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  • 1.  Restoring Ghost image from a different PC

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 11:04 AM
    I know that strictly speaking its not wise to do this but in the past
    I've got this to work by changing the IDE driver etc on the original
    machine to the generic microsoft one. Then when I restore to slightly
    different hardware it boots and then loads the correct driver.

    However. got two laptops, both panasonic, and this is not working.
    Getting innaccessible boot device after ghost restore.  I'm guessing it may be that the old laptop was an IDE drive and this is SATA or something.

    Is there any way to fix this? Boot from Windows 2000 pro cd and repair?
     



  • 2.  RE: Restoring Ghost image from a different PC

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 12:48 PM
    first you can sysprep your source computer while populating the "mass storage controller" section to include the drivers for both machine mass storage controllers.  second you can use deployAnywhere to inject drivers into your destination computer.  third you could run a repair install but it will be messy and you will probably have to reinstall some apps


  • 3.  RE: Restoring Ghost image from a different PC

    Posted Aug 13, 2009 04:22 AM
    Thanks. Can you be more specific on step 1?


  • 4.  RE: Restoring Ghost image from a different PC

    Posted Aug 13, 2009 10:34 AM
    Can you check your laptops and see if they have a bios option called "Compatibility Mode"?
    They are probably set to AHCI mode by default if their drives are SATA, so setting to compatibility mode may allow the system to boot using the IDE drivers, after which you can install the correct SATA drivers before resetting the bios back to AHCI.

    Sysprep is an operating system "build" utility that prepares an image created on one specific hardware platform for deployment to other hardware platforms. You can add drivers to a nominated "PnP" folder for plug and play to locate during machine boot, but unless you have previous build experience with Sysprep, the learning curve can be quite steep.


    Frankly, if you can't get the image working with compatibility mode, you would be better off building the machines from scratch.


  • 5.  RE: Restoring Ghost image from a different PC

    Posted Aug 19, 2009 06:58 AM
    Disk in new laptop is definitely SATA AHCI whereas old one was IDE so this is definitely the problem.

    Had a look at the BIOS and it flags the HD as SATA AHCI. Doesnt seem to be any option to change to compatibility mode.

    Looking at Acronis true image now which does have an option to restore to different hardware - universal restore.