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Originally Posted by dinowuff
LOL!!! No, this is an HP 2540p laptop and I am using HPs restore CD for this model.
Not sure what you mean about using the restore CD and getting more info. I used the restore CD originally and didn't get any errors or anything.
I'm just thinking:
We know: Three laptops, same model and specs. Image doesn't work.
If the manual restore does... Has to be the image. Either a chipset or something is different between machines.
Another idea is to DL CloneZilla and create a image of the "master" and see if you can apply it to one of the target laptops. If that image fails, there is certianly a hardware difference somewhere. (or a BIOS license thing)
I'm just shooting from the hip here
I thank you for the hip check. Let me clear a couple things...
2 identical brand new HP 2540p laptop machines
1 restored with CDs and imaged pre-sysprep
original machine sys-prepped and imaged again post sysprep
2nd machine received image fine but when booted failed miserably as stated previously
I then booted the original machine and ditto!!
Reimaged both with pre-sysprep image and they run as advertised
At this point, I tried different things on each machine then sysprepped and booted and no joy
Each time I take them back to the pre-sysprep image, they run admirably
At this point all I can say is WTF!
Now I've known the sysprep process to fail because of Sun Spots or perhaps it rained last Tuesday Morning, but I have never heard of this. In fact my brain hurts now.
May I suggest large amounts of vodka...
Is this restore CD for this specific machine? Thought the machine was built for w7 ??Quote:
... I am using HPs restore CD for this model.
I am drunk, but did you make sure the Deploy.cab was for sp3 ???
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Originally Posted by IKnowNot
Yes, the machine was built and comes factory loaded with Win7. HP will send the restore CDs to downgrade the operating system for a new machine which is what we did. So the restore CDs are for this specific machine.
The deploy.cab is SP3 also.