I'm trying to image a 20G drive containing XP Pro (NTFS) to a single file on a Linux receiver and then transimt this image back to the same XP box to test things are working ok. I can create the image with no problems (no compression used) and then udpcast the image back to the same machine it was taken from. When I reboot this machine I get "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl+Al+Del to restart" I've tried several times with no success - anyone got any ideas or managed to get this to work? Even the XP disk will not boot to allow repair - PC just hangs after it has started inspecting setup.
Thanks
Lee Baker
On Monday 24 May 2004 14:44, Lee Baker wrote:
I'm trying to image a 20G drive containing XP Pro (NTFS) to a single file on a Linux receiver and then transimt this image back to the same XP box to test things are working ok. I can create the image with no problems (no compression used) and then udpcast the image back to the same machine it was taken from. When I reboot this machine I get "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl+Al+Del to restart" I've tried several times with no success - anyone got any ideas or managed to get this to work? Even the XP disk will not boot to allow repair - PC just hangs after it has started inspecting setup.
Thanks
Lee Baker
Weird. Do you image the whole disk (all partitions, /dev/hda), or just the partition containing XP (such as, for example /dev/hda1)?
Are you sure you use the same compression settings for taking the image, and restoring it?
Are you still able to do a complete install of XP (rather than repair...), or is that also not working?
Could you also send me the first couple of sectors from that image (may be obtained with "dd if=image bs=512 count=50 of=first_sectors", and then mail me first_sectors)
Thanks,
Alain
we here at alamance burlington scool system have been able to save and deploy windows xp using udp cast but it had to be the new version and we had to run sysprep on the image before we could send it out because we keep getting the same error any questions email me back.
Alain Knaff alain@knaff.lu writes:
On Monday 24 May 2004 14:44, Lee Baker wrote:
I'm trying to image a 20G drive containing XP Pro (NTFS) to a single file on a Linux receiver and then transimt this image back to the same XP box to test things are working ok. I can create the image with no problems (no compression used) and then udpcast the image back to the same machine it was taken from. When I reboot this machine I get "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl+Al+Del to restart" I've tried several times with no success - anyone got any ideas or managed to get this to work? Even the XP disk will not boot to allow repair - PC just hangs after it has started inspecting setup.
Thanks
Lee Baker
Weird. Do you image the whole disk (all partitions, /dev/hda), or just the partition containing XP (such as, for example /dev/hda1)?
Are you sure you use the same compression settings for taking the image, and restoring it?
Are you still able to do a complete install of XP (rather than repair...), or is that also not working?
Could you also send me the first couple of sectors from that image (may be obtained with "dd if=image bs=512 count=50 of=first_sectors", and then mail me first_sectors)
Thanks,
Alain
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John Cook Computer Technician Alamance-Burlington School System 1712 Vaughn Rd. Burlington, NC 27217 336-570-6090 x113
I've not tried sysprep yet - that's my next step. Just to confirm that I'm imaging the entire drive /dev/hda with no compression. The xp install cd will do nothing until I delete the partition that has been created. It's a basic xp install: single NTFS partition no special bootloader or anything.
Lee Baker
-----Original Message----- From: udpcast-bounces@udpcast.linux.lu [mailto:udpcast-bounces@udpcast.linux.lu] On Behalf Of John Cook Sent: 24 May 2004 15:02 To: Alain Knaff Cc: udpcast@udpcast.linux.lu Subject: Re: [Udpcast] No success with imaging XP
we here at alamance burlington scool system have been able to save and deploy windows xp using udp cast but it had to be the new version and we had to run sysprep on the image before we could send it out because we keep getting the same error any questions email me back.
Alain Knaff alain@knaff.lu writes:
On Monday 24 May 2004 14:44, Lee Baker wrote:
I'm trying to image a 20G drive containing XP Pro (NTFS) to a single file on a Linux receiver and then transimt this image back to the
same
XP box to test things are working ok. I can create the image with no problems (no compression used) and
then
udpcast the image back to the same machine it was taken from. When I reboot this machine I get "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl+Al+Del to restart" I've tried several times with no success - anyone got any ideas or managed to get this to work? Even the XP disk will not boot to allow repair - PC just hangs after
it
has started inspecting setup.
Thanks
Lee Baker
Weird. Do you image the whole disk (all partitions, /dev/hda), or just the partition containing XP (such as, for example /dev/hda1)?
Are you sure you use the same compression settings for taking the image, and restoring it?
Are you still able to do a complete install of XP (rather than repair...), or is that also not working?
Could you also send me the first couple of sectors from that image (may be obtained with "dd if=image bs=512 count=50 of=first_sectors", and then mail me first_sectors)
Thanks,
Alain
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John Cook Computer Technician Alamance-Burlington School System 1712 Vaughn Rd. Burlington, NC 27217 336-570-6090 x113
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