Trying to clone a dual-boot (XP/Vista) system

  • Thread starter Thread starter Pensionada
  • Start date Start date
P

Pensionada

We are a small training center for elderly people. All of us are volunteers.
Through a grant we just received 10 new (identical) systems and we decided to
make them dual-boot. (XP/Vista). We installed everything, the OS,
applications and data on one system, on 3 partitions (C=XP, D=Vista, E=Data).
Next we wanted to clone this on all other systems.

Using Acronis TrueImage Home 11 we made a backup on an external disc and a
bootable CD with the program.

After the restore on a new system, XP turned out to be running OK, but Vista
does not.
When starting Vista we get the following error:
Title Bar: Rundll32.exe Entry Point Not Found
Message: The procedure entry point SdbGetAppCompatDataSize could not be
located in the dynamic link library apphelp.dll.
This is soon followed by other errors and a "Your user profile was not
loaded correctly"...

Also, we noticed that C and D drives get switched in a real funny way. This
happens also in XP!
Googling we found a similar problem reported in Technology questions, but no
responses.
We need to have all 10 systems running by the end of this week and the only
solution now seems to re-install Vista (and all its applications) on all
systems by hand, which seems so dumb....

Please help!
 
=?Utf-8?B?UGVuc2lvbmFkYQ==?= said:
We are a small training center for elderly people. All of us are volunteers.
Through a grant we just received 10 new (identical) systems and we decided to
make them dual-boot. (XP/Vista). We installed everything, the OS,
applications and data on one system, on 3 partitions (C=XP, D=Vista, E=Data).
Next we wanted to clone this on all other systems.

Using Acronis TrueImage Home 11 we made a backup on an external disc and a
bootable CD with the program.

After the restore on a new system, XP turned out to be running OK, but Vista
does not.
When starting Vista we get the following error:
Title Bar: Rundll32.exe Entry Point Not Found
Message: The procedure entry point SdbGetAppCompatDataSize could not be
located in the dynamic link library apphelp.dll.
This is soon followed by other errors and a "Your user profile was not
loaded correctly"...

Also, we noticed that C and D drives get switched in a real funny way. This
happens also in XP!
Googling we found a similar problem reported in Technology questions, but no
responses.
We need to have all 10 systems running by the end of this week and the only
solution now seems to re-install Vista (and all its applications) on all
systems by hand, which seems so dumb....

Please help!
Click to expand...

Did you use VistaBootPro? It can restore the boot-option.
 
But booting is not the problem. The "clone" boots OK: XP runs Ok, it is only
during the Vista startup that we get these errors.
But thanks for thinking with us.

Groetjes uit Best
 
=?Utf-8?B?UGVuc2lvbmFkYQ==?= said:
But booting is not the problem. The "clone" boots OK: XP runs Ok, it is only
during the Vista startup that we get these errors.
But thanks for thinking with us.
Click to expand...

I see, Vista was already started. I think the changed C and D are
the reason. It is very strange. Is Vista even C if started? If so,
the only solution is installing Vista again. It should be stay D.

Ant at what moment the error occurs?
 
Henk,
We have not been able to figure it out and gave up. We had a deadline to
make, so we installed Vista and its applications by hand on all systems. This
was a lot of work but we were ready in time.
Looking back, there are 2 possible causes: 1) perhaps something went wrong
in the installation of the first system (the original) with caused the clones
to fail and 2)-most likely- it has something to do with the Deepfreeze
program that was installed on the system.
As this was a one-time action, we do not really care too much: it has been
resolved be it with a lot of work.
Thanks for your interest and support.
 
Back
Top