Thursday, February 14, 2008

Imaging Windows Vista with Ghost Cast Server 11.0

Hey guys..I was trying to image a windows vista business machine with Ghost Cast Server 11.0 and found a problem that every time I finished the cloning session and boot the client there's an error message called "winload.exe is missing or corrupt".
After a bit research in this problem I found that its a compatibility problem between Ghost Server and Windows Vista due to the new way of booting windows vista (presence of boot database rather then boot.ini file). I am still working on this problem and trying to fix it fully. I tried this and it worked...hope it works with you guys also...
How To??
Before pulling off the image from the client machine...
--> Open a command prompt window in the client
--> Enter these commands sequentially
1) bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
2) bcdedit /set {default} device boot
3) bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot

NOTE: These commands should be entered in a command window with administrator priviliges. For this --Go to Accessories, Go to command prompt, Right click on command prompt and click on Run as administrator.
-->Connect this client to the Ghost Cast Server
-->Now pull the image off this machine (Guess you know this...)
Now clone your clients with this new image. Hope everything should go well and you don't see the error you saw before.
All the credit for this solution goes to : http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2006/11/21/Deploying-Windows-Vista-centrally.aspx

If any question, leave comments. I will reply as soon as possible.
Thanks

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

am trying to image windows 2008 server and getting the same error..
will the specified steps clear the problem.....

Dilip said...

It might fix the problem. Go ahead and let me know what happens.