Shoutbox

hello everybody,

at work, we use norton ghost to make our images.

Recently, we've been getting a lot of problems since we now have quite a few models of PCs with different hardware and most images are always missing drivers etc.

I've thought of basically including all the different models drivers into the Windows\Inf folder and running a sysprep afterwards, I imagine that Windows will auto-detect the new hardware and look for the .inf file in the mentionned directory that'll lead to the driver installation.

What I am a little worried about is the IDE to SATA problem. Most images are on IDE HDD and images are made of the partitions. When I ghost an IDE image to a SATA hdd, Windows won't boot up. I am wondering if putting the chipset SATA drivers will fix everything or not..

The reason I'm asking is that doing all of the above testing is possible, but would take a lot of time. If any of you guys have a faster route it'd be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.