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sarosh.hussain@gmail.com
This is my first time posting to any community
Here's a situation
Our current laptop models D410 and D620 are reaching end of life and
getting replaced with newer model D630. We have variety of
configurations on these laptops (e.g Laptops with two hard drives,
laptop with external cd writer)
Our normal process to image a machine to into USB DOS bootdisk with
network drivers, pull the image from network and lay it down to
primary hard drive of the machine using the ghost command line DST=2
(Boot disk is DST = 1). Its been working fine for several models with
Dual Hard drive such as D620, P670 and P690
Dell D630 has introduced a new complexity to the process. Bascially,
the second hard drive (Modular Bay attached) takes over the primary so
ghost image gets pulled down to secondary hard drive which inturn
break all our internal imaging script.
Right now, the solution is to disconnected the drive, start imaging
and as soon as ghost starts laying the image down, put the drive back
in for everything to work properly.
This is clugy process and doesn't fly with several supports folks who
frequently image/reimage the machine.
I am basically looking for ideas on how to quickly handle this. I am
in the process of migrating Boot disk to WinPE which will let me
handle this type of stuff using vbscript but I need something in the
interim to handle this issue.
Does anyone know of way to programmaticaly handle this? using some bat
file, internal dos command or some dos utility
Here's a situation
Our current laptop models D410 and D620 are reaching end of life and
getting replaced with newer model D630. We have variety of
configurations on these laptops (e.g Laptops with two hard drives,
laptop with external cd writer)
Our normal process to image a machine to into USB DOS bootdisk with
network drivers, pull the image from network and lay it down to
primary hard drive of the machine using the ghost command line DST=2
(Boot disk is DST = 1). Its been working fine for several models with
Dual Hard drive such as D620, P670 and P690
Dell D630 has introduced a new complexity to the process. Bascially,
the second hard drive (Modular Bay attached) takes over the primary so
ghost image gets pulled down to secondary hard drive which inturn
break all our internal imaging script.
Right now, the solution is to disconnected the drive, start imaging
and as soon as ghost starts laying the image down, put the drive back
in for everything to work properly.
This is clugy process and doesn't fly with several supports folks who
frequently image/reimage the machine.
I am basically looking for ideas on how to quickly handle this. I am
in the process of migrating Boot disk to WinPE which will let me
handle this type of stuff using vbscript but I need something in the
interim to handle this issue.
Does anyone know of way to programmaticaly handle this? using some bat
file, internal dos command or some dos utility
