When I was reading through some of the documentation they referred to that as a ‘golden image’ or ‘hardware independent image’ - here is an excerpt:

[INDENT=1][I][B] Example: [/B] Your environment has 20 Dell Optiplex 760 Machines. Your environment also has 20 Lenovo ThinkCentre M91p Machines. [/I][/INDENT]
[INDENT=1][I]Since FOG allows you to group your host and apply the same image to all host in that group, it might be better for you to create a standard Dell Image and a seperate Lenovo Image. However if you have 5+ machines with different models, it might be time to create a Master Image that covers the hardware for ALL your machines. These are known as Hardware Independant Images or Master Images. They are also known as Golden Images. Regardless of the name used, they all mean the same thing. An image that works on any machine/hardware. [/I][/INDENT]
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That was taken from here: [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Client_Setup[/url]
Hopefully that gives you a good starting point to jump in from.[I][/I]

Fixed it - I had to run the install disk and head to the recovery console. It immediately found the issue and fixed it. Was able to boot into the image fine after that.

Now I can fogprep and reupload the image the right way

I had stumbled across that. My issue is that I already uploaded the image and deployed it to 1 PC (the same one from which the image was uploaded).

I went into the PC with Hirens Boot CD and deleted those registry keys and tried to reboot but got the same issue. I can’t get into the system in order to run those commands.

Just curious if there is a fix for this without reinstalling windows; or if I am hosed to the point I need to reinstall everything manually.

Hey guys/gals,

I used FOG years ago (probably around 4 years ago or so) - and I loved it. I had it working pretty well within a small environment where I was employed.

Long story short - new place, new tasks. Setup a FOG server once again! Using .32 ; In my excitement to have gotten it setup and working I created an image of a spare Windows 7 machine we had here at the office just to get back and familiarizing myself with the process.

I did NOT sysprep or run FOGprep before creating the image. It’s a single partition resizable ntfs image.

I pushed it back out to the same machine - (again, to test); I got the Windows Boot Manager error:
Windows failed to start, etc etc.
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.

My question is this: Is there a way to make this machine bootable from this image WITHOUT having to reinstall Windows 7, sysprep and take a new/different image? I’ve searched and have come up relatively empty handed - but if there is a way to do this, I’d like to know just in case we ever get in a situation like this with a PC that isn’t a test.