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04.28.2008 at 08:51AM PDT, ID: 23359133
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Reimaged Computer Will Not Boot

Asked by rfdelie in Norton Ghost Backup Software

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I have been using Ghost for some time to restore computers here in our learning center. I use boot disks that map a drive to a server and I pull down the image through the ghost.exe GUI. Yesterday the wiredest thing started happening.

When a computer is re-imaged there is about a 40% chance that it will boot to the windows recovery screen where the user can choose the "last known good configuration", no matter what you choose the computer then tries to boot and gets to the first bar on the XP Splash screen and goes strait back to the last known good configuration screen. There it will stay in that loop.

I have disabled the automatic reboot on error and received the blue screen of death. This persists for multiple computers and across multiple images, some come out ok and some do not. I have tried when imaging 15 computers and just 1. It stays at about a 40% failure rate.

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[+][-]04.30.2008 at 04:08AM PDT, ID: 21469521

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[+][-]04.30.2008 at 10:43AM PDT, ID: 21472960

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Zone: Norton Ghost Backup Software
Tags: Norton Ghost, Ghost - Windows XP, Dell, Optiplex, 745
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Solution Provided By: rfdelie
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