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Hello,

I dont understand what i'm doing wrong, hopefully someone could help me.

I've trying to make an image of a machine through the ghost console with sysprep to run after the image is restored to a computer and also including connecting to the domain automatically and i only need to type a new computer name in after the restore as well, I've got that sorted. It's just making a image of the computer that it won't do, i made a  New Image Task, i typed in the name which i put "Acer 4072" then i ticked Image is located on the client Machine and edited that with Drive Letter as "C" and the Path\filename.gho i put image\acer.gho, pressed ok. Status said No such file so i pressed ok then i assume it meant to make an image from that when i run the Task........... I also made a folder on the C drive of the machine i wanted to make an image from so it matched the Path in the Image Properties in the ghost console.

So when i run the task it gets it runs the sysprep then restarts the computer and get as far as about to start creating a image and the task fails on the CLONE step.

Sorry if i'm being stupid but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
James

Any suggestions?????

I have had simular issues when attempting to store the image on the clients HDD, I have had better sucess if there is another drive installed. It seems you are refering to a laptop. If you have no 2nd drive I would sugest that you store the clone image on the server. This will guarentee that the image can be found.

Try the above just for trouble shooting, if nonething else this will allow you to ensure that that the clone image is available.

Also this is still an issue for me when trying to clone accross a gateway, if you are trying to clone a box outside your gateway, I would suggest that you try inside the gateway first.

You may want to ensure that if you have a SATA HDD on the laptop, that there are driverd for that device in WINPE. This could also cause this to happen.

I am by no means an expert, but have been playing around with it for a while on my network. I had to put in drivers to support Dell E6500's. I still cannot image a box outside my gateway. This may be due the the Domain I currently reside on as well.

What do ya mean by inside and outside the gateway?

Tried doing on to the server came up with the same error, but when i browse it's browsing to open a GHO file not save but i typed in "acer" anyway for a filename and pressed open and and it didnt complain. Is it me or is that a bit backwards?????

The harddrive is IDE Hitachi Harddrive but i used a Acer 290 Harddrive which was an IDE as well the different thing that i did with that was, i'd already made an image before hand. So when made a new image task i browsed for this image i had already made and it worked fine not a problem but i think it looked like it had overwritten it with a newer one which was from the laptop.

Whats the difference between WinPE and WInPE -512 please?

Thanks
James

Inside/outside gateway, really isn't an issue for the moment for you.  But I believe Mike is referring to a gateway or router being between your Acer (the client computer you want to make an image of) and the server where you run the Ghost Console (and thus the Ghostcast Server.)

I'd take it a step simpler as Mike suggested.  First, create an image, but don't store it on the local drive - don't check the image is stored on the client machine.  Instead, let the image be stored on the Ghostcast Server itself.  I've found this to always work better, especially at first.  It avoids any potential drive space problems on the client as well - cloning a 80G hard drive that's 60G full and trying to store that image onto the remaining 20G of that same drive may be a bit tough.  Obviously, depends on your usage.  But again, skip that part and just stick with making the image and storing it on the GCS.

Once you have the Ghost file(s) on the GCS, see if you can just push it back to the same client.  Just a quick test - it came from that machine, it should easily go back onto that machine.  It's just a basic sanity test to make sure everything is working ok.

Once those two most basic operations are succesful, then you can start going down the path of storing the image on the client machine itself.  Usually, I do this by having two partitions.  The proverbial C: where everything is, and then a second DOS based D: partition that only stores the actual Ghost image file(s.)  So when I restore my C: drive, I'm basically reading a file  from the D: drive and erasing the C: drive and putting the image there.  I've never been trusting of having the Ghots image file on C: and then trynig to restore C: (how do you read a file from a partition I just blew away?)

Good luck,
PH