I six computers at work, all identical industrial rack mount chassis with P4@3.0GHz 2GB RAM single board computers and 14 PCI cards installed in each.
IT made a Ghost (2003) image after I built the first one and we have been using that image to build the rest after all PCI cards are installed. The image uses Sysprep so we have to enter the Corprate XP key and give the computer a name on the domain.
On the fifth computer, we tried to restore the image by doing a network boot from CD. The restore went ok until about 2GB of 7GB was copied and got an error saying Norton Ghost 2003 reached the end of file early (can't remember the exact error). We attributed it to a network error since we were having network problems yesterday.
We tried to restore the image again which was partially successful, but upon starting Windows XP Pro SP1a... we get to the screen where we are asked to enter the product key (works OK) and then assign a name for the computer. After giving the computer a name and clicking "Next" it hangs after about five seconds (permanent hourglass cursor) and no way out except the power button. CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work.
We have tried restoring the image four times with the same result every time... it hangs at exactly the same place.
I can think of no hardware reason for this behavior except maybe bad RAM or that the first failed restore left some crap on the hard drive that isn't being erased when re-attempting the image restore. This same image was used to build computers #2 through #4 so I doubt it is bad.
Ideas?
IT made a Ghost (2003) image after I built the first one and we have been using that image to build the rest after all PCI cards are installed. The image uses Sysprep so we have to enter the Corprate XP key and give the computer a name on the domain.
On the fifth computer, we tried to restore the image by doing a network boot from CD. The restore went ok until about 2GB of 7GB was copied and got an error saying Norton Ghost 2003 reached the end of file early (can't remember the exact error). We attributed it to a network error since we were having network problems yesterday.
We tried to restore the image again which was partially successful, but upon starting Windows XP Pro SP1a... we get to the screen where we are asked to enter the product key (works OK) and then assign a name for the computer. After giving the computer a name and clicking "Next" it hangs after about five seconds (permanent hourglass cursor) and no way out except the power button. CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work.
We have tried restoring the image four times with the same result every time... it hangs at exactly the same place.
I can think of no hardware reason for this behavior except maybe bad RAM or that the first failed restore left some crap on the hard drive that isn't being erased when re-attempting the image restore. This same image was used to build computers #2 through #4 so I doubt it is bad.
Ideas?