Another option could be that everything worked just fine and you have a
video driver on the "new" machine that is coming up in a mode that is
not able to be displayed. This is very common on flat panel monitors.
I suggest before totally redoing your image, to try to boot the
computer in safe mode and see if you can get in that way.
Best of luck,
Paul Donahue
Information Technology Specialist
CVM Information Technology Center
A227 VMC, Michigan State University
Phone: 353-5551 Fax: 432-2937
>>> David Benjamin <[log in to unmask]> 05/25/04 04:39PM >>>
Andrew,
Before you create your image of the suspect machine, you have to create
a folder on the %systemdrive% named sysprep that includes your
sysprep.exe and also contains a sysprep.inf file. Within the sysprep.inf
file needs to be a OEMPnPDriversPath for ALL of your drivers for ALL of
the machines you wish to deploy the image to.
I've attached a link that you may find helpful.
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6200/rh6207.htm
Sysprep.inf
[Unattended]
ExtendOemPartition
OemPnPDriversPath <- this is the one path that directs sysprep to
the drivers of all systems which you reference.
OemSkipEula
InstallFilesPath
KeepPageFile
ResetSourcePath
UpdateHAL
UpdateUPHAL
UpdateInstalledDrivers
TapiConfigured
example= OemPnPDriversPath=C:\sysprep\oem\"drivers"
What I've done in the past and works great is add ALL drivers for all
HAL's to one folder and referenced that folder within the sysprep.inf
folder.
If you have further questions regarding this, feel free to call.
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBM/tip6200/rh6207.htm
**********************************************************
David Benjamin
Help Desk Manager
Computer Services
Diagnostics Center for Population and Animal Health
Michigan State University
Suite 202
Lansing, MI 48910
517-355-4723
>>> "Mccormack, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> 05/25/04 04:12PM
>>>
I decided to use sysprep/ghost to make an image of Windows XP.
I did not remove any settings/hardware before I ran sysprep.
1. ran sysprep with -pnp and -reseal option.
2. System shutdown and I use my ghost boot disk
3. Created an image of the hard drive
4. I restarted the system, I ran sysprep on.
I burned the ghost images to a 6 CDR disk. I also copied then to an
USB
external drive.
I decided to test the ghost images on a similar but not identical
machine.
The hardware was slightly different, but had the same type of CPU.
After I loaded the ghost images, the system rebooted. Now when I try
to
load XP, the system will not boot. (The screen is black and there is
no
response). I can not boot using safe mode either. The system will not
boot
into any mode of windows XP. I waited four hours for the computer to
load
XP. I tried using the recovery console commands fixboot and chkdsk.
Nothing works. I can probably run a repair, but have not tried it.
Do you have any idea of what could be causing the problem?
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