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Drivers for Ghost Boot USB to Target Dell e5420 NIC

March 5, 2015, 2:08 pm
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Hello!

I work for a school district in Colorado and we use Ghost Boot Manager 11.5.1.2266 to make our bootable USB fobs for imaging around the district. We have a mix of desktops and laptops, as well as an assortment of Dell models. Right now our primary desktop model is the Optiplex 3020 and our primary laptop model is the Latitude e5420. When I make these fobs for the desktops, all works quite well. However, when I make them for the laptops, not so much.

I can't pull an IP from the Ghost USB, so I have no choice but to image locally using my WD external. This works fine, but it's not at all efficient when I have more than one machine to image. I know that this comes down to a driver issue, and that I'm not including the right drivers to use the NIC in our e5420s. But I've tried including the driver CAB from dell (http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/2174.latitude-e5420-windows-7-driver-cab), as well as individually downloading every single e5420 driver from Dell's "Drivers and Downloads" page (http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/latitude-e5420/drivers), and so on. I still cannot find the right driver(s) to include on my fob so that I can pull an IP and multicast from my Ghost Boot USB.

I've tried both the PCDOS and WINPE options, and have no luck with either. Even the more seasoned techs in my shop seem less than certain about which drivers I should include, and I hate to continue probing them wiht my annoying questions (I'm the new guy here). Can anyone point me in the right direction? Please keep in mind that I'm still a bit green, so go easy on the jargon please. =-)

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Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 - "How-to" Videos

March 6, 2015, 9:04 am
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To help you get up to speed as quickly as possible, we are creating several "How-to" videos and will be posting links to each of them on this page and adding them over time.

You'll find a complete list with updates as new videos become available on this blog page:

Ghost Solution Suite 3.0 - "How-to" Videos

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Ghost; get image file source?

March 8, 2015, 11:54 am
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Hello,

I have created a custom recovery solution using BartPE and an older version of Ghost (8.3.0.1331). The solution will boot into the Ghost GUI and the user will select what disk or partition to clone. Somehow I need to find out what source the user selected for cloning. Is there any kind of debug logging that will let me know this or is it possible to find out later by examining the resulting image file?

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update patch 2298 for GSS 2.5.1

March 9, 2015, 10:10 am
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Could you please send me the latest update /2298/ for GSS 2.5.1 since I could not create a proper image for my Windows 7 workstations.

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Are the GSS3 beta signups closed?

March 12, 2015, 12:22 pm
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I've been dying to try out the new version of Ghost but my application was rejected because I used my gmail address for my Symbeta account instead of my work address. I've corrected this but now the link to apply for the GSS3 beta appears to be dead. Are signups closed?

Thanks, 

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Server 2012 R2 compatibility

March 12, 2015, 3:15 pm
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I have been trying to find information about the compatibility of Ghost 11.5 with server 2012 R2 but i have yet to have any luck.  Has anyone tried upgrading to 2012 R2 and had success?

Thanks

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Symantec Ghost 11.5.1 with FreeBSD 10

March 12, 2015, 3:59 pm
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I'm trying to clone a FreeBSD 10 drive with a GPT partition and the FS is UFS.  I'm doing this on a Dell PowerEdge server with a H730 PERC.

The problem is when I try to restore the image.  I've been able to verify all the files and partitions are written to the drive and there is no FS corruption but the drive isn't bootable.

To capture the image I'm doing a sector by sector copy.  This is my command:

ghost64.exe -fx -ir  -clone,mode=create,src=1,dst=%GI% -z3

To restore the image this is my command:

ghost64.exe -clone,mode=restore,src=i:\%filename%,dst=1 -IR -OR -FFS -FNI -FIS -VDW

All of this worked on my previous servers with a PERC H710 but for some reason it doesn't work with the PERC H730.

Any help would be appriciated.

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Symantec Ghost Console - "Error reading machine info" when opening Machine in Machine Groups

March 16, 2015, 1:19 am
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Hi all,

We first saw the issue when we deployed the agent. The PC was added using the MAC address of the PC rather than the PC name, I have had 1 PC out of 20 that has added correctly with the PC name and not the MAC. I cannot figure out why this one PC is any different from the others.

Then when we run an inventory on said PC's and try and open the PC in Machine Groups we get the following,

Error reading machine info.

Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry keys for Network Component Root\NET\0000 at SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\NET\0000
Error loading registry ke?

So I am assuming this is some weird registry permission?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Editing Start.bat in Symantec Ghost WINPE boot Disk

March 17, 2015, 6:57 am
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Hello All,

Happy Tuesday!

I'm wondering if any Symantec Ghost experts can help me out. 

I've created several WINPE USB boot disks using Symantec's Boot disk wizard. They all have the default settings in the start.bat file as well as a copy of a few images on them. 

Since creating these disks, i'm trying to loop back around and make them automagically lay down a particular image without any user input. I've got the code working without any problem and have proven that it works.

My problem is this. 

Whenever I make changes to the start.bat file that is located in USBDRIVE:\ghost\start.bat, the changes do not show up in the start.bat which is loaded into memory when win PE starts up. (x:\ghost\start.bat) I'm clueless. I mounted the WINPE image and don't see a start.bat within the boot.wim file and all documentation on Symantec's site tells me that the start.bat folder is where you wan't to make these changes. What's even stranger is that when I look within the boot.wim at startnet.cmd I expected to see something that is calling start.bat but it's empty with the default command of winpeit....

If I start over and make a new boot disk and place the changes necessary in the final window of the wizard, then the changes do work. Both start.bat files (x:\ghost\start.bat and USBDRIVE:\ghost\start.bat) show the proper config. 

Can any GHOST experts help me unwind this so I know where to place these changes, I'm thinking that the file at USBDRIVE\ghost\start.bat is not the same file that gets copied into memory to create x:\ghost\start.bat. If that was the case, then any change I made offline would then copy in upon startup of the winpe image. If that is not the case, then were is the start.bat that gets copied into memory upon boot up?

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Image Create - Drivers could not be found .... Manufacturer: "@oem10.inf",...

March 18, 2015, 5:38 am
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Hi,

I have install Symantec Ghost Console 11.5.1.2266 on Win2003srv (in WMww), I install client on physic NTB with Windows 7 x64 without any problem. I configured image create path, and sysprep preference and other.

I run "New image create task", the client accepts it and starts the countdown, after a few seconds, image finished with failed status. Look at the picture.

1.jpg

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NTB is Lenovo L540.

Thx all

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How to run Run Ghost Suite on XPS13

March 18, 2015, 7:57 am
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Hey guys,

I'm trying to create an image of a Dell XPS 13 which has no CD/DVD Drive and the network is on a USB device and I have run into this problem:

I created my own Ghost Boot Disk with the USB 3 Driver for this model to see if it gets an external hard drive to copy the image to, but it doesn't recognize any hard drive I plug into it (USB2 or USB3), as per the network device it doesn't see it either, so I get no IP to do a network connection to the Ghostcast server, the ONLY network driver for this laptop is wireless, and I don't know of a way to create an image wirelessly.

Does anybody have any suggestion?

Thanks.

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Boot/BCD Error When Creating/Restoring Windows 7 (32b) Image

March 30, 2015, 6:34 am
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Hello,

I am trying to use the Ghost Solution Suite (2.5.1) to create an image backup image of a 32-bit Windows 7 installation, and then restore it.  I have the suite installed on a Windows 2008 server domain controller, and remotely installed the client on the Windows 7 machine.  I created an image of the Windows 7 machine using WinPE-512, and the creation of the image seemed to go fine.  I can use the Ghost Explorer to view the contents of the image, and it looks like all the partitions were created.  When I restore the image, ghost runs on the client, the restore happens, but when the computer reboots to try to boot into the new image, I get a Boot Manager error ("an error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data" 0xc0000001).  I googled around and tried various commands from the restore disk to try to get it to boot, but I was unable, and even if I were able to get it to boot, I still have a problem with the clone/restore process.  Anything I can look at to try to figure out why this is happening? When I use the restore disk, I can use diskpart to see that I have the 100MB system reserved partition, as well as the WIndows installation partition (my old C: drive, now assigned as D:).

Any help would be appreciated.

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Ghost cannot see SAN LUNs...

March 30, 2015, 7:18 am
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Hi all,

On my ProLiant DL360 G5 lab server I used a Ghost .ISO on a USB stick to clone a C:\ & D:\ drive from the same HDD to a seperate LUN for each.  This server now boots from SAN with no problems whatsoever.

I tried to do the same on two ProLiant DL380 G7's but once booted into Ghost I cannot see the LUNs to choose them as a destination device.  This is very odd considering that I'm able to see the LUNs when I'm in Windows before I try the clone, ruling out zoning as the issue.  Initially I tried with the LUNs formatted as RAW, then NTFS, then NTFS with a drive letter assign, but no luck...

Any help will be much appreciated.

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Ghost 3.0 Initial Deployment

April 1, 2015, 10:45 am
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I am really happy that Symantec decided to keep DS 6.9 alive (with new Name). I have been sucessfully using DS 6.9 for last 7 years in 15,000 multi-site enviornment. I am hoping that GS 3.0 can resolve some minor issues.

Issue : I have 35 deployment servers offering four flvaors of images (laptop, desktop, developer and clinic image). Each master imaging folder contains individual imaging tasks (Windows 7, Office 2010... etc....). I have seen technicians move or delete imaging tasks by mistake when they drag and drop using DS console and there is no alerting mechanism. I wish I can use "Initial Deployment" feature and offer master imaging folder so that there is no need for technecians to use DS console. My understaing is that you can only add indivual imaging tasks not folders to "Initial Deployment". I have GSS 3.0 running in my lab but I do not see any changes made in initial deployment or DS console security. 

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Hi, I read an article, tell

April 1, 2015, 1:10 pm
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Hi, I read an article, tell me. It is possible create or public image over network, only using Ghost console + client? Or will always need to boot from USB or CD? thank you

Thx

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Ghost Error for 11.5.1

April 7, 2015, 10:59 am
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Ghost Imaging software version 11.5.1.

When attempting to do a clone of a machine. I've noticed that it seems that it can't find my external hard drive to begin the imaging process. It starts off with a error mounting the external hard drive. I then choose to mount the drive. Then When I select my image it asks me if I want to preserve the image. After this step it ends with a 1958 error message. I've done this many times, so I'm not new to Ghost. But these errors are alarming to me because I've never encountered any type of errors before when doing a clone of a machine using Ghost. Could some one please point me in the righ direction

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Cancel auto-restart GSS

April 9, 2015, 10:04 am
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Hello everyone,

I'm using WinPE 3 to create and restore images remotely. 

I would like to know how it could be possible to cancel the auto reboot that Ghost does once the image is complete, because I would like to run a command ONCE ghost is done. I could obviously run it at the beginning, but It's not what I want.
I want it ran once ghost is done, but he reboots automatically.

Thanks,

Raphaël

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Building a Windows 7 image

April 10, 2015, 8:45 am
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I am trying to build a new Windows 7 image to be deployed across multiple platforms using Ghost. Right now I have a great image that will run on all systems we have but the problem is device drivers. The image will load, go through sysprep and boot to the desktop but there are several missing drivers like USB 3.0, video, and some chip set drivers. I could add the drivers to the image and make a change to the devicepath entry in the registry or I can use PNPutil to add the drivers to the driver store but doing this will almost double the size of the image (we have many different models we support). Is there any method we can use to add the drivers dynamically? We tried to run a script that made a wmi call to get the model name from the BIOS and run a pnputil script based on the result but we are getting BSOD on some of the systems. Any help would be great!!

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Directed Broadcast Issues - GhostCast

April 13, 2015, 9:22 am
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Hi there,

We are running GhostCast 11.5 on a Windows Server 2012 box.  I am using a hybrid of WDS and GhostCast for my environment.  The clients PXE boot, to a WIM that then loads Ghost 11.5

At that point, I choose to do Unicast (works fine) or Directed Broadcast (the issue).  We do not use MultiCast as the switches at this site (Brocade) were not purchased with the necessary licensing to utilize PIM or Multicast.  So, Directed Broadcast is what I am trying to use.  We have several VLANs, the Ghost Server lives in VLAN 10, and the majority of the workstations are in VLAN 16.

Anyways, when I use Directed Broadcast with 1 Client, speeds are 1600-2000 Mbps as expected.  However, as soon as I add in another client, so if I try to Direct Broadcast to 2 clients, the speed drops to 40 Mbps.  That 40 Mbps speed sticks no matter if I have 2 or 72 (actually tried) clients.  So, I am looking for suggestions on where to go with this.

I have reached out to Brocade, and their support has to be some of the worst I have ever received.  Now with that said, has anyone seen this issue at any other point?  Do I need to enable IGMP even if I am NOT using Multicast?  The Ghostcast Server has its' firewall turned off at this point, and everything works fine until I start the Directed Broadcast session with 2 or more clients, then the speeds just dive.  The image will finish but it takes approximately 18-24 hours to push out a 40-55 GB image.  I have never seen this with any other switches.  

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and let me know if you have any suggestions or need additional information.

Dave

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Ghost Cast 11/Windows 8 - Partition Error

April 23, 2015, 7:37 am
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Hello,

I am currently an Intern and have been tasked with creating a Windows 8 image using Ghost Cast 11.  I have created the image but when I try to apply it to a computer, I end up stuck in a start up loop that tells me that I have partition error.  I have looked through the forum but am not able to find anything that has helped me.  I apologize in advance if I did not provide enough technical information but I personally do not have the most technical knowledge.  Please let me know what information I would need to provide for better assistance.

I would appreciate any help or direction.

Thank you,

Daniel Antolini

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