Ghost Solution Suite

Hello,

I am trying to use the Ghost Solution Suite (2.5.1) to create an image backup image of a 32-bit Windows 7 installation, and then restore it.  I have the suite installed on a Windows 2008 server domain controller, and remotely installed the client on the Windows 7 machine.  I created an image of the Windows 7 machine using WinPE-512, and the creation of the image seemed to go fine.  I can use the Ghost Explorer to view the contents of the image, and it looks like all the partitions were created.  When I restore the image, ghost runs on the client, the restore happens, but when the computer reboots to try to boot into the new image, I get a Boot Manager error ("an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data" 0xc0000001).  I googled around and tried various commands from the restore disk to try to get it to boot, but I was unable, and even if I were able to get it to boot, I still have a problem with the clone/restore process.  Anything I can look at to try to figure out why this is happening? When I use the restore disk, I can use diskpart to see that I have the 100MB system reserved partition, as well as the WIndows installation partition (my old C: drive, now assigned as D:).

Any help would be appreciated.

First of all, have you identically cloned the partition structure of the source on the target?  If you are dealing with a vendor image on the source, there may be a maintenance partition and a recovery partition as well, and for a Win 7 image to work when cloned, the partition numbering must remain unchanged. If your machine is a Lenovo with their boot manager present, this too could cause the issues you are seeing. the -ib switch when creating the image is intended for non-standard boot sectors.

If the target machine has a UEFI bios which is enabled, your version of Ghost will not work as it does not support UEFI. The new version 3.0 (currently in beta) does support UEFI.