I need "Ghost" xpert for Win XP

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Technican

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hi:

The main purpose of "my" ghosting is to be able to take a hard drive all setup and clone it to a clients hard drive so I dont have to do all the installs of the OS and programs like office, norton's etc. When doing this with win 95/98/me it was a snap. after the ghost you would boot the new hard drive in the different computer to safe mode, run regedit, delete the ENUM in the registry and re-boot. windows would then do a new hardware detection and you're all set...

however in windows XP it seems that it doesn't work because of the difference in the hard drive controllers. On boot-up I get a blue stop screen indicating the controller problem. I am using xp pro and ghost 2002. I tried going into recovery console and disabling anything to do with controllers. no good. I also tried sysprep on the source drive before cloning. no good. I always get that same exact blue stop screen no matter if I go into safe mode or any other choice on the menu list. the cloned drive works perfectly on the source computer but wont budge on the clients computer...any ideas?
 
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Mav3N

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I have had this same trouble... it works fine in all other os's including 2k but i havent go xp to work well with the ghost software.


 
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Rob G.

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If you can get into Safe Mode, can't you just delete the HD controller from Device Manager and reboot so it detects it properly?
 
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Evgeny

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Technician, do both the source and destination systems have IDE controllers? Or both SCSI? You know that you can't clone from IDE to SCSI or vice-versa, right? What's the actual error message you're getting on the blue screen, INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE?

Evgeny
 
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dunkster

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Other posts I've read seem to indicate that the principle problem is that Ghost simply won't write to an NTFS-formatted partition.

Those posts indicated that Ghost/WinXP compatabilty is fine with FAT32-formatted partitions.

Hope this helps!
 
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bsobel

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> Other posts I've read seem to indicate that the principle problem is that Ghost simply won't write to an NTFS-formatted partition

Ghost will clone an NTFS partition, it doesn't currently allow you to write a ghost image to an NTFS partition from DOS. This has nothing to do with what the poster asked.
Bill
 
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Do the following BEFORE you ghost.


1. Get your image made and ready to go.
2. Go to Device manager - then to the tab named "IDE/ATAPI CONTROLLERS" The first item in the list is your controller.
Double click on it and select "Update driver"
Once the next window pops up you need to choose "Select from a known list of drivers..." (might say it a bit different than that).
It should popup a window with two options: You current controller and then "Standard Dual channel ide controller"
Doube click on the "Standard Dual channel IDE controller" and install it.
Once done it will ask you to reboot...say NO.

3.Run the Sysprep utility from microsoft and run it as follows sysprep -pnp -reboot
With this switch it will auto reboot, so make sure oyu have your ghost floppy in and ready to go.


These steps change the controller form your specific one to a generic controller type rpovided by microsoft that is compatible with all controllers.
by running sysprep with the -pnp switch it writes to the inf file that Windows should run in Plug-n-Play mode during setup, thus if you have a different controller it shoud detect and install it. (Providing it has the drivers available in windows) if it doesnt it will continue to use the default controller until you update the drivers manually.

Also when ghosting to place images to another machine you should go to the device manager and remove ANY specific hardware items form the machine you are building on. For example never leave the following items: modems, soundcards, video adapters, lan cards.
Simply remove them or change them to a default device driver (i.e your video adapter..change it form say an ATI to Standard VGA) this works much better and allows for Windows to detect and install devices correctly. Using sysprep will also allow you to avoid having to use the Ghostwalker utility or having to go into Safemode and screw with any reg keys...that is dangerous all on its own.


Try this out and see if it works for you, i have been doing ghosts for long time and have yet to see a failure with this. This is of course material that I was handed from Imcrosft and Symantec through our Premier support..blah blah blah....

Let me know if it works or if i can answer any other questions for ya.


 
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Technican

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hi:

I want to thank one and all for your gracious replies. I should have supplied more info. Both computers have IDE controllers. The source is an Epox 8kta3 and the destination in this case is the ECS K7S5A. So we are dealing with a VIA and SIS hard drive controller. Just want everyone to know that SAIGONk's procedure worked flawlessly. I just finished it and after 50x times of seeing that blue stop screen, bingo, she booted up, asked me a few questions and so far so good. Win XP found all my programs and detected all my hardware. It only needed the driver for the built-in sound on the k7s5a. The only other strange happening was that both my shortcuts to installed programs disappeared. BIG DEAL! I'm ecstatic. yo man I owe you a beer. Thanks much!
 
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Help - I tried it. Got everything ready to run sysprep, but got this error when I ran "C:\sysprep\sysprep.exe -pnp -reboot".


It said:

In the title block: "sysprep.exe - Entry Point Not found"

In the body: "The procedure entry point EnablePrivilege could not be located in the dynamic link library SETUPAPI.dll"



Tried running it from the "run" box, from the command line, running from "run as.." (with no switches) , safe mode etc. and got the exact same error every time. Tried "-pnp" and -reboot" without spaces between them. Tried "-pnp" without the "reboot' switch, always get the same error.

My OS is XP, I got the Sysprep from the link in SaigonK's .doc file. Is there a different version of Sysprep for XP?

Any ideas, toss 'em my way, I've been wanting to do this for a while. Seems like I've been changing Mobo's like most people change their underwear and I'm pretty tired of reinstalling my OS over and over again.
 
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mOrphine

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good one saigonk, wished i had this when i was ghosting, but mine seem to have gone alright *fingers still crossed*
 
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mOrphine

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sysprep is on the winxp cd under support or one of the directories, its in the deploy.cab file
 
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