It can be easily done using utilities like Norton's Ghost etc. You cannot just do a copy but need to use a utility like Ghost. ----- Original Message ----- From: "der.hans" To: Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:23 AM Subject: RE: Urgent: Copy hda to hdb with dd? Am 23. Mar, 2002 schwätzte alandd@mindspring.com so: > Situation: Four identical computers assembled from identical components. > Goal: Install Windows 2000 with NTFS and all the same apps on all the computers. > Plan: Install everything on one computer then duplicate that drive to the other three drives that way configuration and installation only has to happen once. Last I knew you couldn't just copy m$ boxen like this. They setup some super-secret serial number and no one else is allowed to have the same one. Ghost copies the drives, then changes the super-secret number thingy. ciao, der.hans -- # http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ http://www..com/ # Help Jerry Lewis stamp out M$...oops that's MDA - der.hans ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss