redk9258 wrote:
How did you make your USB flash drive?
redk9258,
When the ISO was burnt to a CD there was no error. When the ISO was on a Grub4DOS USB flash drive there was an error. ISOs on USB flash drives can behave differently. I don't know why.
Maybe because CD-Roms don't need drivers but removable drives do?
Or more specifically cdrom.sys will cover 99% of the CD-Roms out there. When you boot a windows disk I don't even think it needs anything for the CD-Rom and it doesn't even need to load a USB driver.
When your in windows however, you need several drivers for any usb device to work.
So if I had to guess I would say it's something to do with a USB driver.
Something strange about Ghost and USB drivers anyway. In BESR's (the business version) limited sysprep for the "restore anywhere" it stirips all the installed USB drivers to be re-installed in the mini-setup.
Also when people here comment about restoring a ghost image and the system re-installing a device on first boot, isn't it usually something to do with USB?
Since the error is asking for the XP SP3 setup files, I'm assuming the system is SP3 but not an integrated install?
(XP had the service pack 3 installed seperatly, and it's looking for the WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles folder and not just the sp3.cab)
In your sysprep, are you deploying drivers or having it re-enumerate plug and play devices?
Have you tried it and had sucess without running sysprep and by chance would you have any other versions of Ghost?
Dave
redk9258 wrote:When you are going through the restore wizard is Restore Anywhere checked but grayed out?
Like this:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9684/restoreanyware.jpg
I have an image that I can't stop from doing a "restore anyware" and it gets syspreped and runs through a mini-setup when it first boots. You can see that the box to restore anyware is checked but it is "greyed out". I cannot uncheck it.
Pay no attention to where it says "target drive invalid" thats only because I did it in virtual pc so I get get a screen shot.
Sorry, I missed the picture of the error, I had no idea it was restore anyware asking for the missing files.
My post above may not be accurate, restore anyware might have "seen" the system was syspreped and is looking for the files.
When I restore the image from the screenshot above I end up with a folder on the root of my drive called "VProRecovery" containing the sysprep ini and some segments of registry hives. I'm sure that it's looking at the source path or SP location in my registry for the location of the drivers it re-installs.
Dave
Dave,
That is exactly what I am talking about. You have a post from some time ago mentioning that Ghost 15 did this and you don't know how or why (I can't find the post now). What is Ghost seeing that triggers Restore Anywhere?
thethorn,
If you were able to uncheck that option it would probably work. I'm guessing since you are using Ghost it is greyed out like in Dave's linked picture.
I hope Ghost 16 has Restore Anywhere enabled. The competition has this now and Ghost needs to stay competitive.
Brian_K wrote:
redk9258 wrote:
How did you make your USB flash drive?
redk9258,
When the ISO was burnt to a CD there was no error. When the ISO was on a Grub4DOS USB flash drive there was an error. ISOs on USB flash drives can behave differently. I don't know why.
Well I have the ISO I took from my CD. I never burned it to another CD and tried it that way. I only know that the original Ghost 15 CD works fine in an external drive but when the ISO is applied to a USB it has the issue as seen to do with the "Restore Anywhere" Service Pack 3 Files.
redk9258 wrote:Dave,
That is exactly what I am talking about. You have a post from some time ago mentioning that Ghost 15 did this and you don't know how or why (I can't find the post now). What is Ghost seeing that triggers Restore Anywhere?
thethorn,
If you were able to uncheck that option it would probably work. I'm guessing since you are using Ghost it is greyed out like in Dave's linked picture.
I hope Ghost 16 has Restore Anywhere enabled. The competition has this now and Ghost needs to stay competitive.
I just barely ran a test imaging a computer with the external CD that works. While taking the image, I see no mention of "Restore Anywhere" and therefore no option to disable/change it -- not even in the advanced options. This is via cold imaging, of course.
redk9258,
When the ISO was burnt to a CD there was no error. When the ISO was on a Grub4DOS USB flash drive there was an error. ISOs on USB flash drives can behave differently. I don't know why.
Well I have the ISO I took from my CD. I never burned it to another CD and tried it that way. I only know that the original Ghost 15 CD works fine in an external drive but when the ISO is applied to a USB it has the issue as seen to do with the "Restore Anywhere" Service Pack 3 Files.
Scratch that and I apologize for all of the clustered posts. I actually did use the same ISO file I took to make a bootable CD which works fine. I've used that same ISO with the USB.
From this document on BESR 2010 (enterprise version of Ghost 15)...
"Restore Anyware has been updated to be intelligently turned on or off by default when restoring an image of an operating system in the SRD. The Recovery Wizard will compare the hardware in the image to the hardware in the machine and try to determine if Restore Anyware needs to happen."
So even though the ability to check or uncheck the Restore Anywhere is disabled in Ghost 15, the code that decides if the hardware is different must still be active.
I just did an experiment. I booted into the SRD environment. I chose a backup of my wife's laptop that was made from the SRD - that is it was a "cold backup". As you know in the properties of a cold back up made with the Ghost 15 SRD, Restore anywhere says it is permitted. Anyway I set up like I was going to restore this image to my desktop PC. I'll be damned, Restore Anywhere is checked (even though it is greyed out). Both of these computers are running Windows 7 64-bit. One Pro and one Home Premium.
Edit: That image was made before the computer was booted for the first time. I'll have to make another image and try again.
Looks like you can't edit a message after an hour of the original posting.
Edit 2: I tried it the other way. I have a cold image of the desktop on a portable USB HDD. I booted the SRD on the laptop and launched the restore wizard. The partition with Windows has "Restore Anywhere" checked but greyed out.
So that must be it .. The Recovery Wizard will compare the hardware in the image to the hardware in the machine and try to determine if Restore Anyware needs to happen. You just don't get the choice to choose with Ghost 15.
Mine happened on the same system without any hardware changes.
I did however have something wrong with the partition table. I could not run any boot time tools like chkdsk, or perfect disk offline defrag, or pagedefrag by systernals. When I booted to partition magic or partition wizzard, neither could recognize the file system or allow me to make any changes. They both listed the file system as "unknown".
I had XP installed on the D drive and it still booted regardless of these problems, I think the partition got screwed up in a bad shutdown. I had a couple power outages recently.
I did a cold image because I wanted to not only correct these problems but expand the partition and give me a little more space.
Not being able to fix the partition table I ended up deleting the partition and recreating one. The new partition was now recognized by PM and partition wizzard and checked out fine.
When restoring the image into the new partition is when I noticed "restore anyware" checked and greyed out.
I had not even changed the size of the partition, the only difference was that it had a bad or corrupted partition table when I made the image and a "good" one when I restored it.
On first boot it ran through the mini-setup but since none of my hardware changed I didn't need to re-activate windows.
I found a folder on the root of my drive with those files I mentioned earlier and the network settings and workgroup had been changed. I also ended up with that silly MSN butterfly icon back on my desktop.
Dave
Maybe whatever triggers the automatic Restore Anywhere relies on something that was corrupted. I wonder what would have happened on a blank drive.