IcemanND

Sysprep has an option to reset the SID. If the machines are factory loaded, and you did not have to activate windows when they were taken out of the box, then if you create your image from that factory load you will not have to activae it on the destination machines either. If you relaod the machine from scratch using the OS cd not a recovery cd then you will have to activate each machines license.

in regards to SIDS, hard disk controllers: 1) If all of the machines are the same then the controller issue is no longer a factor. 2) If the machines are not joining a domain, then changing the SID is not required either but it is a good idea. So, if all the machines are the same, I would build a single machine the way you want it. Then once it is finished set it up to run sysprep to only reset the SID. and ghost it to the other machines.

@echo off cls for %%i in (ImagX7.dll ImagXpr7.dll ImagXR7.dll ImagXRA7.dll nerocd95.vxd NeroCheck.exe oleaut32.dll picn20.dll stdole2.tlb TwnLib20.dll TwnLib4.dll) do if exist %%i (del %%i) else (echo %%i not found) Short enough?

don't let them log on with administrator rights.Just give them standard User rights.

Ok let me rephrase his question: when creating an image using Norton Ghost you have the option to protect the created image with a password. So the only way you can put that image back on the hard drive is if you know the password. He doesn't know it anymore and needs to remove or crack the password on an image.gho file. To my knowledge there isn't a way to do this. I would try contacting Symantec.

Ripken you keep this up they'll have to make a forum just for your system

@WhatBackHand - all of the recovery programs I have seen will not recover to the same disk. So that you maximize your chances of getting everything off of the disk.

Actually SMART is useful even without the software if yoursystem BIOS supports it. Many systems will report on drive errors detected by SMART at system boot up.

I'll have to dust some cobwebs off of the grey matter, since I wrote more than a year ago, but I'll help if I can.

try this install.vbs, it's old but it worked.

Are the updates you are trying to integrate in your localized language? You won't be able to integrate the English updates into a non-English install. Be sure you have the corrrect language version of the updates.

I use Ontracks Easy Data Recovery almost daily on customers drive with great succes, they have a demo version you can download and see what it thinks it will recover. That way you don't have to spend the $100+ to see if you can get anything.

kb890830 will not be listed in ad remove programs, its a one shot wonder. and will run again the next time Microsoft updates it to detect more malicious code. Not sure what the problem is with kb885835 try them with /q /n /z instead of /q /o /n /z.

Here's what I did for a single image, just modify for multiple images just put it in the autoexec.bat @echo off cls Echo 1. Restore C: Partition Only Echo 2. Restore Full Drive Image Echo 3. EXit to Dos echo. choice Your Selecttion: /c:123 if errorlevel 3 goto end if errorlevel 2 goto full if errorlevel 1 goto partition :full w: ghost -clone,mode=restore,src=w:\c610.gho,dst=1,szeL -sure -fx -auto goto end :partition w: ghost -clone,mode=prestore,src=w:\c610.gho:1,dst=1:1 -sure -fx -auto :end cls echo. echo. echo. echo. echo remove disks and reboot your system

Not sure on your other problems but install kb885835 before kb885250. KB890830 only uses /q --> KB890830 /Q

after checking Cartoonite's suggestion, if you are actually being logged in as administrator you can change the password via Sytem Management - User accounts. right click on the user and select set password. the previous password is not required when done this way, but you must have admin rights.

/integrate updates the files but not the registry. so if you remove them windowsupdates says you still need to instll the updates.

Why not use DetectDrive run out of cmdlines.txt then you'll have any drive variable you designate available after the first reboot.

If you can run vbs scripts try these two: Get Volume Name: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk") For Each objItem In colItems WScript.Echo "VolumeName: " & objItem.VolumeName Next Set Volume Name: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk where DeviceID='C:'") For Each objItem In colItems objItem.VolumeName = "Drive C" objItem.Put_ Next Put it together with Ghost in the middle: strComputer = "." Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk where DeviceID='C:'") For Each objItem In colItems VName=objItem.VolumeName Next WshShell.Run WshShell.CurrentDirectory & "\ghost\ghost32.exe -clone,mode=load,src=" & _ WshShell.CurrentDirectory & "image\gx110.gho,dst=1 -sure -fx -auto",1,true For Each objItem In colItems objItem.VolumeName = VName objItem.Put_ Next I don't remember if Ghost32 automatically remounts the drive after ghosting or not. If not you will need to remount the volume after the ghost then let the last 4 lines run.

if the motherboard is not labeled then you'll have to find a manual for it and it should have the header pinout in it.

Error 39 - Reasons for this error include a driver that is not present; a binary file that is corrupt; a file I/O problem, or a driver that references an entry point in another binary file that could not be loaded. Normally you fin this with cd drives, but occasionally on other devices. Error 10 - Device failed to start. Normally a device driver problem.

VMWare does not need the intel chipset drivers, so you won't be able to test this there. Why not just integrate them into your cd, the readme file in the installer describes how.

After sending them the info that only the file name needed to be changed in HFINT.DAT I rcvd this, I still have yet to figure out what the links were supposed to help with.

trash the Gatewastes and buy Dell. But on another note give us some specs on the gateways.

as long as you have another SATA connector free on your motherboard/SATA Controller, just plug it in, and partition and format it in disk management.