You might want to capture some logs from the DS side using RemoteTrace.

Details here: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO9848

Can you deploy the XP image manually?

I am able to deploy XP image noremally but when I am trying to do it on a windows 7 machine,I am facing this problem... I used erase disk task in the job before deploying the image but erase disk task finishes usccessfully but the deploy image job fails after that.Should I reboot the machine / execute create partition task before deploying image job after erase disk task..?

Thanks in Advance....

Create partition task? Yes, I'd include that after the erase disk and before the deploy image tasks.

HTH

Prasad,

Is there any particular reason you are using Rapid Deploy? is your task working fine if you capture the image usin Ghost?

Windows 7 has a 100MB partition called system reserved partition, so if your image (or the machine you created the image from) has this partition, rapid deploy will not be able to handle it.

I would recomend using Ghost for your imaging tasks.

Hope this helps.

I agree with the previous post Ghost works nicely with bcdedit and other Windows 7 features. The rdeploy issue seems to be a temporary condition, if you reassing the task to deploy image does it work?

Nelo

After erase disk task when I re ran the deploy job it started and finsihed successfully deploying the XP image......

Nothing particular in using rapid deploy.....becuase after capturing the image with rapid deploy, I am having the options to exclude drives which I could not do in Ghost...

Also now I could successfully deploy and capture windows 7 Image using Ghost...

One more thing is that when I am trying to run  the Image capture job for windows 7 , the agent is picking up the task but the Preapre for Image Capture task is not finsihing at any time.So, I need to manully run the Sysprep and capture the image.It is not returing any error just saying task is running and I could see the Sysprep running in Task manager.But it is not finishing and I could see the no Guid present on the Altiris agent settings tab.But it is not finishing and rebooting to PXE.

Why the Prepare for image capture task is not finishing in windows 7 machines...?

Thanks in Advance...

So be patient.  We do more than a simple run of Sysprep on image capture.

If ghost fails, it's entirely possible it can't see the drive - especially if it fails that fast.  There's generally a ghost error log that will tell you exactly why it fails BTW.