Ghosting and Windows XP Blues screens

[John]

I am having trouble ghosting a Windows XP image onto another pc using
Ghost 7.5. Once the image is loaded, and I start the pc, it quickly
brings up a beautiful blue screen. Presumably this is because the
pc's do not have indentical hardware and it's running into strife
during the driver detection phase of bootup.

Can anone help me with any work arounds that will get qround this
problem.

I tried using sysprep but that didn't seem to help.

Wally

 

[Will Dormann]

I am having trouble ghosting a Windows XP image onto another pc using
Ghost 7.5. Once the image is loaded, and I start the pc, it quickly
brings up a beautiful blue screen. Presumably this is because the
pc's do not have indentical hardware and it's running into strife
during the driver detection phase of bootup.

Can anone help me with any work arounds that will get qround this
problem.

Try safe mode, or use the recovery console to disable the offending
driver / service.


-WD

 

[Michael Cecil]

Try safe mode, or use the recovery console to disable the offending
driver / service.

That's won't help. The original poster needs to do a repair install to
force XP to sort out the different hardware but keep the previous settings
and software. Just boot from the XP CD, when it finds the existing
install it will offer to repair it - choose NO, proceed to the next screen
where it will ask where to install XP. Choose to install over your
existing install, then XP will perform an in-place upgrade repairing your
ghosted install.

 

[Peter]

Michael,
Your approach is fine if John wants to fix that PC. But is not good if he
wants to correct sysprep process itself. He did not clearly indicate what is
his objective.
Peter