Dell D600 and Norton Ghost

Well the laptop finally gave up on me !!! Today we went through an exercise in restoring the Dell D600 back to it's good ol' glory. Used Norton Ghost for an image and voila - it's up and running in under 20 minutes!!! Gone are the days where you'd need to sit with the Windows XP cd and the cd drive, and then reboot half a dozen times (not really, but well at least three times).

With Norton Ghost, all we needed to do was boot the laptop using the build in network card, and load the image from the server. After that it was a just a matter of 15 minutes, to get the whole operating system, Microsoft Office, and other packages installed, all in one shot! Amazing!!

This surely makes life easy, especially if you are running a company with a number of systems and need to carry out batch setups.