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Replicating A Mame Setup
eccs19:
--- Quote from: jelwell on November 03, 2006, 03:04:40 pm ---You're going to lose any Windows settings/changes, especially any work you've done to hide windows. You could try Ghosting it. Although if your motherboard/cpu is different you're likely to cause more problems than you'd solve.
Joseph Elwell.
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Agreed, if your just copying Mame, then you should be fine, but if your planning on copying the OS, then unless the 2 computers are identical models, Windows will need at LEAST a repair install, and if all goes well, then you should be good to go, but even with extreme hardware changes, a repair install still may not work.
Bill Mote:
If you're wanting to get a 1:1 copy of everything then you can use Ghost as well as a utility on the XP CD called "sysprep." It's in the support folder inside a cab file named deploy. If you have Ghost then that's a valid option. Syspreg guts the machine of all it's hardware specific settings and forces the machine through mini-setup (enter your key, machine name, etc.)
I seperated my OS from my MAME stuff so that I could capture periodic (as major changes happen) ghosts of the OS. The MAME stuff I backup excluding the ROMS, SNAPS, etc. folders.
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