are you transferring the image to identical computers. If the hardware is different it may be the reason why it dosnt work
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Browse All TopicsI am trying to make an image of windows 7 for my company. When I restore it on my laptop, it keeps getting the error 0x000000e, saying that it won't boot.
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try acronis instead of ghost. its much more reliable and robust. You have an option to create a boot disk once its been installed. Free trial available
http://www.acronis.com/hom
suit yourself but heres a thread that may interest you. They cant even get ghost14 working
http://social.technet.micr
Then your problem is in the fact that 100MB partition has Boot folder of Windows.
Copy manually this folder from 100MB partition to C: drive.
Then backup and restore machine. After that you will need to boot the PC from Windows DVD and run Repair. So it could update boot sector of C: drive. Since then it boots. I reproduced the problem and it is exactly in 100MB partition.
I can do all that without copying the partition to the C drive. The point of making an image is to have it ready to go once it's been transferred to a new system.
I got it to work, if I do a local ghost to a hard drive, from Disk to disk. The only problem is it has to save the entire drive, including unpartitioned space, which makes it a huge file.
Windows 7 has a free imaging tool built in that works well:
http://techblog.precisioni
http://www.intowindows.com
Partition Magic will not see it.
I used Paragon Drive Backup - Volume Explorer to copy out the data from service partition.
You can do it easily with trial version: http://www.paragon-softwar
First copy the folder to system partition.
Then make sure you have install DVD of Windows.
Then in Drive Backup 9 delete 100MB partition.
Then restart the machine from Windows DVD and perform Repair. Otherwise it will not boot. After repair boot to Windows.
Since then create backup of system partition and restore it when needed.
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Deploying Windows 7 with WDS http://www.petenetlive.com
WDS http://www.petenetlive.com
WDS with Ghost http://www.petenetlive.com
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by: PeteLongPosted on 2009-10-21 at 08:02:49ID: 25624651
are you using the 16 or the 32 bit version of ghost? have you tries using ghost and WDS? you might stand a better chance http://www.petenetlive.com /Tech/Wind ows/WDSGHO ST/WDSandG HOST.htm
So me versions were not compatible with Vista http://service1.symantec.c om/SUPPORT /on-techno logy.nsf/d ocid/20071 7424270519 8 are you sure W7 is supported?