Vista - Ghosting Vista disk not perfect....

Hi there,

I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
ghosting process.

But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair disk....."

Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?

Gordon

Hi,

Only Symantec's newest version (Solution Suite 2.0) will be compatible with
Vista:
http://www.symantec.com/vista/index.jsp

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
> ghosting process.
>
> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
> disk....."
>
> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
> Gordon

Get True Image 10. It works.

"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
> ghosting process.
>
> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
> disk....."
>
> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
> Gordon

True Image actually works properly. I note here that I am a very annoyed ex
Symantec customer.

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ObnM7x%23RHHA.1200@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Only Symantec's newest version (Solution Suite 2.0) will be compatible
> with Vista:
> http://www.symantec.com/vista/index.jsp
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
>> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
>> ghosting process.
>>
>> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it
>> comes up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
>> disk....."
>>
>> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>>
>> Gordon
>

I have used Ghost every day for 5 years and using Ghost 8, I found the same
thing that you did unless I restored a Vista image back to the same exact
hard drive / partition. This is a new twist with Vista that was not true
with XP. Event restoring to an identical partition size on a differnent
disk requires the repair procedure

Putting in the CD like it tells you fixes the start routine without changing
anything else. It only takes about a minute for it to do the repair.

XP had tools for deploying workstations with Ghost - Sysprep and RIS etc.
They must have a new trick for Vista, because the repair process on each
target pc would hardly be considered a production procedure.

XP was more sensitive to imaging than 2000. Now Vista is more sensitive
than XP.


"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
> ghosting process.
>
> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
> disk....."
>
> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
> Gordon

I used Ghost 8 - I has the same problem that you did, but the repair takes
about 2 minutes and all is well.



"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
>
> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
> ghosting process.
>
> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
> disk....."
>
> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
> Gordon

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 06:18:56 -0600, "steveb" <swb_mct@msn.com> wrote:

>"Gordon J. Rattray" <gords@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>news:eHKr7o%23RHHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've got Vista Ultimate on a 40 Gb hard drive which turns out to be too
>> small. So, I am trying to Ghost it to an 80 Gb HDD and it goes thru the
>> ghosting process.
>>
>> But, when I put it in to boot up off the newly Ghosted 80 Gb HDD, it comes
>> up with an error "winloader.exe not found....please insert repair
>> disk....."
>>
>> Is this an incompatible Ghost version... Ghost 2003....?
>
>I used Ghost 8 - I has the same problem that you did, but the repair takes
>about 2 minutes and all is well.

I believe you need to use the "preserve disk signature" switch.

ghost32.exe -FDSP
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