Sysprep will not complete

[polrbear]

Polrbear:

Please tell me you are not using a DELL restore CD.

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.

[dinowuff]

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

[polrbear]

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

[dinowuff]

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...

[IKnowNot]

... I am using HPs restore CD for this model.

Is this restore CD for this specific machine? Thought the machine was built for w7 ??

I am drunk, but did you make sure the Deploy.cab was for sp3 ???

[polrbear]

Is this restore CD for this specific machine? Thought the machine was built for w7 ??

I am drunk, but did you make sure the Deploy.cab was for sp3 ???

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.