Vista & Ghost

Zack, did you even read the issue? He is using Ghost but having problems
with it trying to image his Vista drive. <sigh>
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"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat )
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> "Andrew" <andrewking@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
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>> Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another
>> imaging tool?
>> We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and
>> are having problems with the boot record.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Andrew
>>

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>

What's the "issue with the boot record" you're having.

The thing I ran into is that the default BCD entries use
"partition"-type device references, and a "partition" reference in BCD
appears to include both the drive signature and the partition number
in the information stored.

After restoring a Ghost image (made and restored with default
settings), if you restored to a different partition this would cause
the default BCD entries to break, but even if you restored to the same
partition, the default of Ghost is to reset the disk signature, so
they still broke.

My batch-file for "preparing" a Vista installation for imaging
includes the following:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot
bcdedit /set {memdiag} device boot

This just switches the most common entries from "partition"-type
devices references to "boot" device references, which appears to
simply mean "yeah, whatever I booted from, use that". As such, no
matter which partition you restore to or what the disk signature has
become, the entries still work.

That's at least what it took in my case. If you issue seems
different, perhaps expand on what you see going wrong.

"Andrew" <andrewking@nospam.msn.com> wrote:

> Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another
> imaging tool?
> We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are
> having problems with the boot record.
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>

Alan Adams

Sorry Andre, but I do use Symantec Ghost and it's always worked s

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Zack, did you even read the issue? He is using Ghost but having problems
> with it trying to image his Vista drive. <sigh>
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> Andre
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> "Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:O2us80vRGHA.4264@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

>> Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat )
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor)
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
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>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
>>
>>
>> --- Original message follows ---
>> "Andrew" <andrewking@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:O91D9JvRGHA.1868@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

>>> Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another
>>> imaging tool?
>>> We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and
>>> are having problems with the boot record.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Andrew
>>>

>>
>>

>
>

first,you should boot into MS-DOS via 3.5" disk,then you can run Ghost,then
make a gho image.this is the only way to solve the problem

"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:e0i$XU3RGHA.336@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gb l...

> Sorry Andre, but I do use Symantec Ghost and it's always worked s
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
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> rights.
> All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my
> employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that
> up!
>
>
> --- Original message follows ---
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u3XgzdwRGHA.4960@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

>> Zack, did you even read the issue? He is using Ghost but having problems
>> with it trying to image his Vista drive. <sigh>
>> --
>> Andre
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>>
>> "Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:O2us80vRGHA.4264@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

>>> Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat )
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zack Whittaker
>>> Microsoft Beta (Windows Server R2 Beta Mentor)
>>> ?ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>>> ?MSBlog on ResDev: http://msblog.resdev.net
>>> ?ZackNET Forum: www.zacknet.co.uk/forum
>>> ?VistaBase: www.vistabase.co.uk
>>> ?This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>>> not
>>> of my employer, best friend, mother or cat. Let's be clear on that one!
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Original message follows ---
>>> "Andrew" <andrewking@nospam.msn.com> wrote in message
>>> news:O91D9JvRGHA.1868@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another
>>>> imaging tool?
>>>> We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost
>>>> and are having problems with the boot record.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>
>>>

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