Hi everyone,
Having a strange issue I can't figure out:
I've cleaned up the factory Windows 7 image on one of several Lenovo workstations we bought recently and created a ghost image of that drive. The image, once copied back to the hard drive, fails to boot completely and instead dumps me to the Win7 recovery utility after a reboot.
I know that these Lenovo machines have an unusual MBR however I do get past the initial Windows 7 splash screen before this happens, and I ran ghost with the -IB switch, so I believe the MBR was copied correctly. I've confirmed the same happens with a stock image from one of the other machines, which should eliminate my changes or a corrupted image as the source of trouble...
I'm creating, and restoing, this image with the drive removed and attached to another machine, using a standard Ghost boot CD. Version is 11.0.2. I know that Win7 support was introduced with the next version, however from what I see everyone's issues with the older version and Win 7 seemed to involve the various GSS applications, none of which apply in this case.
Has anyone experienced similar problems? Do I indeed need v. 11.5?
Thanks,
Drew
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Did you copy the hidden partition?
Windows 7 operates with two partitions, and unless you grab both for your image, then I believe you will not be successful in cloning the operating system.
Try creating a "Drive" image rather than a "Partition" image.
If Rescue and Recovery are installed on your Lenovo then you may also have a linux based boot manager in the mix, but unless you really need R&R then it's better to dump it entirely and go with a standard Win 7 install with the appropriate drivers.
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The image does include all
The image does include all three partitions, unfortunately.
I'd prefer a clean Win7 install too, without Lenovo's recovery weirdness, but they don't provide any real Windows install media aside from burnable recovery disks which are going to result in the same partition scheme and image which already didn't work.
Lenovo did provide a set of disks for downgrade to XP, though they're Lenovo branded again and I expect they'll still leave us with the Lenovo recovery stuff. I'm going to install that on one of the machines and attempt to image/restore from that drive. Should at least narrow it down to either Win7 or something specific with the Lenovo box.
Will advise.
Thanks,
Drew
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