Comments on: How to move Windows to another computer http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/12/04/how-to-move-windows-to-another-pc/ Paul Betts's personal website / blog / what-have-you Wed, 26 May 2010 09:57:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Paul Betts http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/12/04/how-to-move-windows-to-another-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-17584 Paul Betts Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:13:48 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/?p=379#comment-17584 @Colin - good questions; I'll try it on a VM and see :) Great tip btw, why'd they bury it in a subfolder?! @Colin – good questions; I’ll try it on a VM and see :) Great tip btw, why’d they bury it in a subfolder?!

]]> By: Jose http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/12/04/how-to-move-windows-to-another-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-17564 Jose Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:58:47 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/?p=379#comment-17564 Great advice. I dont know how many times I have to tell people the very same things. Glad I’m not the only one. Great advice. I dont know how many times I have to tell people the very same things. Glad I’m not the only one.

]]> By: Colin McCambridge http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2009/12/04/how-to-move-windows-to-another-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-17561 Colin McCambridge Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:12:17 +0000 http://blog.paulbetts.org/?p=379#comment-17561 Nice, I never thought of using Sysprep to move a full-fledged production installation from one machine to another. A couple questions: I'm under the impression that <code>sysprep /generalize</code> also takes the currently active profile and copies it to the default user profile (for all newly-created users to inherit). Is that the case? If so it might be a good idea to create a temporary Administrator user, run sysprep from there, and then delete the account after migrating. Also, does sysprep /generalize /shutdown allow you to get the generalization magic without having to go back through the OOBE process and rename your machine, create new user accounts, etc? And a tip: Unless you need any of the other advanced features of the Windows Automated Installation Kit, you can skip the download step and just run: <code>C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe</code> Nice, I never thought of using Sysprep to move a full-fledged production installation from one machine to another.

A couple questions:
I’m under the impression that sysprep /generalize also takes the currently active profile and copies it to the default user profile (for all newly-created users to inherit). Is that the case? If so it might be a good idea to create a temporary Administrator user, run sysprep from there, and then delete the account after migrating.
Also, does sysprep /generalize /shutdown allow you to get the generalization magic without having to go back through the OOBE process and rename your machine, create new user accounts, etc?

And a tip:
Unless you need any of the other advanced features of the Windows Automated Installation Kit, you can skip the download step and just run:
C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe

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