I used the clonezilla-live-1.2.3-27 (stable) to get an image of a windows xp SP3 desktop (a older dell).
The disk is an 160GB with 2 partitions (windows + dell utilities partition). I used prior getting the image sysprep to reset the SID.
I took the image of the whole disk and stored it succesfuly to a samba share.
I then restored the image on the same machine and everything went as planned!
Then I tried to restore the same image to an IDENTICAL Dell desktop. It finished without any error, but when I tried
rebooting the machine, it comes up with the window splash screen for 3 seconds and then it shows a blue screen
and immediately reboots. I tried getting into safe mode but again it reboots after some seconds. The blue screen
appear and dissapear almost instantly. I think it writes something like that you see this screen because your configuration has
changed or something. I pretty sure that the two machines are identical. Actually I tried the image to a third desktop (identical to the other two) and the result was the same.
I looked into the forum but could not find something similar.
Any idea of this behavior?
Thanks in advance!
I
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Sysprep did not give me any error. It run, shutdown the machine without any error.
When I restored the image on the same machine it came up with the windows configuration
wizard, asking me for the windows key, the settings etc and I assumed that sysprep did it's
job (including resetting the SID).
In the other identical machine it just constantly reboots (no matter if it is normal or safe mode)
Even if it did not work I would expect the machine to at least boot, right?
Thanks again
ps
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No idea… looks like clonezilla has restore the image for you, but what makes the Windows to reboot is unknown…
Or maybe give testing Clonezilla live 1.2.4-28 a try?
Steven.
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Maybe this is a dumb question, but did the target machine work before you put the new image on it? It could have its own hardware problem or have slightly different hardware, this Dell folks are sneaky! :)
Hope this helps!
Alan
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No, I do not think that the target machine has any issue. (I tried it to two different target machines with identical hardware configuration).
I am thinking of trying the image on a different machine on a virtual box to see how it behaves.
I forgot to mention that the machine has 2 partitions. the first one is the "Dell Utilities" partition which is bootable and the other
is the windows.
After restoring the image I can boot at the Dell partition on the target machine fine.
Is there a chance that sysprep screws up? I just run sysprep and without checking any option I "sealed" the computer. I am not missing anything, aren't I?
Thanks again for your help
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Hi,
I used the clonezilla-live-1.2.3-27 (stable) to get an image of a windows xp SP3 desktop (a older dell).
The disk is an 160GB with 2 partitions (windows + dell utilities partition). I used prior getting the image sysprep to reset the SID.
I took the image of the whole disk and stored it succesfuly to a samba share.
I then restored the image on the same machine and everything went as planned!
Then I tried to restore the same image to an IDENTICAL Dell desktop. It finished without any error, but when I tried
rebooting the machine, it comes up with the window splash screen for 3 seconds and then it shows a blue screen
and immediately reboots. I tried getting into safe mode but again it reboots after some seconds. The blue screen
appear and dissapear almost instantly. I think it writes something like that you see this screen because your configuration has
changed or something. I pretty sure that the two machines are identical. Actually I tried the image to a third desktop (identical to the other two) and the result was the same.
I looked into the forum but could not find something similar.
Any idea of this behavior?
Thanks in advance!
I
Looks like the sysprep did not work there?
Steven.
Thanks for your fast reply,
Sysprep did not give me any error. It run, shutdown the machine without any error.
When I restored the image on the same machine it came up with the windows configuration
wizard, asking me for the windows key, the settings etc and I assumed that sysprep did it's
job (including resetting the SID).
In the other identical machine it just constantly reboots (no matter if it is normal or safe mode)
Even if it did not work I would expect the machine to at least boot, right?
Thanks again
ps
No idea… looks like clonezilla has restore the image for you, but what makes the Windows to reboot is unknown…
Or maybe give testing Clonezilla live 1.2.4-28 a try?
Steven.
psebos,
Maybe this is a dumb question, but did the target machine work before you put the new image on it? It could have its own hardware problem or have slightly different hardware, this Dell folks are sneaky! :)
Hope this helps!
Alan
No, I do not think that the target machine has any issue. (I tried it to two different target machines with identical hardware configuration).
I am thinking of trying the image on a different machine on a virtual box to see how it behaves.
I forgot to mention that the machine has 2 partitions. the first one is the "Dell Utilities" partition which is bootable and the other
is the windows.
After restoring the image I can boot at the Dell partition on the target machine fine.
Is there a chance that sysprep screws up? I just run sysprep and without checking any option I "sealed" the computer. I am not missing anything, aren't I?
Thanks again for your help