sammycat Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I have managed to get the dual boot of Windows Vista and Windows XP working on my laptop. I used Ghost to create the ghost image successfully. However, when I try to load that image on to the same machine the machine can't boot into either operation system anymore. Has anyone tried this? I am wondering if it is because Vista is not supported under Ghost yet. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Are you putting the installations in the same partitions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycat Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Are you putting the installations in the same partitions?No. They are on separate partitions. I installed Windows XP first and then installed Vista on another partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 When you restore them are you putting them in the same order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycat Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 When you restore them are you putting them in the same order?My ghost image is on the entire disk. I didn't do it on partitions. So when I restored the image I restored to the disk. I even tried to do it partition by partition but it failed. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 odd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycat Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 oddDid you try it in your environment and got it worked?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I use Acronis. It is much better. 100x easier to write to network and USB drives.Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Sammycat, just download the WAIK and create a WIM of the drive, that should work much better for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammycat Posted March 9, 2006 Author Share Posted March 9, 2006 Sammycat, just download the WAIK and create a WIM of the drive, that should work much better for youThat's the next thing I am going to do - Create a WIM image. Have you done it in your test environment yet? We are looking into different deployment method. I don't think WDS can deploy the WIM image through the server.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 (edited) WDS can have 3 stages,legacy - Basically just a RIS server, using RIS setup and RIS prepMixed - RIS and WIM images booNative - WIM images only using WinPE 2.0 to booti have a native WDS server setup, working pretty nicely atm, still a little buggy but i like it, creating a new WIM image for our standard image today and will test to see how it does, was getting errors trying to autocreate computer accounts, but prestaging the accounts works fine. i'll post more as i work on it today Edited March 9, 2006 by fizban2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 can you be a little more specific on neither operaating system will boot. Error? Hangs with flashing cursor?Have you tried any switches like /IB to capture the entire boot record?WIM would probably be the best way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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