HPPROBLEM

Im selling my hp pavilion zd8000 in a little while and i would love to sell them a used but cleaned hard drive does any one have any ideo on how to ghost my hard drive??

Chevy

Why ghost it?

It would be better to burn your important data to CD or DVD, then perform a clean install using the recovery CD's that came with it.

smz

Hey HPPROBLEM:

Just FYI: if you plan on ghosting your HD and restoring it to a new system. You have to run SYSprep before performing the ghost, otherwise unless the machine uses nearly identical hardware to what you already have, you won't be able to boot into a working O.S. Only other suggestion is close to the post above me. If you don't want to sort through things now, you can ghost the drive to an image and then install ghost explorer on the new machine to retrieve your docs, etc. Same idea as a data backup but you are backing up a lot of information you don't need, it just saves time for the backup process but the restore process then becomes longer because you have to sort through all of it.

Chevy

You'll also have to purchase a new Windows license, since OEM licenses cannot be transferred from one machine to another.

HPPROBLEM

i dont not want to transfer the information. My plan is to ghost the hardrive just because the person wants the hard drive ghosted befroe he buys it dont plan on transfering any of my saved files to another comp.

smz

So you're saying this person wants a ghost of the current running system? Aren't you concerned with your personal information? Every modern HP including the ZD8000 comes with recovery discs in case of a crash or simply to start from scratch. Unless this person is a good friend of yours, why wouldn't you do a simple factory restore? See if I was worried about personal information (as if I sold a laptop on eBay), what I personally would do is #1, backup all my docs, settings, data, etc. #2: make sure I have the recovery discs for the system then #3: (totally optional) Use Killdisk and wipe the drive clean. The FREE version allows one pass but some will argue that you should run it 3 to 7 times. Some will argue that 3 is enough and others stick to the DoD standard of 7. Anyhow #4: After the wipe, then restore the factory discs. Now the system is really brand new without any reasonably restorability of your previous OS and especially private data.

You won't have to worry about the OEM license being a problem. It will still live on the same machine it was intended for. Just tell your buyer to never try to restore the ghost on any other computer.