Hi... I am new to Ghost Solution Suite and just trying to learn how to use it.. (By the way, my version of Ghost Console is 11.5.0.2113)... Someone loaned me a Dell D630 laptop with a corrupted install of Windows XP Pro to use as a destination on to which to try to deploy an image... And for a source I have a good, working version of Windows XP Pro on an older D610 laptop.
I used the Ghost Boot Wizard to build a boot disk. For a first go, I used the Windows PE (default option) (WinPE, not WinPE-512) and checked the "Include Deploy Anywhere Driver Database with the image"...
I then booted the source machine (D610) with this CD and used the Local capabilities to deploy an image from the source computer to an external USB harddrive... For grins I also then did a "check" of the image and it said that it verified OK...
Next I booted the destination machine (D630) with this same Ghost Boot CD and, again using the Local capabilities, transferred the image from the external USB harddrive to the D630.
At that point I quit the Ghost GUI but remained in the command line mode. I then followed the Symantec Knowledgebase article, "How to run Deploy Anywhere from the Ghost Boot CD" to perform an evaluation to see if there were missing drivers. (Prior to running the command that follows below, I had also followed instructions in the same Knowledgebase article to set a drive letter for the GHBOOTCD and to be sure to note what that drive letter was, "d" in my case)... Then I ran the following command...
x:\ghost\GhDplyAw32.exe /eval /target=c:\Windows /ddb=d:\windrivers where d: is the drive letter assigned to the GHBOOTCD.
This resulted in one missing driver file found (see the following warning message I got)...
type = Network Device
PCI ID = PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1673&SUBSYS_01F91028&REV_02
Description = @netb57vx.inf,%bcm5755:;Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
This then sent me off in the direction of learning how to add driver files to the default set. I went out to the Broadcom site and got what I believe to be the needed driver (though I'm not 100% sure about whether this is the right one or not??)... The driver consists of three files,
b57win32.inf
b57win32.cat
b57xp32.sys
Inside the b57win32.inf file I find a line with a PCI ID identical to the one above except that the &REV_02 on the end if not present... I've read some other posts that seem to imply an exact match is not required but about that I'm not sure???...
Anyway, I decided to give it a try and to attempt to add this driver to the default set...
I relaunched the Ghost Boot Wizard, selected "Windows PE (default)" and then clicked Edit on that screen...
I then chose "WinPE" (not WinPE-512) and clicked the Edit button on that screen
I then clicked "Add New driver" and pointed to the folder where this "b57xp32" driver lived on my computer after I previously downloaded it...
I pointed to the location, gave it a friendly name (the above mentioned "b57xp32") and noted that "XP" was the pertinet OS..
After that driver got included, I went back and made sure (don't recall if I had to manually check it or not??) that the new "b57xp32" had a checkmark next to it in the driver list...
I then proceeded to build a new Ghost Boot CD...
I then booted the D630 with this new Ghost Boot CD which hopefully now contained the missing driver...
At this point I ran into the "lost smeutil.sys file" that has been discussed elsewhere in this forum... I was able to get around that issue by copying this missing file to the needed location as was discussed elsewhere...
I then proceeded to run again the following command, now with this new Ghost Bood CD...
x:\ghost\GhDplyAw32.exe /eval /target=c:\Windows /ddb=d:\windrivers where d: is the drive letter assigned to the GHBOOTCD.
However, I again got the exact same warning message as before...
type = Network Device
PCI ID = PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_1673&SUBSYS_01F91028&REV_02
Description = @netb57vx.inf,%bcm5755:;Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
So what am I doing wrong??? How do I know if I've discovered the correct driver or not??? Might that be the issue??? Something else???
I could really use some expert help on this as I need to get beyond this point so I can learn how to successfully image a machine from one with dissimilar hardware..
Any help would be much appreciated...
thanks... bob...