Although Windows system has unattended installation program, it won't save much time at all. After the system is installed, you still need to install applications and set network permissions. It will take a lot of time! And during the installation, most people just sit there and wait!
As we all know, in order to install the machine conveniently and save time, most people will use GHOST (clone) software to make a backup of their operating system. (Although the backed-up files take up more space, the space of 1-2G is not a problem for today's large-capacity hard disks! ) When the system crashes or other problems fail to start, GHOST can restore your operating system and applications within 5 minutes, which is enough to save you a whole day! But those are local backups, so everyone is wondering if we can make a universal GHOST and restore it quickly on other people's computers, which will not only save time, but also complete some work that was impossible before. In fact, we only need to solve the hardware driver and XP system activation problem!
Cut the gossip and let's start solving the problem. The 2000 system does not need to be activated, but both XP and 2003 need to be activated (friends who use the non-VOK version will stop watching, only those who use the VOL version XP/2003 will continue to watch)! !
First, the installation optimization of XP system
First, install XP system on disk C, and install commonly used software on system disk (c:\program file\ directory, such as OFFICE2003, media player, compression software, etc. XP must be installed on drive C and cannot be installed on other partitions unless you are the ghost of the whole hard disk. At this time, we will find that the installed system disk is almost 1.5G even if there is no application. Because after the XP system is installed, there are many things in the system that we don't need at all. In order to save space and facilitate combustion, we need to optimize it. Of course, if you bring a hard disk every time you install a system for others, you don't need to optimize files to save space-I recommend that you use a hard disk to burn discs. ). When optimizing, we mainly delete some backup files and description files.
Turn off the sleep function of power management first! Right-click Desktop-Properties-Screen Saver-Power-Advanced. At this time, the page file hiberfil.sys in the root directory of drive C will be automatically deleted, and the size is your memory capacity. If you have 1G of memory, then the file size is 1G!
Then turn off the system restore and automatic online update functions, and click My Computer-Properties-System Restore and Automatic Update.
Then delete the standby dynamic link library (dll file). With the SFC command, you can delete files in the directory c:\windows\system\dellcache to free up space. The command to delete all files is sfc.exe/purgecache(sfc.exe/? Check the meaning of command parameters), or delete it manually! About 300MB.
At this point, XP lost weight.
(Hint, losing weight is just for the convenience of GHSOT's CD burning. Users who generally use disk cloning do not need to lose weight, and pay special attention to losing weight after all applications are installed. )
2. Delete the original driver of XP system and clone it!
There are two methods for universal cloning, one is direct cloning by deleting the driver, and the other is complete repackaging!
At present, several versions of XP universal cloning circulating on the Internet have deleted the driver and cloned directly! And complete repackaging means removing the weight of the drive and repackaging! (Microsoft officially uses a complete repackaging method)
We will take action step by step!
1. Open the Device Manager (click My Computer-Properties-Hardware-Device Manager).
First, unload the driver inside and change it: pay attention to the order! ! First, uninstall the network adapter, universal serial bus controller, audio and video game controller, monitor and graphics card. When uninstalling, right-click and click Uninstall. The system prompts to restart, press No to not start! ! (The purpose of uninstalling the graphics card is to prevent the blue screen phenomenon that may occur when GHOST is transferred to another machine. )
2. Next, right-click Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI) and click Update Driver, and the update wizard will pop up. Click Install (Advanced) from the list or the specified location without searching. I want to choose my own program installation and switch to a standard PC. After clicking OK, the computer will also prompt to restart. Press no, don't start! (Hint: Now most computers are generally Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI): (Advanced Power Management), so this step can actually be omitted!
The reason for the change is: if it is not changed here, if the new machine is not of the same type as ACPI (for example, the new motherboard is displayed as acpi uniprocessor pc! ) There is nothing wrong with your newly cloned plane, except that you can't realize soft shutdown of the computer!
So when GHOST arrives at the new machine, just change the standard PC back to your corresponding power management mode, which is also the explanation that XP Universal GHSOT circulating on the Internet will remind you to do this step. "
3. Finally, you must change the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller, which is the main step of XP General GHOST! ! If you don't do this step, GHOST can't start on other machines at all, and the computer will keep restarting! ! So in order to adapt to various motherboards (such as Inter motherboard, VIA motherboard and SIS motherboard), you must replace your local IDE controller with a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller!
Click (this machine is an IDE controller controlled by Intel (R) 8280 1AA bus-each motherboard is different), click Update Driver, and the update wizard will pop up. Click Install from a list or a specified location (Advanced). Do not search. I want to choose my own program installation and change it into a standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller. After clicking, click OK. Turn it off directly after this time is determined! !
(Note: At this point, the deletion of the driver has been completed. At this time, if you want to clone, you can connect the hard disk to another computer after the computer is turned off, or open the local computer with a CD-ROM, just GHSOT the contents of disk C to other partitions! ! )
Now several universal clones of 2000 and XP circulating on the Internet generally do this! !
However, it is also obvious that although XP supports almost all hardware at present! Although XP will install the driver itself according to the hardware of another computer after it is started on another computer, why do you feel a little reluctant to do so? What happened? Some drivers left on the mother machine may also be forced to work, so the system is unstable, or blue screen of death phenomenon may occur! !
In order to be more stable and standardized, let the system install its own computer hardware drivers! At this time, we thought of Sysprep.exe, a system repackaging tool in Microsoft Enterprise Deployment Toolkit. We just want the system to completely reinstall the required driver in the newly cloned computer, instead of using the driver of the parent computer locally (to put it bluntly, the installation process of the computer system is to let the computer find and use the current hardware driver).
Third, create an automatic answer file and repackage the system!
The system repackaging tool has been included in the Windows xp installation CD! The location is (X:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\DEPLOY. CAB) file Next, we began to use this tool step by step; First of all, we suggest putting a folder named Sysprep in the root directory of C: drive and unzipping the DEPLOY file. CAB the compressed package to c:\sysprep with Winrar.
In fact, we only use third gear, and it doesn't matter if we have a few more gears! ! Because the system will automatically delete this directory and files under it after the first startup, so we don't have to worry!
1. Create the system automatic answer file!
Friends who have played with the system and don't pretend, I think this is no stranger! ! But a novice may ask, "Why did you create this file!" " In fact, users are required to input some necessary contents, such as user name, computer name, installation serial number, etc., whether they install the computer system in factory mode or repackage it. However, there is a serious problem, that is, when we need to input this information in the GHOST clone installation of the new machine, the system has not found the driver of the keyboard and mouse, and the keyboard and mouse are suspended animation, so the system must be installed automatically. Otherwise, the installation will definitely not succeed! !
Click the file C:\sysprep\setupmgr.exe,
Click Next to create a new file!
Click Next: Select Sysprep installation,
Click Next. According to different systems, we are XP Professional Edition. Choose the second one! Of course, if you want to be a Windows 2003 system, here is your choice. )
Third, create an automatic answer file and repackage the system! The system repackaging tool has been included in the Windows xp installation CD! The location is (X:\SUPPORT\TOOLS\DEPLOY. CAB) file Next, we began to use this tool step by step; First of all, we suggest putting a folder named Sysprep in the root directory of C: drive and unzipping the DEPLOY file. CAB the compressed package to c:\sysprep with Winrar. In fact, we only use third gear, and it doesn't matter if we have a few more gears! ! Because the system will automatically delete this directory and files under it after the first startup, so we don't have to worry! 1. Create the system automatic answer file! Friends who have played with the system and don't pretend, I think this is no stranger! ! But a novice may ask, "Why did you create this file!" " In fact, users are required to input some necessary contents, such as user name, computer name, installation serial number, etc., whether they install the computer system in factory mode or repackage it. However, there is a serious problem, that is, when we need to input this information in the GHOST clone installation of the new machine, the system has not found the driver of the keyboard and mouse, and the keyboard and mouse are suspended animation, so the system must be installed automatically. Otherwise, the installation will definitely not succeed! ! Click the file C:\sysprep\setupmgr.exe, and click Next to create a new file! Click Next: Select Sysprep installation, and then click Next. According to the choice of different systems, we are XP professional edition, so choose the second one! Of course, if you want to be a Windows 2003 system, here is your system choice. ) Click Next, you must choose automatic installation here, or you will suffer!
Click Next to enter the installation management interface! ! You can see at a glance that these contents are what we need to fill in when installing XP. The advantage of automatic installation is that we input it first, and we don't need to input it when installing! !
Here we only need to enter a few necessary items, and the rest can be directly pressed next! The product key is of course needed! You also need a computer name, otherwise the automatically generated names are usually ugly! The administrator password can be left blank (of course, it is best not to, and others will change it when necessary). Language You must select Simplified Chinese here. You don't need to enter anything else, and you don't need to choose. Go straight to the next step.
Click OK, and the automatically installed answer file is created successfully. (In addition, the file name of this file must be sysprep.inf, and the directory must be in the c:\sysprep directory. )
Special note: Don't put anything else in this directory of C:\ sysprep, because this folder will automatically delete this folder and everything in this folder after the system starts the answer installation for the first time.
2. System repackaging
What we need to do now is the last step, system encapsulation. Click c:\sysprep\sysprep.exe, and then click OK in the screen that appears. In the screen that appears, we seldom use the first button (factory) and the second button (review), we just need to repackage it! ! Among the options, there are still 4 options! !
Among them, the first item (not resetting the grace period of activation) and the third item (not regenerating the security identifier) are dedicated to systems above XP, that is, activating genuine users. If you are using the VOL version, it doesn't matter whether these two options are practical or not, and it has no influence on the use of the GHOST cloning system!
The second item (using minimum installation) is not only called PNP installation, but also seems to be called residue-free driver installation, which is exactly what we need, so this item must be selected.
In the fourth item (detecting non-plug-and-play hardware), this option is not needed, because even if there is antique hardware without plug-and-play, it is not too late for us to install the driver after the system is installed! !
After such a long time of preparation, we can finally repackage the system! Click the repackage button. After about half a minute, the computer will start to shut down automatically.
After shutdown, the XP system in your C drive is a completely repackaged Windows XP "parent system disk" (-God, I invented the word "parent system disk" too, I am a genius-). At this time, the computer must not be restarted. You can use the Tools CD to start it, or after removing the hard disk, connect it to another computer and use the latest version of GHOST 8.0.
Four. Frequently asked questions and scope of application.
1. If you install the system by repackaging, you don't need to change the (ACPI) property of the computer to a standard PC, which is not good. You need to change it back after cloning, because repackaging will automatically detect the hardware driver! !
2. You must create the system automatic answer file, because after the system is repackaged, you can restart to the interface of inputting the computer name and installation serial number on the new machine, but the keyboard and mouse of the computer have not reflected yet, so you can't input anything at all! !
3. Create the system automatic answer file at any time, or edit it yourself, but there are several steps that must not be mistaken, that is, you can't restart the computer after uninstalling and changing the hardware driver, that is, you have to uninstall the driver and repackage it in one go.
4. Someone asked, can you do universal cloning with D disk! The answer is very difficult, because computers usually have to be started through disk C, and they have to be repaired after being installed on disk D, so it is best to reinstall them quickly after getting them around!
In 2000, I suggested that general personal user systems use FAT32 format, because Windows2000 just appeared at that time. However, since the appearance of Windows PE and various super boot CDs, it is totally unnecessary to use FAT32 file format and directly use NTFS file format, because the security and performance of NTFS files completely exceed FAT32 and FAT formats! And the new version of GHOST8.0 directly supports Windows operation and NTFS format support.
5. With regard to CD burning, the size of XP system after installation exceeds 1.5G, and the size after GHOST is 755M, which has exceeded the capacity of ordinary optical drive of 700M. Therefore, it is suggested to use the hard disk GHOST directly, and of course, you can also make room for burning CDs through optimization and XP slimming. Generally, the help file in the directory c:\windows\help\ is deleted, and deleting the file C:Windows\system\dellcache can free up about 300M of space. According to the test, only the following software can be installed:
1.ACDSee 2.4 1 picture browsing software 2. Super Snapshot -DX Image Capture Software 3. IsoBuster Pro 1.5 CD reading software 4. Network transmission download tool 5. Download tool 6. Realone Play。 R Plus online movie player 7. Norton antivirus 8. 1 antivirus software 8. Super ISO 6.5 1 CD file making software 9. WinImage v6. 1 all kinds of mirror image making software 10. WinRAR 3.3 compression software 1654. 38+0. Tencent QQ Chat Software 12. Kingplayer 2003 official edition, media playing software 13. FinalData 2.0-the strongest data recovery software14.flashfxp2.1build923 uploading software 15. MyIE2 0.8.2070 Web browsing software 16. Winamp 5.0 1 MP3 play. Software 17. Microsoft office software 2000 18. Microsoft Excel 2000 office software 19. Microsoft Word 2000 office software.
Because the CD capacity is limited, only these can be installed. Of course, you can install your favorite software. (The capacity of hard disk GHOST is not limited. It is recommended to use hard disk GHOST, but it is a bit troublesome to bring a hard disk when installing a system for others. )
Scope of application:
1. The general GHOST made by this method should be able to adapt to almost all computers at present, including Inter motherboards, VIA motherboards, SIS motherboards and so on. (Others such as dual CPU, SISC hard disk, dedicated motherboard, etc. Will be temporarily and unconditionally tested. )
This method can also be used to update remote systems, such as remote servers in Taiwan Province Province and other places, and upload GHOST files to restore to a brand-new system!
The universal clone of 2.2. Windows 98, it is recommended to delete all kinds of drivers and directly replace the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller without other settings, and as we all know, 98 is extremely unstable and can run 2000 or XP. It is recommended to install 2000 or XP! !
3.Windows 2000 Professional Edition and Server Edition can be cloned without activation, which is more convenient than XP and the operation steps are similar! ! !
4. At present, Windows 2003 servers on the Internet are basically activation-free versions of VOL, and the operation steps are the same as XP, except that there are several options when creating self-response files, such as how many users are authorized. Moreover, when repackaging in 2003, the PNP option (using minimum installation) was grayed out, that is, mandatory selection, which is actually what we hope! ! The CDs of 2000, XP and 2003 all have their own repackaging tools, which are not universal. Everything else is basically the same!
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