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resolving BOOT failure after VM to native cloning
After the image has downloaded and sysprep has been successful and created the computer account in AD 2003 domain I will have found that changing the PC 's name will not have taken When I then try and login \I get a Workstation trust failure message indicating that i cannot log into Active Directory domain.

Possible GPO Setting Failure
Note that Microsoft's Sysprep software does not provide a workable backup method in most cases. Sysprep images are for preparation of initial installations of Windows XP only, and support only the exact hardware for which they were made. In cases in which there is a hardware failure a year or more after initial

scandisk problem
And repeats doing that. No error messages or anything. What is this about, and how can I get around it? Lars Albinsson al...@telia.com You need to use sysprep if you're ghosting NT workstations. -- Jordan Mills - Jordan Mills Consulting Zero Administration Networks for Small Businesses http://www.jordanmills.com/

Imaging and HP DL360/DL380 Servers
I use sysprep and then ghost to create the image. When the image is dropped onto the target and mini-setup has run. cmdlines.txt is used to call a script 'Quit with exit code 1 (failure) wscript.Quit(1) End If 'Now use WMI to query the local hardware. '---------------------------------------- 'Get BIOS Version

Ghost for Workstations - AGAIN
Ollie Ol...@oxfordcollege.ac.uk microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Hi, I'm trying to rollout XP Pro using a fully-automated sysprep mini-setup. All goes well until it tries to join the Windows 2000 domain. The machine will sit there for up to 1/2hr and eventually say "The domain could not be accessed due

sp2 - sysprep overwrites default user
shokr...@hotmail.com microsoft public sms tools MaureenDJJ wrote: Is it possible that the settings in sysprep.inf on the image are overwriting the x:\minint directory when the mini setup runs? I have ExtendOEMPartition set to 1. "Bill Phillips" wrote: More detailed logging can also be enabled by creating a file

how do create a hardware independent image?
However, I have become aware that it may not be a straight forward thing to restore the image (in case of a hard drive failure or just wanting to get the hard drive back to a known working state). MS says that you need to run a program called 'Sysprep' from the Windows XP installation disk to deactivate the

Sysprep error on Vista Computer after installing the vista with LTI
Pick "Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure". See if it gets to a BSOD and then report back the message it gives. I believe the mini-setup re-enumerates the hardware...if it can't find the IDE drivers you'll get the behavior you described. Adam -- Visit my PC Tech blog at www.leinss.com/blog.

InaccessibleBootDevice and Sysprep 1.1
I assume I can set up Sysprep to work with Drive Image the same way I can set it up to work with Deploy Center. I've been to PowerQuest's web site and it partition unless you resize the partition before you create the image, and changing your source partition size has some risk of failure/complications).

scandisk problem
I have a client who is running Winnt/2000 Advanced Server. On re-boot he is getting a 'diagnostic and failure prediction'. I want to replace his harddrive. The drive is a 'NTFS' formatted disk. Can I run sysprep and then Ghost to copy and replace the system's drive? Thanks for our help.

restorinbg a system from server failure
From there you sysprep your server. Lastly, use ghost to create an image of your server. If you need to use that image for any reason, restore the image and follow the mini-sysprep wizard to re-name (establish new SID) your server and you are done. On 11/17/05, dilip <dilip.d...@gmail.com> wrote: tmt wrote: I work

Mini setup reboots after sysprep
Jtyc y...@respondtothegroup.com microsoft public cert exam mcsa microsoft public cert exam mcse What we have here... is a failure... to.. communicate. -nosidgen allows you to sysprep a machine while NOT creating a new SID for the destination machine. I believe on worstation, more likely want to do it if the

XP install failure from SYSPREP image
... using tools like sysprep) became necessary in order to clone the software to another set of hardware than that it was originally installed upon. The concerns with your conclusion is that you know when the failure is going to occur and what hardware you will be moving it to before that failure occurs.

Sysprep XP
I used Altiris and sysprep to create the image and deployed it to the 20 computers. Installed diffrent software packages via batch files and application RIP's. I have the client extracted to a directory on the c: drive and I just run the batch file to install. Below is the unattend.txt file that I used.

Help:sysprep didn't work
Laura A. Robinson usefirstinitiallastn...@technologist.com microsoft public cert exam mcsa microsoft public cert exam mcse circa Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:57:13 -0800, in microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcsa, Jtyc (y...@respondtothegroup.com) said, What we have here... is a failure... to.. communicate. And you are correct.

W32Time object access failure audit
"Darrell Gorter[MSFT]" Darre...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hello, I need more information, there can be any number of issues associated with a sysprep failure. What is the exact error code or message that is given? What is in the \windows\panther\setupact.log ( the last

Sysprep on Vista Business
Hi all - getting a weird message when I try to run sysprep with -factory option The mass drivers section is populated all ok - the problem is that when I run #E245 The device installation digital signature failure policy has been elevated from Ignore to Warn due to a proposed replacement of a protected system

Ghost for Workstations - AGAIN
Scott McBurney smcbur...@interfacesoftware.com installshield is6 general Does anyone know anything about using Microsoft Sysprep with Windows 2000? They get this: Internal Failure Error Number: 0x80040707 Description: Any ideas would be helpful here. If they build a machine manually then everything is fine.

Cloned W2K, login failure
Client computers are from XP sp2 image with Sysprep. I'm helping a peer migrate to AD and we have hit a small, annoying problem: The GPO setting "Add the Administrators security group to the roaming user profile share" seems to be working only about 80 percent of the time. This is totally random in nature.

Sysprep problems
Can someone please provide a detail procedure for using XP SP2 sysprep. This USB is my backup in case the primary drive dies. I backup my file separately on CD. Thanks Mike Another approach is to image your HD to the USB HD on a regular schedule. Now if you have a HD failure, remove the broken HD and put in a new