Re: Mass distribution



ravi,

Well.. I don't know exactly why it didn't work for you with Ghosting. I don't see any obvious issues with the procedure you outlined
(except that you should be Ghosting the entire drive).
But I recall some similar reports a while ago so here is a few tips for you to try out:

- Check your new target BIOS settings.

- After the Ghosting boot the target PC with boot and run "fdisk /MBR" command. Then reboot without floppy and see if you can
pass the DMI pool error message.

- Use primary IDE controller instead of the secondary while you are doing the Ghosting

- Do not use Ghost approach at all but rather prepare the new HDD with Disk Manager from XP Pro and then just copy the partition
content there from running XP.
Or the partitioning you can do from DOS to make sure it definitely works.

- If any of above does not work, try just partitioning and formatting the target from DOS (FAT), place ntldr, ntdetect and
boot.ini with non zero timeout specified there and see if you can get to the ntldr menu first. If doesn't work - you've potentially
got some problems with hardware (try upgrading BIOS), otherwise move forward to NTFS.

Some more info you can get from old threads:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded/search?group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded&q=Verifying+DMI+pool+data&qt_g=1

--
Regards,
KM, BSquare Corp.


> I am using XPE with SP1.
> We used SDI Loader to deploy the built image on harddisk. After
> completing the process it restarted and working fine.
>
> Here we tried to reproduce the newly created XPE Image on another hard
> disk by following procedures. The Source HDD is of size 20GB. (4 GB C
> Drive with NTFS and 16 GB D Drive with FAT32). The Target HDD also with
> same configuration.
>
> 1. Create GHOST image of C DRive of newly created XPE Image disk. Then
> run the image on another hard disk. Put the new harddisk in PC and boot
> the system, It recognises the harddisk but it is NOT proceeding further
> after "Verifying DMI pool data...".
>
> 2. Create GHOST image of DISK of newly created XPE image disk. Then run
> the image on another hard disk. Put the new harddisk in PC and boot the
> system, It recognises the harddisk but it is NOT proceeding further
> after "Verifying DMI pool data...".
>
> To create the ghost image we are following the below mentioned
> procedure.
>
> 1. Connect newly created xPE Image disk as secondary disk in a desktop
> sytem.
> 2. Boot the desktop system from floppy.
> 3. Run the ghost.exe application and take the secondary hard disk C
> Drive image and store it on primary harddisk C Drive.
> 4. Switch off the Desktop sytem.
> 5. Format a new harddisk.
> 6. Connect the new harddisk as secondary disk in a desktop sytem.
> 7. Boot the desktop system from floppy.
> 8. Run the ghost.exe application and run the ghost image which we
> stored in primary disk.
> 9. Switch off the desktop system.
> 10.Put the harddisk in the PC and boot the system.
>
>
> Can any body helpout me on this? What went wrong during the process..Is
> there any other way for reproduce the disk?
>



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