lose weight, and pay special attention to the applications are installed after the weight loss,)

II. Delete the original driver of the XP system can be cloned!

There are two methods of universal cloning, one is to delete the driver direct cloning, and one is completely repackaged!

Currently circulating on the Internet several versions of XP Universal Clone to delete the driver direct cloning! And completely repackaged, is to delete the driver after heavy, and then repackaged! (Microsoft official is to use the complete repackaging method)

We will start the operation step by step!

1. Open Device Manager (point my computer - Properties - Hardware - Device Manager)

We first uninstalled and change the driver inside: Note that there is a sequence! First uninstall the network adapter, and universal serial bus controller, and sound, video game controller, monitor, display card, uninstalled when the right click, click uninstall on the line. The system prompts you to reboot, all press No, do not start!!!! (Uninstalling the graphics card is to prevent GHOST to other machines may appear on the blue screen phenomenon)

2. Next, point Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) right click, point to update the driver, the pop-up update wizard ----, point from the list or specify the location of the installer (advanced) ---- point. Do not search, I have to choose the program to be installed, and change to Standard PC, point OK, the computer will also prompt you to restart, press No, do not start! (Tip: Now most of the computer is generally Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI): (advanced power management), then this step can actually not do!

The reason for the change is: if you don't change it here, then if the new machine is not the same type of ACPI, (e.g., the new motherboard now shows acpi uniprocessor pc!), then your new clone of the machine has no other problems, but you can't realize the soft shutdown of the computer!

So, after GHOST to the new machine, the Standard PC back to your corresponding power management mode on the line, which is also currently circulating on the Internet XP Universal GHSOT will remind you to do this step of the operation of the instructions.

3. Finally, be sure to change the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller, this step is the main step of the XP system Universal GHOST! This step is the main step of the XP system GHOST! If you don't do this step, the GHOST to other machines can not start at all, the computer will reboot constantly! Therefore, in order to adapt to a variety of different motherboards, (such as Inter motherboards, VIA motherboards, SIS motherboards) it is necessary to change your local IDE controller to a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller!

Point (the machine is Intel (r) 82801AA Bus Master IDE Controller - different motherboards) right-click, point to update the driver, the pop-up update wizard ----, point from the list or specify the location of the installation (advanced) ---- point, do not search, I want to choose their own program to be installed, and change to standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller, click OK, the computer will also prompt you to reboot. At this point, point OK directly after the shutdown!!!!

(Note that up to this point, the removal of the driver has been completed, this time if you want to clone has been able to, after the computer shutdown, the hard disk to other computers, or the local computer with a CD-ROM after the boot, the contents of the C disk GHSOT to other partitions on the line!)

Now a few of the 2000 and XP universal clones circulating on the Internet are generally done this way!

But it is also obvious to everyone that while XP supports almost all current hardware! Although the XP system will install its own drivers per the other machine's hardware after booting up on the other machine, it feels a bit reluctant how this is done? What's the point of installing drivers on the other machine? Some of the drivers left on the mother machine may also be forced to work, so the system is unstable, or the blue screen of death phenomenon may occur!

In order to be more stable, more standard for the system to install their own computer hardware drivers! At this point, we thought of Sysprep.exe - the system repackaging tool from the Microsoft Enterprise Deployment Toolkit. We just want the system to completely reinstall the required drivers in the newly cloned computer by itself, instead of just using the drivers of the mother computer) (To put it plainly, the process of installing a computer system is the process of letting the computer find and work on the current hardware drivers)

Three, create an auto-responder file, and the system is re-packaged!

System repackaging tools are included on the Windows xp installation CD! The location is the (X:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\DEPLOY.CAB) file on the installation CD. Let's start using the tool step-by-step; we'll suggest a folder called Sysprep in the root directory of the C: drive and extract the DEPLOY.CAB zip file with Winrar to c:\sysprep.

There are actually only 3 files we use, but a few more won't matter!!!! Because the files in this directory and in the directory will be deleted automatically after the first boot of the system, and do not need to worry about us!

1. Create the system auto-answer file!

Friends who have played with the system uninstalled, I think here are no stranger!!!! But the newbie may ask "why create this file!" In fact, the computer system, whether it is for factory mode installation, or repackaging, will require the user to enter some of the necessary content, such as user name, computer name, installation serial number, etc., but there is a serious problem, that is, in the new machine GHOST clone installation, we need to enter this information, the system has not found the keyboard and mouse driver, the keyboard and mouse false death, then you must let the system to perform an auto-answer installation. Otherwise the installation will definitely not be successful!!!!

Click on the C:\sysprep\setupmgr.exe file,

Tap Next to create a new file!

Tap Next: Select Sysprep Installation,

Tap Next, here according to the different systems to choose, we are XP Professional, choose the second! (Of course, if you want to do Windows 2003 system, here according to your system to choose)

Three, to create an auto-attendant file, the system re-packaging! System repackaging tools in the Windows xp installation CD-ROM have come with! The location is the installation CD-ROM (X:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\DEPLOY.CAB) file. Let's start using this tool step-by-step; we'll suggest a folder called Sysprep in the root directory of the C: drive, and extract the DEPLOY.CAB archive with Winrar to c:\sysprep. There are actually only 3 files we use, but it doesn't matter if there are more!!!! Because the files in this directory and in the directory will be automatically deleted after the first boot of the system, and do not need to worry about us! 1. Create the system auto-answer file! If you have ever played with the system uninstalled, I think this is not strange! But newcomers may ask "why create this file!" In fact, the computer system, whether it is for factory mode installation, or repackaging, will require the user to enter some necessary content, such as user name, computer name, installation serial number, etc., but there is a very serious problem, that is, in the new machine GHOST clone installation, need to enter this information, the system has not found the keyboard and mouse driver, the keyboard and mouse false dead, then you must let the system to perform an auto-answer installation. Otherwise the installation will definitely not be successful!!!! Click C:\sysprep\setupmgr.exe file, click Next to create a new file! Tap Next: Select Sysprep Installation, tap Next, here according to the different systems to choose, we are XP Professional Edition, choose the second! (Of course, if you want to do Windows 2003 system, here according to your system to choose) Point Next, here must be selected fully automatic installation, otherwise the loss is their own!

Tap Next, to come to this installation management interface! The good thing about automatic installation is that we enter it first, and then we don't have to enter it when we install it!

Here we are, as long as you enter the necessary items need to enter, all the other directly press the next step on the line! The product key is of course required! Computer name is also needed, otherwise the automatically generated name is generally very difficult to see! Administrator password can not lose, (of course, it is best not to lose, others need when others will go to change). Language here must choose Simplified Chinese. All other content do not have to enter, do not have to choose, the next step on the line.

Tap OK and Finish to successfully create a fully automated installation of the response file. (And, the file name must be sysprep.inf, and the directory must be in the c:\sysprep directory.)

Special note: Don't put anything else in the c:\sysprep directory because this folder will be deleted after the first startup of the system and all the things in this folder.

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2. System repackaging

Now to do is the last step, system repackaging, click on c:\sysprep\sysprep.exe, in the screen that appears to click on "OK", in the screen that appears, the first button of the (factory) and the second button of the (audit). We generally seldom use, we have to use is to re-package!!! In the options, there are 4 more options!!!!

The first (do not reset the activation of the grace period) and the third (do not re-generate the security identifier) are XP and above system-specific, that is, the genuine user activation with, if you are using the VOL version, so these two actually choose or not to choose does not matter to the use of GHOST clone system in the use of no impact!

The second item (using a minimized installation) is the so-called PNP installation, as if it is also called residual driver installation, which is exactly what we need, so this must be selected.

The fourth option (Detect non-plug-and-play hardware) is unchecked because even if there is non-plug-and-play vintage hardware, it's not too late to install the drivers after the system is installed!

After all this preparation, we can finally re-package the system! Click on the Repack button, and after about half a minute has passed, the computer starts to shut down automatically.

After shutting down, the XP system on your C drive will be a completely repacked and clean Windows XP "parent disk" (---- God, I invented the term "parent disk"...I'm a genius ----! ), at this time, the computer must not restart, you can use the tool CD-ROM startup, or your hard disk after the removal, received another computer, with the latest version of the GHOST 8.0 version of your hard disk C partition cloned into a GHOST file, this GHO file is the Windows XP clone.

Frequently Asked Questions and Scope of Application.

1. If you use repackaging to install the system, you do not have to change the computer's (ACPI) attributes to Standard PC, change the opposite is not good, but also need to change back after the cloning, because the repackaging, will automatically detect the hardware driver!

2. You must create a system auto-answer file, because after the system is repackaged, the system will reboot on the new machine to the Enter PC Name and Enter Installation Serial Number screen, and at this time, the computer's keyboard and mouse are not yet reflective, so you can't enter anything at all!!!!

3. Create a system auto-answer file at any time, or edit it yourself, but there are some steps you can't get wrong, that is, uninstall and change the hardware driver after the computer can't be restarted, that is to say, from the uninstallation of the driver and the re-encapsulation to be a one-track process.

4. Some people ask if you can use the D drive to make a universal clone! The answer is that it is very difficult, because the general computer to boot through the C drive, installed to the D drive, but also to repair, to get around is not as fast as reinstallation!

In 2000, I recommend that the general personal user system with FAT32 format, because then Windows2000 just appeared, but since Windows PE and a variety of super boot CD-ROM appeared, has no need to use the FAT32 file format, and directly with the NTFS file format, because the NTFS file security and performance of each NTFS file format is completely better than FAT32 and FAT format! And GHOST 8.0 new version, all directly support Windows operation and NTFS format support.

5. On the issue of CD-ROM burning, the XP system after the installation of more than 1.5G, GHOST after the size of 755M, has exceeded the general capacity of the CD-ROM 700M, so it is recommended to use the hard disk GHOST directly, of course, you can also be used through the optimization and XP thinning to free up some space for CD-ROM burning, the general situation is to delete the directory of c:\windows\help\ directory of c:\windows\help\ directory. The first is to delete the help files in the c:\windows\system\dellcache directory, and delete the c:\windows\system\dellcache files, then about 300M space can be freed up, according to the test, can only be loaded with the following software:

1. ACDSee 2.41 image browsing software 2. HyperSnap-DX image capturing software 3. IsoBuster Pro 1.5 CD-ROM reading software 4. Net Transport download tool 5. Internet Express FlashGet download tool 6. RealOne Player Plus online movie playback tool 7. Norton AntiVirus 8.1 antivirus software 8. UltraISO 6.51 CD-ROM file creation software 9. 9. WinImage v6.1 Various image creation software 10. WinRAR 3.3 Compression software 11. Tencent QQ Chat software 12. Kingsoft Video Studio 2003 official version, media playback software 13. FinalData 2.0 - the strongest data recovery software 14. FlashFXP 2.1 Build 923 Uploading software 15. MyIE2 0.8.2070 Web browsing software 16. Winamp 5.01 MP3 playback software 17. Microsoft Power point 2000 office software 18. Microsoft Excel 2000 office software 19. Microsoft Word 2000 office software

Because of the limited capacity of the CD-ROM can only load the These, of course, you can install your own favorite software, (hard disk GHOST unlimited capacity, so it is recommended to use the hard disk GHOST, just help others to install the system with the hard disk trouble)

Scope of application:

1. According to the method of production of the universal GHOST should be able to adapt to the current almost the vast majority of computers, including Inter motherboards, VIA motherboards, SIS and other computers. VIA motherboards, SIS motherboards. (Others, such as dual CPUs, SISC hard drives, and special motherboards, are not yet ready for testing.)

This method can also be used for remote system updates, such as remote servers in Taiwan, etc. After uploading the GHOST file, you can restore a brand new system!

2. Windows 98 Universal Clone, it is recommended that you directly delete all kinds of drivers and change the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller on it, without other settings, and the people on earth know that 98 is extremely unstable, and can run 2000 or XP, it is recommended to install 2000 or XP!

3. Windows 2000 Professional and Server Edition can be a universal clone, and do not need to activate, than the XP is convenient, the operation steps are almost the same!

4. Now online Windows 2003 server, basically VOL of the activation-free version, the operation steps and XP, just in the creation of self-responsive file a few more options, such as how many users authorized, etc., and, 2003 in the re-encapsulation, (using the minimized installation) PNP option is grayed out, that is, forced to select, which is in fact, what we want! ! ! 2000 and XP and 2003 versions of the CD-ROM come with their own repackaging tools and are not universal, everything else is basically the same!

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