Installing the system is not a fun thing: first sit at the computer desk and honestly answer the questions raised by the Windows installer. After installation, you can't idle, you have to install drivers, applications... Demeanor, I can't take it for a long time! Some friends may say that using Ghost is fast and convenient. Within five minutes, the system will be restored, but that is just a backup of the machine. If you get someone else's machine to recover, it will definitely be "unacceptable", the reason is very simple. : Hardware, system, network configuration can not be the same ... but after reading this article, you can easily create a master key, any machine, you can easily use Ghost to restore the installation method, more than 10 minutes Can engage in the installation of Windows XP!
First, make preparations
Install Windows XP and use Windows Update to upgrade the latest system patches (including service pack l and other latest Hot fix). Also install the required application at the same time, but don't be greedy, because installing the application on the C drive is not recommended, and it will cause the Ghost image file to be too large.
Second, for Windows XP to lose weight
Regardless of whether you need to burn the final Ghost image file to the disc, you should lose weight to Windows XP, as much as possible Reduce the capacity of the Ghost image file. The main items that can be deleted are as follows:
1. System File Protection Cache
It is located in the C:\\Windows\\System32\\Dllcache directory. We only need to run "sfe.exe/purgecache" in the command prompt window to delete it.
2. Clear the page file
Right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". In the "System Properties" dialog that opens, select the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" button under "Performance", select the "Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" dialog box that opens, and then click the right The "Change" button in the lower corner opens the "Virtual Memory" dialog. By default, the virtual memory file is saved in the Windows XP installation directory. We just need to select the "No paging file" option below, and then click the "Settings" button. The virtual memory file is deleted after you restart your computer. Pay attention to the hard disk image file and then reset the virtual memory.
3. Turn off System Restore
Select the System Restore tab in the Open System Properties dialog box and check the box next to Turn off System Restore on all drives.
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other methods we can use to help others, such as deleting documents, delete unwanted input methods, font files and other conventional "weight loss" approach to further reduce the size of the Windows XP partition is located.
Third, the operation of the driver
Since we are making a versatile Windows XP Ghost file, the hardware configuration on the target computer and the current computer configuration is definitely not complete The same, so we want to remove the device driver on the current computer.
1. Delete the normal driver
1 In the "Run" dialog box, enter "devmgrnt.rnsc" and press Enter to open the "Device Manager" console window.
2 Locate the network adapter, right-click the NIC device name under it, and click the Uninstall menu item on the pop-up menu.
③ similar way and then uninstall the Universal Serial Bus controllers, video game controllers, graphics cards, sound cards and other device drivers. It should be noted here that if the system prompts you to restart, you must not restart the machine, so as to avoid the system self-assertion and reinstall the driver.
2. Update the ACPI attribute
Then we need to change the computer's ACPI attribute to Standard PC, because if there are different types of ACPI in the target computer, the newly cloned target computer will Unable to implement a soft shutdown of the computer and may crash after the first boot! Change the steps as follows:
1 Right-click "Computer" → "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" in the Device Manager console window, click the "Update Driver" menu item on the pop-up menu;
2 In the "Hardware Update Wizard" dialog box that opens, select the "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" option and click the "Next" button;
3 on the next page Select the "Don't search, I have to choose the driver to install" option and click the "Next" button;
4 Then select the "Standsrd PC" option and follow the on-screen prompts Next, just Finally, when prompted to restart, do not restart!
3. Update the IDE controller properties
The final step in the device driver is to change the IDE ATA /ATAPI controller. This step is very important, because everyone knows that different motherboards, such as Intel, Nforce 2, VIA and other motherboards, the IDE ATA /ATAPI controller drivers are very different, simply can not be universal!
1 Right-click the IDE ATA /ATAPI controller, Intel (r) 82371 AB /EB Bus Master IDE Controller in the Device Manager console window, and click "Update Driver" on the pop-up menu. Menu item;
2 In the "Hardware Update Wizard" dialog box that opens, select the "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)" option and click the "Next" button;
3 In the next page, select the “Do not search, I choose the driver to install” option and click the “Next” button;
4 Then select “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller” "Options, and follow the on-screen prompts all the way to Next, but only when prompted to restart, do not restart!
Fourth, prepare the main image file
Deleted the driver on the "master machine", it can not be said that it has been successful. This is because each computer has a unique security identifier (SID: security identifIEr). If you copy the disk image directly to another computer, all other computers will have the same SID, so you need to remove it with the Sysprep tool. The SID of the "master", thereby forcing the target computer to generate a new SID.
1. Auto Answer File
When the target computer resumes the clone backup, the system will start a Mini-Setup wizard process, which will prompt us to enter specific computer variables, such as administrators. Password, computer name, etc. However, since the driver is removed from the clone backup, it is not possible to interact with the keyboard or mouse at this stage. However, we can create an auto-install answer file that will automatically answer the questions raised by the installer.
1 Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and release the DEPLOY.CAB file in the \\SUPPORT\\TOOLS\\ directory to the C:\\Sysprep directory;
2 Then run the setupmgr. Exe file, select the "Sysprep installation" option in the option to install the type;
3 Fill in the necessary information according to the prompts, and click the "Next" button until the last time you enter the dialog to save the configuration file. In the box, make sure the final installation script path is C:\\Sysprep\\sysprep.inf.
2. Repacking
Now you can use the Sysprep tool to remove the SID of the "master". It is very simple: run the Sysprep.exe program in the C:\\Sysprep directory, and then click the "Repackage" button in the window that opens. Next, you will be prompted to regenerate the SID the next time you start, click the "OK" button, wait a moment, the computer will automatically shut down.
Fifth, after the clone master image file
computer is shut down, we can boot the computer using Ghost 2003 startup disk, and then click followed by "Local → Partition → To Image "Command, specify the source partition as the C drive, then set the path and file name of the Ghost image file to start the backup. After the backup is over, we have a versatile Windows XP image file!