Vista & Ghost

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Andrew

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
 
Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat :o)

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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 said:
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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Alan Adams
 
Sorry Andre, but I do use Symantec Ghost and it's always worked :os

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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
 
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