I had similar trouble a few months ago. On my laptops I always add a 4 to 8 GB FAT partition and drop a link to it on all user's desktops. This allows staff to have a place to put files they can access if on the domain or away. We were is a bit of a hurry so I did not clean up the Dell recovery partition. This let many partitions that seemed to caused dd ( I believe FOG uses GNU/Linux dd) problems. Also W7 seems to do something new with the MBR I have not seen before that forces drive maintenance to, it looks like, rebuild the MBR. Just a guess, the HD needed some system recovery work using the boot up utilities on the OS disk.
The fix involved using the very latest GPartd (the summer release had a bad data destroying bug) to remove all of those blasted utility/recovery partitions - both the recovery boot and the recovery data partition and the OS boot disk maintenance mentioned [ this maintenance was needed after GPartd did its job]. Then that image was easily uploaded and deployed using the OUTSTANDING and indispensable FOG. Excellent work Chuck and Jian!! HTH BK On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Scott Siri <ss...@mendotahs.org> wrote: > I got impatient. I combined all three partitions into one last night. Look > this morning like it hosed the machine. Unless there is a bios setting I'm > missing, it seems to be having trouble loading the OS. The partition is now > called dev\sda2 according to gparted. > > is this the normal name for the primary partition? My understanding is I > can't rename the partition without killing all data on it. I did not get > that warning when I combined the FATs onto the NTFS last night. > > The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600. We have many of these and I just > wanted an image. Silly me to think it would be simple. > > Scott > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:05 AM, K Lesko <kle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Sounds like a manufacturer's utility partition and a partition to restore >> the OS. What brand of computers are they? I am not sure what the best way >> to proceed would be. If you have more than one of these systems that you >> can get an image from I would use a partition editor from a boot disk (DOS >> FDISK, GPARTED) to eliminate the FAT partitions and see if FOG would then >> allow you to pull an image. >> >> If this is the only system you have I would use ghost or clonzilla etc. to >> get an image of the OS before I messed with the partitions. If the above >> doesn't work you may need to re-partition the drive to a single NTFS >> partition and put the OS image back on before FOG will pull an image. >> >> Let us know, I will likely be headed down this path in a week or so. . . >> >> Kevin >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Scott Siri <ss...@mendotahs.org> wrote: >>> >>> I have a computer all ready to pull an image from. >>> >>> FOG wont do it and the errors seem to point to a partition issue. >>> >>> The hard drive seems to have a FAT partition of 49MB, FAT32 partition of >>> 3.5GB and NTFS partition of 145GB. >>> >>> I don't know when or why these were all created on here. Can I merge the >>> two small ones into the larger without killing off my OS? I'm pretty basic >>> when it comes to understanding of file systems and partitions. >>> >>> Scott >>> >>> >>> *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
