Norton Ghost on Windows XP - XP Wont Boot on new Hardware Image - Problem

[Matthew]

Problem - A ghost image on a windows XP Dell GX240 image when deployed
to a GX270 will cause that machine to not boot. It Goes thru POST and
boot menu options but upon selecting and windows mode (including safe)
the computer immediatly reboots. This problem did not occur in W2K -
The computer would simply boot and recognize new hardware and continue
on it's merry way. If anyone has seen this problem and/or have a
work-around/solution to it?

Thanks
Matthew

 

[JCO]

Done many images of xp and restored them perfectly. Infact, Window XP is
one of the few operating systems that lets you take an image from one
computer and put it on another computer. It seems that... if the mother
board is completly different, it may cause problems. However, xp seems to
fix itself by finding the drivers.

Only advice I can give is to boot in safe mode and remove the drivers from
all hardware then boot normally.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Of course !

You can't Ghost across different models. GX240 --> GX240, GX400 --> GX400, etc....

There is no solution. You need to create one image per OS per platform model.

What version of Ghost are you using anyway ?

Dave





| Problem - A ghost image on a windows XP Dell GX240 image when deployed
| to a GX270 will cause that machine to not boot. It Goes thru POST and
| boot menu options but upon selecting and windows mode (including safe)
| the computer immediatly reboots. This problem did not occur in W2K -
| The computer would simply boot and recognize new hardware and continue
| on it's merry way. If anyone has seen this problem and/or have a
| work-around/solution to it?
|
| Thanks
| Matthew

 

[Matthew]

you two seem to be saying different things so maybe i could get a
little more input. Like i said, This definately was possible using
windows 2000 just have had the problems on XP - and I cannot boot into
safe mode - the machine goes to the error screen no matter which boot
opt you choose. after doing a repair installation - which basicly
involed installing xp again, the machine did boot up which the
previously installed programs functioning. so we probably will make
another image for the other models, but i believe that the models
aren't so different that this should be necessary. I like windows XP
less every day.

 

[Matthew]

Ghost 7

 

[David H. Lipman]

I assume you mean - Enterprise Ghost v7.0. I use that and Enterprise Ghost v8.0 and
Symantec Ghost 2003.

BTW: Symantec support has ended on this version.

Dave




| Ghost 7

 

[David H. Lipman]

I am saying ONE thing.

You can ONLY successfully use Ghost to create an image per platform per OS. Therefore, you
would have to create one WinXP image for a Dell GX240 and one WinXP image for a Dell GX270.
You can't cross platforms.

I use Enterprise Ghost to image; Dell desktops and notebooks, Sony Vaio notebooks, IBM
Thinkpads and many other platforms. I do it for WinXP and Win2K and I have excellent use of
the software and it is the *ONLY* Symantec product I swear by and not swear at.

To give you some ideas, here is what I do...

I have a Win2K platform with a 20GB HD and an 80GB hard disk. The 20GB is the bootable "C:"
drive and the 80GB "D:" drive is dedicated to storing Ghost images. This platform is known
as my Ghost Cloning Platform and utilizes an Intel Server NIC with its own i960 CPU and
clock doubles the PCI BUS (66MHz) for increased network performance.

The Ghost Cloning Platform and all destination/source platforms are connected to a 24port
10/100Mb/s Ethernet switch. I use Ghost Boot Disks with either Crynwar Packet Drivers or
NDIS2 drivers for Intel and 3Com NICs. By using an Ethernet switch I can put the
destination/source platform(s) and Ghost Cloning Platform in Full Duplex Ethernet modes for
additional speed improvements. When restoring to multiple platforms at the same time I take
full advantage of the TCP/IP multicast capabilities.

I can expect to create an image for a GX240 in ~6.5mins. and restore an image in ~7.5Mins.
Slower platforms take upto 15mins.

Dave




| you two seem to be saying different things so maybe i could get a
| little more input. Like i said, This definately was possible using
| windows 2000 just have had the problems on XP - and I cannot boot into
| safe mode - the machine goes to the error screen no matter which boot
| opt you choose. after doing a repair installation - which basicly
| involed installing xp again, the machine did boot up which the
| previously installed programs functioning. so we probably will make
| another image for the other models, but i believe that the models
| aren't so different that this should be necessary. I like windows XP
| less every day.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Ooops that should have read --


I can expect to create an image for a GX240 in ~7.5mins. and restore an image in ~6.5Mins.
Slower platforms take upto 15~25mins (e.g, IBM 600e)

Dave

 

[Jerry]

You need to make the 1st partition active - similar to the fdisk
routines we did with 98. I've used the fdisk command on a 98 boot
disk. On some drives, I've used Ranish Partition Manager.