Question : Problem: Norton ghost image on unlike computer

I'm wanting to know if its a good idea to make a image of one computer and put that image on a unlike computer with Ghost? What problems are likely to occur? Looking for web articles?

Image is XP Pro with Office 2003, unlike computers are verious model types (Dell, Gateway, etc.., desktops and laptops).

Thank you,
DSterling

Answer : Problem: Norton ghost image on unlike computer

It is possible, but as MASQUERAID has mentioned, you will most likely hit driver problems:

1. If you can't boot your new machine, you will have to run a repair install to forces the system to look at the hardware and apply the correct drivers. This takes a little while and you also then need to to re-patch the machine afterwards as it remove all updates.
2. PNP drivers such as NIC, video etc might have to be re-installed once you boot up. Check in device manager for missing drivers.

There is imaging software which allows for restoring to different hardware - Acronis True Image is a good one (you need the Universal Restore option) - http://www.acronis.com/smb.

Before you take the image you should first sysprep it so you won't be duplicating SIDs (Security ID) across your network. Have a look at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577. sysprep removes any unique identifiers the machine has which shouldn't be duplicated. When you then boot your new machine, you enter a mini-setup so you can configure the new machine.