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> Bought a second computer awhile ago. One for internet, one
> offline. Wanted
> it as 'right' as I could. So, enquired to all my vendors etc
> as to whether
> or not new software was coming out, and wether or not thier
> app was sound on
> win2000. OK. Loaded all the software. Checked. Made a ghost
> image (2001) to
> the other computer. Split it in the process, to 3 files, each
> less than
> 650MB. Burnt these to CD. Scrubbed the win2000 computer
> entirely with the
> Norton Ghost 2001 utility; 'g' disk. Then did nothing else
> except reload the
> image from the CD's. It went easy. And it was if nothing was
> every scrubbed
> or reloaded.
>
> Downside:
> #1 Used a parallel cable for the transfer. Took about 4 to 6
> hours from
> memory, for about 1.5GB. Guess their are faster cables.
The words "parallel cable" point at the problem here. You may want a
network with your 2 computers that would speed things up at 100MBps, or even
build a FireWire network at 400MBps.
Ivo
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