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BigMan99211 very much appreciated as well for the tip i will try it.

I was looking into the market for a commercial solution and definitely even some may say that their GUI is “easier” i am completely sure that FOG by far is the best solution as far as cost effective. The commercial companies charge per computer which is a ridiculous amount of money. I know this is an open source solution but i would most definitely donate so that the developers can keep the excellent job. If anyone knows a secure way to contact them please share it… I just feel like sharing this !!! have a nice weekend everyone.
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That would be awesome !!! this are my first steps going into syspreing and unattended files. I am following this tutorial [url]http://blog.ibuddy.info/index.php/2011/05/fog-29-my-windows-7-guide-3264-bit-docv1/[/url] which is pretty cool and am going through the xml file modifying what i think i need for my environment.

Thanks Jaymes… i haven’t deploy to users any Win7 am still in the testing face. I will work on a virtual machine better, i have a feeling i will mess up for some tries !!!

Very much appreciated for the information i was under the impression that Fogprep would do the same as sysprep… I really was trying to avoid sysprep since for about two years i had no problem in my domain environment, i just ran NewSid right after cloning a computer. i guess i am going to have to look into sysprep.

Again thanks much

Well i found i work around, but it will work on my favor only i guess, not as a general fix to the issue. Technically i just did the same thing but in a different and older bios ( INTEL board, dual core CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SATA )

My goals :

1 Create a Windows 7 image ( regardless of the hardware)
2 Be able to install this image on different hardware.
3 Different images for different departments within the company.

What i did :

1 Since i was having too many issues with a GIGABYTE board UEFI ready, which i am still not fully familiar with. I decide to get the image from a different board.

2 i installed the image on to a brand new i5 Gigabyte board with 500 GB HD. which it did, only that i found something interesting.

• In windows XP (single disk NTFS only) fog will used the entire disk and just use whatever was used by windows for the installation( EX 10 GB )
• In windows 7 ( Multiple partitions single disk ) i created the image from a 80 GB SATA HD and fog will use the 80 GB out of the 500 GB HD that i deployed to and leave the rest
  unallocated, which for my purpose is really not a bad thing because i can just manually format that partition and use is for local data storage ( not what i wanted but hey )

3 Once i get it working i will create a a different image for our many different departments ( i did this with windows xp and works perfect for me ) this way i am just down to only
some windows updates and join the computer to the domain.

DOMAIN ENVIRONMENT

Now am facing a different issue, i i am just going to mentioned because all of you have been really helpful and i hope my findings help someone else later…

In windows XP i would just deploy the computer and after i was done before joining the computer to the domain i would just run NewSID which will modify any SID entries to avoid any SID
conflicts in my environment. It worked perfect and never had a single issue… Now i ran the NewSID in windows 7 ( as Administrator ) then after the computer restarted windows will not boot again.

I can try to find a work around to this but i don’t want to have to do this all the time. I looked for a NewSid alternative for Win7, but the closes is to run sysprep with the unattended file which i was trying to avoid since i did not have to deal with it in widows xp but i guess i have to.

Again very much appreciated and i will post later my findings !!!

If is run Fogprep, do i still have to run sysprep and create an unattended xml file ?
I want to upload an image with all the software that i need, not to stop in the login screen.

very much appreciated before hand !!!

Just to keep posting, just to test i did the same procedure on a different hardware, an INTEL board and i was able to upload the image to the server. This is definitely something UEFI, MBR, GPT related. I will keep playing with the gigabyte bios, just wanted to provide more inf, hopefully this can save some time for someone else.

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

Thanks Tom, here it is what i have :
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Thanks need2 as well, i will try disabling UEFI as well… trial and error !!!

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Thanks a lot Tom … sorry for the question but am trying to run fdisk and i get this :

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‘fdisk’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

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I don’t think i can use this tool on windows 7 or how can i run it ?

fyi i ran it as an Administrator if that makes any difference.