My company manages winxp laptops for our customer. We configure the
laptop appropriately and make an image of the disk so that we can
restore the drive if things change...pretty typical stuff I know. I
record the images to double layer DVD as well as backed up hard
drive. Quality Assurance has recently asked me how I can verify that
the image recorded on the DVD accurately represents what was on the
hard drive? I know from experience that it should be but I have no
proof and I can't think of any method to do so.

I've come up with one possible solution. I may be able to write (or
find) a program that will list all the files in the entire file system
and run checksum on each one and store to a data file. I could run
the filesystem checksum program on the system before imaging; image
the system; push the image back to the system; run the filesystem
checksum program again.

I realize this may sound like absolute madness but I work for a very
large company and our customer is very important so it's probably
necessary to jump through this hoop to save me some headache down the
road.

Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

Have Windows XP SP2 with all the avaliable updates (critical and optional)
installed. My laptop connected to a Windows SBS 2003 network with DHCP server
at work and gets the IP address of 192.168.0.56 I take it home and plug it
into home network, which also uses DHCP, and I get a new IP address
192.168.0.102. However, when I bring it back (shutdown and start) to the
office and connect it to the network, I logon to my laptop and it takes
forever to load my personal settings (10 minutes) and I do not have a roaming
profile setup. Not only that, I cannot access the network or internet.

as it turns out, the IP address from my home network is not being released
and I am not able get get an ip address from my server at work. Once I
performed ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew, then I am able to get the
new IP and can access my network.

I had this laptop setup as computer name ABC at one point. Then I formatted
it and reinstalled everything and called it XYZ. Don't think this has
anything to do with it.

What is causing this problem and what is the solutions?
Thanks for your help,
steve Louie