In brief, here is how you prepare your hard disk drive in order to clone it:Ĭreate Acronis Migrate Easy bootable rescue media with Bootable Rescue Media Builder available in Acronis Migrate Easy program menu. To download Microsoft System Preparation tool, click on your operating system: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003. The resulting image can then be safely reused for installation on other computers.' This issue also exists in Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and thus computers running those operating systems must be prepared as well. To work around this problem, administrators use the System Preparation Tool (Sysprep.exe) to remove configuration settings that are unique to the computer such as the computer name and SID. This may prevent the cloned computers from functioning correctly in a workgroup or a domain. According to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 298491, 'One problem from duplicating an installation of Windows 2000 is that each cloned computer has the same security identifier (SID) and computer name. In order to clone your Windows system a to different machine, you should first prepare Windows using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep). How a Windows XP, NT, 2000 or Server 2003 system can be prepared for cloning to different hardware
