Question : Reimaged Computer Will Not Boot

I have been using Ghost for some time to restore computers here in our learning center. I use boot disks that map a drive to a server and I pull down the image through the ghost.exe GUI. Yesterday the wiredest thing started happening.

When a computer is re-imaged there is about a 40% chance that it will boot to the windows recovery screen where the user can choose the "last known good configuration", no matter what you choose the computer then tries to boot and gets to the first bar on the XP Splash screen and goes strait back to the last known good configuration screen. There it will stay in that loop.

I have disabled the automatic reboot on error and received the blue screen of death. This persists for multiple computers and across multiple images, some come out ok and some do not. I have tried when imaging 15 computers and just 1. It stays at about a 40% failure rate.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer : Reimaged Computer Will Not Boot

Thank you, I figured it out. The problem was not with the image. Someone just held down the buttons on about 5 computers to turn them off. I came in and re-imaged them, but Windows had already told itself that it was going to boot up to the "Last known good configuration" screen on the next startup. This persisted after the new image was put into place, an fdisk the re-image solved the problem.