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Trouble with Sysprep and Windows 2000
LockedHere is my situation: I have created a Power Quest Drive Image image of a Sysprepped hard drive that I can use to setup new computers. That way, when I bring a new computer online, all of the needed software and settings are already on the drive andI don’t have to set and load each individual program. This works fine on a new computer that already has a OS installed. I just restore my Image over that OS and everything works fine.
My problem is with systems that have not had any OS installed before, or with a new hard drive. The image restores fine, but when the system starts to load 2000, it Blue screens with “Inaccessible_boot_device.” This has happened several times, and I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.
I have checked the partitions that I created with PQ Partition Magic and the first partition is active. I have tried resizing the partition, both before and after restoring the image, but same result. I have tried different hard drives, Western Digital and Maxtor, but again, same results.
This is really frustrating, because once again I am having to install a new computer, program by program which is very time consuming. I know that the Drive Image works fine, I’ve used it many times with no problems, exceptfor new systems without an OS. This doesn’t seem to be computer specific, I’ve tried on Dells, Gateways, and generic ones that I’ve built. Tried both Intel chips as well as AMD, same results.
I think that I am forgetting a basic setting for the partitions that I am creating, I just can’t figure out what. I can load an OS onto the system, then reboot and THEN restore my image and it works fine too. I would just like to avoid that extra step. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Roger