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Imaging a dual-boot Windows machine?
bigpanda
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Hi all,
Trying to get a dual boot imaging system in place for work right now and it seems no one at any of our other offices has had to tackle this yet so I get to be the sacrificial lamb.
Here's the lowdown...
Using Ghost Enterprise for pulling/pushing images from our server.
Machines (HP nc6400) dual boot into Windows XP on 2 partitions on 1 physical drive (there is a 3rd system restore partition that's not entirely necessary - haven't decided if I'm going to retain this in the final image).
Tried using Sysprep on the 2nd partition but it seems to like operating on the C: drive as opposed to
, E:, F: etc. where the other partition resides. This causes a number of issues once you reboot into the 2nd partition.
Tried creating a new partition image of what I wanted for the 2nd partition on the C: drive so that I could get a bootable Sysprep'ed image of what I need on the 2nd partition but forgot to realize that everything in the registry would still be pointing to C: instead of the new drive letter once that's pushed to a new system as the drive.
Has anyone out there had any success in imaging a dual boot system for enterprise deployment (so it regenerates SIDs, etc.)?
Thanks in advance,
BP
Trying to get a dual boot imaging system in place for work right now and it seems no one at any of our other offices has had to tackle this yet so I get to be the sacrificial lamb.
Here's the lowdown...
Using Ghost Enterprise for pulling/pushing images from our server.
Machines (HP nc6400) dual boot into Windows XP on 2 partitions on 1 physical drive (there is a 3rd system restore partition that's not entirely necessary - haven't decided if I'm going to retain this in the final image).
Tried using Sysprep on the 2nd partition but it seems to like operating on the C: drive as opposed to
, E:, F: etc. where the other partition resides. This causes a number of issues once you reboot into the 2nd partition.Tried creating a new partition image of what I wanted for the 2nd partition on the C: drive so that I could get a bootable Sysprep'ed image of what I need on the 2nd partition but forgot to realize that everything in the registry would still be pointing to C: instead of the new drive letter once that's pushed to a new system as the
drive.Has anyone out there had any success in imaging a dual boot system for enterprise deployment (so it regenerates SIDs, etc.)?
Thanks in advance,
BP
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