What is the OS running on the machine? Andy
Andrew Ekhoff Technology Coordinator St. Anne Public Schools aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us> SAGS: (815) 427-8153 SACHS: (815) 427-8141 From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Scott Siri Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:20 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] FOG Pulling Image Partition trouble It is flagged as the boot partition. There is no recovery console that I know about. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Ekhoff, Andrew <aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us>> wrote: I would go into recovery console and try a fixboot. Also, boot into gparted and check if the partition is flagged as a boot partition. Andy Andrew Ekhoff Technology Coordinator St. Anne Public Schools aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us> SAGS: (815) 427-8153 SACHS: (815) 427-8141 From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org> [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org>] On Behalf Of Scott Siri Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:41 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] FOG Pulling Image Partition trouble 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<mailto: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<mailto: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 | *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL.
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