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  1. Some of thier systems are up to 5 years old. They are trying to standardize on one type of media as some of the techs in the field are not exactly the brightest bulbs. The funny thing is I usually get up to 300M if I don't use the Ramdrive and have the image local on the DVD that it booted PE from. When imaging across the wire (computer to computer) I get full wire speed. Only when using the Ramdrive does this happen. Thanks for the info Mats. Today if I have enough time I will try PQDI and see what's up. Thanks again for all the help y'all. Shawn
  2. Are you deploying one huge file or do you have it split into smaller segments? Thanks, Shawn
  3. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that on hand. Also getting USB to work properly on some of the newer portable systems that have external only USB drives has been problematic. They aren't really open to purchasing new deployment software yet. Thanks for the advice! Shawn
  4. Yes it Ghost 8 Corp Edition (ghost32.exe). Unfortunately, the target systems won't have the 2nd HD (USB or otherwise) as an option and the techs that will actually be doing the work aren't always the brightest and it is going to be a challenge to get them to swap the CD/DVD when the time comes. I plan on trying some more tests this morning when I get in but even if the USB HD or even a network pull is faster it won't help me much since those options aren't available for the forseeable future in my customer's enterprise. The only thing I could think of is that on the DVD version, the image is several 2G files and it is having issues with reading that large of a file or something. Today I will try and re-create the image in smaller 650-700M chunks to see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestions! Shawn
  5. All of the systems we are working on have at least 512M of mem. When I ran task manager (inside a VM) memory and page file usage never spiked or steadily rose. I will have to ping the Symantec Rep about the source of Ghost 8 Corp edition but I am pretty sure that it's not the PQDI based version. My initial RAMdisk ISO is about 150M for non PNP and 170M for the PNP version with the added drivers. Tomorrow I am going to go through the .txt files that tell me what the safe files to remove are (using a script tha was on this forum) and try again. One thing I did try (although not an exact repro of the issue) is in the VM (using VMWare 5.0) it was averaging about 400M, but the GHO file was from a mounted DVD ISO on my HD. I will have more info tomorrow. Thanks for the info... Shawn
  6. What version of the driver package are you using from Dell? One thing you might want to try as well is the latest driver from Intel (make sure it is WHQLed). Thanks, Shawn
  7. I am working with a customer that uses CD/DVDs only for deployment of images. I have successfuly created a PE CD that will load into a ramdisk and allow me to change the CD and insert the CD/DVD with thier image and then proceed to lay the image onto the HD. They are using Ghost 8, the image is 6G in size and it is taking about an hour to complete. This is on a portable with an internal drive, and a desktop machine. I have tried making the WinPE with the /PNP switch and all the latest drivers (using Drvinst) and without PNP. It starts off really fast (about 700M or so) and then tapers off to about 110M on the portable and around 240M on the desktop. It doesn't do this if we don't use the Ramdisk. I haven't been able to find out how much memory the Ramdisk takes (I assume that it only takes what it needs to load the iso). I haven't tried a dir on the ramdisk but assume (I know. I know. Assumption is the mother of all mess ups) that it will report only the size of the ISO. Can someone point me in the right direction (besides network based imaging)? Has anyone ran into this issue? Thanks, Shawn
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