Warning...this is a l o n g one; and I'm not sure where and how I got off track (that's why I'm here)...but I've made a complete mess of things.
OK...I have a client, who has an HP RP5700, dual-core 1.8, 4G, running Win7 Pro. I bought a refurbed RP5700, dual-core 1.8, 4G, loaded with Win7 Pro 64-bit...though the machines, were not identical model numbers.
I've Ghosted and re-imaged machines, hundreds of times; but with my company, everything was "standardized". Same boxes, same images, etc.
So I wanted to run a simple test, just to get back in the swing of things. I made an image of the refurbed box, made some minor changes...and then tried to restore.
I keep getting error 25058 "unable to locate enough contiguous space to load run. Increase the destination partitiion size or run Ghost with -NTEXACT switch"
So then...I made a Ghost of my client's machine, to see if I could restore that (since that was the ultimate goal anyway); and that actually appeared to run. But on re-boot, I got a \Boot\BCD error.
Made a System Repair Disk, and couldn't get the machine back up and running.
Ugh...help?