Interesting. Where did you get this info - from gdisk or fdisk? Having two identical entries shouldnt matter so long as your correct partition is marked as active and obviously contains OS files and boot code.
In your case it appears that second partition is just a duplicate of the first one. Do you have any 3rd party boot utilities installed on this machine? This is very old version of ghost and I wonder whether it is getting confused with boot code utility. If you have no boot utilities installed can you then please run gdisk and post its output on the machine that you clone from and that you clone to after the clone.

Hi,

First the command I used is "Gdisk 1  /status".

> Having two identical entries shouldnt matter so long as your correct partition is marked as active and obviously contains OS files and boot code.

I understand what you're saying, but the problem is that the hard disk's size is 250 GB (before formatting) and we saw 2 primary partition with both 233 GB. How could that happen?
And I already tried to activate the second primary partition (with and without deleting the first one), but windows continues to reboot and reboot....

> The PC reboots continously unless the second partition is removed.
I would like to correct what I wrote... after multiple image load... I noticed that isn't true for all the time.

Here are the tests I did yesterday,

1. Gdisk 1 /del /all + load the image ---> result = everything fine
2. Gdisk 1 /del /p:2 + load the image ---> result = everything fine
3. Gdisk 1 wipe... (not sure the syntax) + image --> result = windows boot the first time --> personalization begins --> after the first reboot... the PC reboots continously
4. load the image in one PC that already has the problem --> result = windows boot the first time --> personalization begins --> after the first reboot... the PC reboots continously

I will try again today to see if the results will be the same to confirm yesterday's tests.

>Do you have any 3rd party boot utilities installed on this machine? This is very old version of ghost and I wonder whether it is getting confused with boot code utility. If you have
>no boot utilities installed can you then please run gdisk and post its output on the machine that you clone from and that you clone to after the clone.

No, I don't have any boot manager installed. I will try to use a newer ghostcast version. But before I got this problem, I'm using Ghost Console version 12 to load all images.
I forgot to mention that with gdisk command, I received the following message: "Gdisk (w) fixed disk 1 has overlapping drive".

Thanks again for your help

Cool so you are using gdisk. Gdisk will indeed report overlapping partitions like you saw. You can of course run gdisk 1 /del /all before the clone but if you run image to disk clone then ghost will wipe all partitions for you anyhow. Ghost will only create as many partitions as there are in the image hence why I am confused. If you do image to partition clone and then ghost will keep your partitions and will only restore to the one you chosen but in image-to-disk it will wipe them clean. You did use image-to-disk cloning?

Windows should not generally care if you have overlapping partitions but it may and perhaps boot loader gets confused about two identical partitions.

Ghost 12 - I am confused now. There is no version 12 of "real Ghost". Classic Ghost was last sold as a consumer release back in 2003. Then it was only sold as Ghost solution suite. GSS 1.0 (ghost 8.1), GSS 1.1 (ghost 8.3), GSS 2.0 (ghost 11.0) and GSS 2.6 (ghost 11.5). 12 was a consumer release that has nothing in common with classic Ghost product line...

 I was too busy today. Sorry for the delay.
To answer your questions. Yes I use multicast image.gho to disk. 
Yes ghost should wipe out all partition when we ghost all the disk.  But don't know why after the loading the image I saw 4 partitions instead of 3.
And I'm sure that my image has only 3 partitions (in fact 2, but gdisk show 3 because the logical et extended partition)

When I talk about the Ghost Console version 12, it is the Symantec_Ghost_Solution_Suite_2.0.2 (so I made a mistake). 
So when we use multicast server the ghost version is 11.0.

The solution I found is to delete all the partition or the "virtual" partition before sending back the image. 

I think that symantec ghost has some bugs with my image or hardware configuration, because I found an other weird problem. 

  Here the problem I'm talking about:

    When I boot with my multicast cd, the computer I saw in some PC a message like "Enable start TCP/IP... Can not find DHCP server". 
But after multiples tests we found that the DHCP works well, no ports disable, the cable is correct...


Once again, the solution is to delete all partition + create an new primary partition (example, just 1% of the hard drive size) then load the image again to the workstation.

I'm taking off tomorow... I'll come back Monday.

Thank you again for your help. I really appreciated it.

Now we are talking! So you have a GBP installed on this machine. Make sure that clone switches are not set to keep current GBP. By default ghost keeps GBP if it finds one. If you are cloning from Console there is a checkbox to preserve GBP or not.

As I know ghost client can be installed in a different partition. But I installed it thru Windows. Does it create  an GBP anyway? Because I can't see it when I use gdisk to see the disk status.

Sorry for the delay.... again.. I was sick.

I really appreciate your help. Thank you so much.

Ghost client cannot be installed to a GBP. GBP (ghost boot partition) is an old concept of a hidden partition that ghost client can boot to when it needs to perform an operation that cannot be done in the main OS, ie. cloning. If you run gdisk from main OS then you will see this partition as hidden with label GHOSTBOOT or something similar. From DOS or Winpe you will not see it.

Can you please confirm what do you see when you run gdisk/gdisk32 from the main OS, eg. from Windows XP?

Here's the result when I execute gdisk32 1 /status from Windows XP SP3.

Disk  Partitions  Cylinders  Heads  Sectors  Mbytes  Model
  1        3        30401     255      63  238475.2  ST3250318AS

Partition  Status   Type     Volume Label   Mbytes   System   Usage
 C:  1        A    PRIMARY                233460.2  NTFS/HPFS  98%
     2             EXTENDED                 5012.5              2%
 D:  3             LOGICAL                  5012.4  FAT32       2%

So you only have two partitions - one primary and one logical and when you image this to a GHO how many partitions do you see in GHO when either use Ghost explorer or running ghost and selecting image->to->partition? If you still see two partitions in both cases but when you deploy GHO you end up with three then there has to be a bug of some sort. This version is very old - before my time with ghost. I'd suggest trying out latest GSS 2.5 (ghost 11.5) from www.ghost.com. Check your contract - you might also be eligible for a upgrade.