dkreifus Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I am attempting to write to the drive after I've loaded the image on it. I need to write to the sysprep file and the registry.I am using WinPE2005 and Ghost 8.2.After creating the image, I use WinPE to deploy it with the following line:ghost32.exe -clone,mode=load,src=S:\CSIimage.gho,dst=1 -sure -quiet -auto -fxThe problem is that DiskPart won't recognize the drive until I reboot. This prevents my VBS script from working, so I can't get HAL recognition.Am I using the wrong Ghost parameters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I don't use ghost, but I can say that it isn't diskpart that isn't letting recognize the partition or data. I use diskpart, and lay down my image with imgdeploy or imagex and I can access the data right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 (edited) Yea, I am guessing it ghost. I just am not sure why.EDIT:I've been doing a Disk to Image and then Image to Disk clone/restore process. Maybe a partition to image and then image to disk? Edited March 7, 2007 by dkreifus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Why use Ghost when ImageX is available with WinPE?I do a PXE boot, partition, format, apply, reboot and minisetup in under 8 minutes with WinPE and ImageX, given that, I would need a lot of very good reasons to use ghost.All you need to do is apply your with ghost, reboot and capture the image with ImageX, then you can loose Ghost for good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 We're using PE2005, and I'm not familiar with imagex. my company is not looking for newer technologies yet on that aspect. Once we got this bridge crossed, we can look at something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 (edited) Another great feature of imagex is single instance storage. As an example, I have 45+ images that have to be maintained, that take up around 90 gigs of space or so. Using Imagex, I have that down under 10 gigs.And if you plan on using Vista or Longhorn when it comes out, your going to be using imagex anyway. Edited March 8, 2007 by Jazkal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mats Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 It's your ghost that's having problems.Im using pqideploy wich is also sectorbased (just like ghost) and it works.I load my image, use sysprep to find the new drive and give it a drive letter. Finally i do modify my sysprep.inf with hal information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted March 8, 2007 Author Share Posted March 8, 2007 When you make your image, do you image the partition or the drive?I believe I have pqideploy as well (made by symantec, right?) What's the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbo101 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 You can mount the drive after you have ghosted to it as thats the way we have beiung doing it for years.We are moving over to imageX but some of the older images are done this way.We started using this scrpt on ghost 8.0 now are using 8.3 but it all works.Our Ghost scriptu:\GHOST32 -CLONE,MODE=LOAD,SRC=q:\image\image\image.GHO,DST=1 -sze2=f -SURE -fx -fdspif not errorlevel 1 goto endy:echo GHOST FAILED TO COPY IMAGE! > SKIPFAIL.TXTexit:endu:call mount.baty:My mount commanddiskpart /s diskpart.txtcopy u:\winbom.ini c:\sysprep\copy u:\copier.bat c:\sysprep\copy u:\wait.bat c:\sysprep\My Diskpart Scriptselect disk 0select partition 1assign letter=c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) @ ubernerd Imagex is fine but when you apply a Vista image to 40 machines, you can wait a long time.Ghost can multicast.Or have i overlook something ?Vista content with software 9 GBDoing it with ghost multicast 9 GBDoing it with imagex 9 GB * 40 = 360 GB To transfer 360 GB over network takes a long time Edited March 20, 2007 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 A few people here use Imagex so i have a question to youDo you get the same error when you deploy XP or Win2003 Images through Imagex ?Does anybody have a trick for that ?Or do all people ignore this message ?please see this link herehttp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=91857Would be very nice if you can give me a short statement Greeting kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadget Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 If you run diskpart just to rescan the hard drive all partitions will show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkreifus Posted April 12, 2007 Author Share Posted April 12, 2007 I'm trying again.I just recreated the entire image. I restructed the OEMpnpdrivers folder and I'm testing it today.Do you guys image the partition, or the whole hard drive...thats still my question about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadget Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 (edited) We always image the whole drive but we deploy images to hundreds of systems each day. If the system has a data partition which requires to be left intact then image just the partition.The only utility I know of that will write to a partition after ghost is pq addendum from powerquest but it's not cheap. Why can't you use diskpart to rescan the drives after ghost has exited? I use it as default. Edited April 12, 2007 by gadget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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