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HELP...Trying to ghost IBM Thinkpad R51 laptop

Asked by rsnellman in Windows XP Operating System, PC Laptops, Norton Ghost Backup Software

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Pro, Symantec Ghost, IBM Thinkpad

Hi, I am trying to ghost some IBM Thinkpad R51 laptops, but the IBM Rescue & Recovery hidden partition is making life difficult.  After I have ghosted the laptops, they boot up with an error message that repeats.  Something about a signature error or something along those lines.  I have run into this before and couldn't recall how I fixed it...I vaguely recall using the fixmbr command, but when I do that it boots back up into the IBM Rescue & Recovery partition.  Giving options to recovery to factory status.

I did notice when booting to an XP Pro SP3 CD after this happens, it displays the two partition, 1- D:\Windows  2- C:\MinINT .  Now I found that a bit weird.  

What makes this even stranger, is when I go through the configuring of the ghost for the client side, it shows the same thing on the partitions page of the ghost setup.

The master ghost image laptop is the EXACT same model that I am trying to ghost to.

We have a Ghost Server that we are using and it has worked fine with several ghosting sessions this year.

I am convinced it has something to do with the IBM Rescue & Recovery partition.

I tried deleted that partition and now the laptop boots up saying no OS found.

So, am I on the right track with the fixmbr or have I totally lost my mind?

Anyone else run into this scenario?  If so, how did you fix it?

I hope I haven't left anything out.

Thanks for your time.

Bob
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Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Pro, Symantec Ghost, IBM Thinkpad
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