HELP!! BAD_POOL_HEADER After re-imaging...

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Ray

I have 3 dell Latitude 110L laptops that ended up getting virus and
spyware loaded. We felt like we had all the drivers necessary - and we
were redistributing them to new owners, so we wiped them out started
over from scratch. Loaded windows, drivers for network, audio, video,
wireless, chipset, etc. Machine ran great. created Ghost Image for
distribution to the other 2 laptops and for future reloading.

Feeling like we were ready to go, we added the machine to the domain
and rebooted. No problems.... Next - we renamed the machine to match
our naming scheme. Upon rebooting this time, we receive the
Bad_Pool_Header message - every time - on all 3 laptops. A little
trial and error has led me to the conclusion that it has something to
do with the naming. We've tried different names ... same result.

I need any help that can be offered....
Thanks in Advance....
Ray
 
Ray,

Because these machines are on a domain they need to be removed from the
domain server under Domain systems or Domain computers and then need to be
added back to the domain. To verify this remove the PC's from the domain
and reboot and see if the error is gone. If so them proceed to remove the
machines from the domain. If you are using MAC addressing you may also need
to remove the MAC addresses from DHCP.

Andy
 
Worked so far on 2 of the 3 I was having problems with... I had gone
through AD and deleted the machine name account... but hadn't gone
through the actual process on the laptop of switching from the domain
account to a workgroup - THEN removing the account in AD and looking
for a reservation in DHCP by mac address. Once I did all that - then
rejoined the domain, it seems to be working fine. I tried on a the
third and final laptop and it failed to work - but I think I may have
skipped a step due to interruptions and dragging the process out over
about 5 hours... so I'm re-imaging and doing that one again..

Thanks for your assistance
Ray
 
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