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Replacing a crashed HD...

I've got a case where a customer's Point Of Sale system HD has crashed.

It was on a Dell Optiplex 780 running XP Pro. I am trying to prepare a HD with XP, or possibly 2009POSReady, the network driver & log me in, so that I can ship to him, have him install in computer & then connect remotely to finish driver & POS application installation.

Is this even possible? Unfortunately, I don't have a spare 780 in my office to install on, but I wondered if there could be a way in setting up a virtual machine of some sort? I have service tag info, so I would know what drivers, etc., I would need to install beforehand.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Scott Thomson

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gromack

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How do I do the default image of XP?

Scott Thomson

Throw the HDD into another spare machine and install xp.

gromack

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Thank you!

Scott Thomson

no worries. all the default drivers will do for the install.. then when you get it to the other side just guide them through device manager :)

gromack

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To take it a step further, what if I installed network driver for the computer I was using for the default image, got log me in installed, then removed network drivers. Copied correct drivers for his computer to a temp folder & had customer just install that. Once network was up & running, I could take it from there.

Scott Thomson

Yes sorry I didn't write the whole thing out

Install XP - without graphics drivers etc
Install logmein (however you can.. online or offline)
copy all the drivers needed to C:\temp or desktop even
Install any other apps that are needed (antivirus etc)

Have the client at least install the network drivers.

Then you log in and install the rest :)