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.
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.
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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?
