XP Hangs after Ghost 9
- From: user1@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:51:33 GMT
I want to add my experience and solution for problems ghosting XP Home
and XP Pro with Ghost 9.
In a word, the solution I have located is fdisk /mbr, at least for XP
Home.
I removed the subject hard drive form its home computer, ghosted with
Ghost 9 as an image ("Backup" in Ghost terminology) onto a hard drive
in my 'bench' computer, then restored the Image to a new hard drive
destined for the original home computer. This did not work, yet.
When booted the new hard drive just hung at the login screen that is
pre-Welcome screen and just says Windows XP. Until I shut down, booted
to the boot disk from bootdisk.com, and performed the fdisk /mbr on the
C:\ drive (the 'restored' hard drive for the home computer.
The same issue arose using Ghost 9 for deployment of an XP Pro image
onto new (identical but multiple) machines. And the same issue arose
when copying -- via the same procedure noted in the previous paragraph
-- one hard drive to another on the same XP Pro machine.
I have not had a chance to verify that the fdisk /mbr procedure worked
on either of the scenarios outlined in the previous paragraph, but I
speculate that it will work in the second scenario.
For the first, sysprep is thge appopriate solution.
Scienter
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