Posts made by Robin Commander

Yep, it makes perfect sense with hindsight. I was looking for a quick win timewise and thought that I could use the MS dummy keys then once generalised I could enter the oem key from the bottom of each of the laptops. Hey Ho… Never stop learning

I’ve had exactly the same experience as described here when imaging with Windows 7, and solved it in exactly the same way (after much wailing and gnashing of teeth !)

I used the Sysprep from the WAIK kit on the Microsoft site, left the 100Mb partition in place and used Single disk, single partition function within FOG.

One thing that I did discover was that if I used an OEM (Panasonic) restore DVD to get the base build to CF-19 Toughbooks, whatever I did I couldn’t get the resulting image to work correctly when used as a basis for imaging to further computers. Still don’t know why, but I did find something on the web to the effect that Microsoft frown on this anyway. Once I swapped to using a volume license key version everything was sweet as a nut.

FOG sure is a godsend and is well worth the effort to keep persevering on with. Great job guys

Cheers
Robin