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I configured a new task to create an image from a remote PC. The task was setup to create the image and run Sysprep. Both the console and the remote Pc indicated that the Image creation was sucessful, but the remote PC is looping at the following:

sending status to my server ip address
acknowledged by my server ip address
sending status to my server ip address
acknowledged by my server ip address
sending status to my server ip address
acknowledged by my server ip address

I tried rebooting the remote PC, but it still boots up to Dos and loops. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Craig

Hi Craig,

This is the intended behavior of the client after sysprep. The reason is, if we reboot the client to Windows after image creation, it will go through the mini setup. Since there is no sysprep.inf file, client will wait till some one manually go through the mini-setup.

If the client is easily accessible, pressing Ctrl+C will boot it back to Windows. (Or press Ctrl+X and wait till it go to DOS, then give the command 'ghreboot').

If client is not easily accessible, you can run a clone task with a correct sysprep.inf file so that it will automatically complete the mini-setup.

Krish

Simplest way to get the machine to boot will be to change the active partition. Use a windows 98 boot disk, boot the machine, run FDISK and set the active partition to the operating system partition rather than the virtual or ghost partition

Thanks for all the help!

Hi Bryan,

If you use floppy boot and fdisk, it is necessary to delete Virtual Partition too. Otherwise OS will get confused with Virtual Partition.

If you use ghreboot, which is in the client, it will do all these things for you.

Indeed, I was suggesting this only so he could back into windows to see what state the machine was in.