Background: We recently had a hard drive that was showing signs of failing. User data partition wasn’t unlocking automatically (the data could therefore not be copied off) and the recovery keys weren’t working when using an e-sata hard drive dock but they did work during boot.
Requirements:
Capturing the image:
Deploying the image:
To simplify, at step 4:
Browse to x:\Program Files\Symantec\Deployment\Ghost and run ghostXX.exe.
add the command line options to "enable" those features. This removes the need to take those steps.
From: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO99984 and http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH106615 (Greate examples of switch usage toward the bottom) Switches and hyphens When a switch is both preceded by and followed by a hyphen, such as with -NTC-, the second hyphen means that the feature is disabled. Such switches are normally not used without the second hyphen. For instance, -NTC- forces Ghost to disable the allocation of NTFS contiguous cluster runs. -NTC is not used because Ghost enables the allocation of NTFS contiguous cluster runs by default.
We would use something like: (xx represents 32 or 64, appropriate for the type of WinPE version you are booting into. 32 will work in the 64bit WinPE, but 64 won't work in the 32bit version).
(These switches are also shown in the images you captured and pasted into this article)
ghostXX.exe -span -auto -CRCIGNORE -FRE -sure
another switch that you might want/need to use is -ntexact - Enable an exact restore of the NTFS source volume layout.
When you "Save" the checked boxes in your method you are bascially creating a file that ghost automatically checks for when it is starting. If you use the command line switch method you don't have to go through that process.