Cloning Toshiba Laptops with sysprep
Hi,
We have many different makes and models of laptops and have a sysprep image which we use for all of them and up till now have had no issues other that having to put drivers in after the laptop has been imaged.
That is until we started purchasing Toshiba laptops!!
After we have imaged the laptop it blue screens with either
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Stop: 0x00000050 (0xF0000223, 0x00000000, 0x806BAF76, 0x00000002)
or a
Stop 0x0000007B
Even after repairing the image it blue screens.
Thus far we have had to build a new image for every model of Toshiba laptop and then image.
Any ideas on how I can get my sysprep image to work?
@crystalreef
What do you wrap the sysprep image in? wim file? ghost file? clonezilla image?
I have had 100% success with sysprep by using wim file method. First I prepare the image with newprep method and capture the image with imagex. When we deploy the image we use either bartPE or winPE 3.1 image from PE boot which uses imagex to install wim file from samba share. In the same PE session it then injects the hdc drivers using fix_hdc.cmd script from that samba share. This is responsible for fixing the 7B errors. Additionally there is a program which I wrote in autoit which detects the model of the machine and pulls the appropriate drivers off the network and puts them in c:\drivers. There is then another routine in mini setup to inject lan drivers and on intial boot another script which goes and installs the drivers from the c:\drivers etc..
Anyway what sysprep method do you use? If you can I recommend to use the newprep method as it does not involve adding any mass storage driver entries to sysprep.inf and is very clean sysprep method. From then I am sure you will never have problems syspreping Toshiba laptops.
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