lordasb
06.06.2007, 10:39
fokes, any ideas as we are stuck and as normal telephone support comes out with a cracker of a answer... " it seams ghosting is too new. and not supported"
have a master machine installed and setup, running windows xp pro, and about 60 bits of school software, network settings and smartboard. setup time was about 2 days, so dont want to have to do the other 11 manualy..
i have taken the image via the network then sent to a new machine, and bingo, it sits at the bios screen, now going into the detailed checks so i can see what the bios is checking the hard disk is fine and its just hanging somewhere on the bit between the bios and where the hard disk takes over.
ok test 2, take hard disk out of master machine and do a ghost disk to disk to a fresh machine, image completes fine, replace hard disk back in machine, attempt to boot new machine, bingo same problem just sits at the bios.
after every test the master machine boots fine.
have tried the master hard disk in both new machines, its fine
have reinstalled xp pro from cd on both hard disks, it takes the install fine
have run spinrite all 3 disks which are fine
ghost does not report any issues with the master disk
have tried a fixboot,fixmbr and chkdsk on the new machines after they have been imaged, still no boot
this is the first time we have had an issue with ghosting machines from tosh in 7 years, (have imaged about 50 machines so far this year, also some of this model) just woundering if they have changed anything in this batch or version of the bios?
answers please asap, many thanks
andy
have a master machine installed and setup, running windows xp pro, and about 60 bits of school software, network settings and smartboard. setup time was about 2 days, so dont want to have to do the other 11 manualy..
i have taken the image via the network then sent to a new machine, and bingo, it sits at the bios screen, now going into the detailed checks so i can see what the bios is checking the hard disk is fine and its just hanging somewhere on the bit between the bios and where the hard disk takes over.
ok test 2, take hard disk out of master machine and do a ghost disk to disk to a fresh machine, image completes fine, replace hard disk back in machine, attempt to boot new machine, bingo same problem just sits at the bios.
after every test the master machine boots fine.
have tried the master hard disk in both new machines, its fine
have reinstalled xp pro from cd on both hard disks, it takes the install fine
have run spinrite all 3 disks which are fine
ghost does not report any issues with the master disk
have tried a fixboot,fixmbr and chkdsk on the new machines after they have been imaged, still no boot
this is the first time we have had an issue with ghosting machines from tosh in 7 years, (have imaged about 50 machines so far this year, also some of this model) just woundering if they have changed anything in this batch or version of the bios?
answers please asap, many thanks
andy