This method has been tested more than once due to be circulated put Windows 2000 on the 850 computers, virtually no dealing with them. The system works on virtually all known today motherboards. Well, that the proceeding.

The first thing we need is to establish a system to a computer. Make all the necessary settings, changes and additions. Put all required software. In short, prepare a computer to the cloning. By the way, advise you to use distribution that does not require activation. I used Windows XP Corporate Edition with integrated SP1. Once the system is installed, it can be a little cleaning up, but here you to decide that leave and what to demolish.

I, for example, do a little cleaning system:

a) Ochischayu DLL cache. To do so, perform the following command:

c) Ochischayu Cart

g) Otklyuchayu System Restore folder and delete the System Volume Information from the root partition

Now do the configuration file for cloning. At CD Windows XP, look for Extract all the files from there. Create a drive to "C" directory SYSPREP and скиньте there all the files from DEPLOY.CAB. Now, SETUPMGR.EXE run. Launch Wizard.
We choose Create a new answer file, and then Sysprep Install. Carefully choose your version of Windows. In the next window, select Yes, full automate the installation. We have opened a window in which we are invited to fill out all sorts of information. We very important field Providing the Product Key. The next field is important for the sysadmin. If you write a computer name, it will be all your clones with one name, which is not very good in the nets. If put Automatically generate computer name, the system will provide the name of the computer at random. I, in his case left unchanged this field, thereby system asked what name I want to give the computer.
There is also a wealth of interesting options that can be set initially through this program. I advise to go for all options. Upon completion, all of which must be stored in the file sysprep.inf file and shall be in the directory C: \ SYSPREP.

All that is going to do more, to do without rebooting the system.

The biggest problem with Windows moving to another computer, a driver disk controller.
Typically, nearly all fees, a standard IDE support overseer. Therefore, we desirable to establish a standard IDE driver. Remove driver TUT. After unpacking skachennogo, all its contents, in the catalogue kidaem system32 \ drivers. In this folder, you may already be those files, I advise them not to rewrite. There is one small REG - file. A TUT is REG file. Rent it and run. He added in the available information on all types of Windows XP IDE controller.

Now, it would be nice to erase from the register key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ MountedDevices \

and thus we will avoid the problems of comparing signatures sections.

As many of you know, Windows XP computers are shared by several types. At the "Standart PC" to "ACPI PC" and "ACPI Uniprocessor PC."
I advise merged with the distribution windows in several HAL s to select them for the first phase of downloads. If this is not done on some computers will be loaded issue. You should also have some slightly boot.ini. After the change, it should be like this:

We turn to the final stage.
Execute the (START-TO): c: \ sysprep \ sysprep-pnp - mini. In the window that appears, change the "shutdown mode" to "quit" and press Reseal. Main avoid rebooting. I now check Boot.ini, there must podpravit timeout, put 10.

This is true completed. Remained the most minor things to do disk image "C". I use Ghost, but Acronis TrueImage is perfect for this. The most important thing is not to let the system restarts, until you have done the image of what has now happened. Once you are in the hands of the image, it can be recorded on CD, and of course, I recommend to make a bootable CD.