vista ghost

Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew

Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat :o)
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Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew

Zack, did you even read the issue? He is using Ghost but having problems with it trying to image his Vista drive. <sigh> -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message

Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat :o)
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--- Original message follows --- "Andrew" wrote in message Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew

What's the "issue with the boot record" you're having.
The thing I ran into is that the default BCD entries use "partition"-type device references, and a "partition" reference in BCD appears to include both the drive signature and the partition number in the information stored.
After restoring a Ghost image (made and restored with default settings), if you restored to a different partition this would cause the default BCD entries to break, but even if you restored to the same partition, the default of Ghost is to reset the disk signature, so they still broke.
My batch-file for "preparing" a Vista installation for imaging includes the following:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot bcdedit /set {default} device boot bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot bcdedit /set {memdiag} device boot
This just switches the most common entries from "partition"-type devices references to "boot" device references, which appears to simply mean "yeah, whatever I booted from, use that". As such, no matter which partition you restore to or what the disk signature has become, the entries still work.
That's at least what it took in my case. If you issue seems different, perhaps expand on what you see going wrong.
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Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew

Alan Adams

Sorry Andre, but I do use Symantec Ghost and it's always worked :os
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Zack, did you even read the issue? He is using Ghost but having problems with it trying to image his Vista drive. <sigh -- Andre Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat :o)
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--- Original message follows --- "Andrew" wrote in message Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew

first,you should boot into MS-DOS via 3.5" disk,then you can run Ghost,then make a gho image.this is the only way to solve the problem
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Sorry Andre, but I do use Symantec Ghost and it's always worked :os
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"Zack Whittaker (R2 Mentor)" wrote in message Just use Symantec Ghost - works a treat :o)
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--- Original message follows --- "Andrew" wrote in message Anyone had any experience with Ghosting a Vista image? Or using another imaging tool? We have a dual boot (Win XP/Vista) image that we are trying to Ghost and are having problems with the boot record.
Thanks Andrew