cd-rom assignment changes back to d: after ghosting

[jlem]

Anyone have an idea of this problem?

install OS on laptop and change the cd-rw/dvd-rom to z:
create image with ghost 8


original laptop is fine, but once you blow the image down to other laptops, on first reboot XP detects new hardware and requires reboot, the cd-rw/dvd-rom is back on D:. This happens everytime no matter what I do. On my desktops that I am creating the image on it works fine. But these laptops. Here are the specs.

Laptops are HP compaq nx9110 laptops with toshiba cd-rw/dvd-rom drives.

desktops are HP dc5000sff

 

[me(who else?)]

So, when you assign the CD-ROM as z:, then install a ghost image, it shows up as D:?

Why is this a problem?

 

[poertner_1274]

I don't see why you couldn't use Windows XP computer management, then click on Disk Management. Then scroll down to your DVD drive and right click and choose change drive letter.

 

[Justin]

Are you *creating* the image on the laptops, and then ghosting? Or are you creating the image from somewhere else?

 

[jlem]

I am using one laptop to create an image for about 300 more of the exact same kind of laptops. I do change the d: to z: in computer managment but after you ghost the image and then put that image on other computers, the first reboot of those other laptops the drive is changed back to D:. This means I have to manually change all of the other almost 300 laptops to z:.

 

[LNCPapa]

Are you sysprep'ing? That will cause this behavior. Thing is, if you are performing a sysprep then you will probably need to keep doing so. Unfortunately I don't know of a solution to this problem, but I also encounter the same issue as windows will assign driver letters starting from the lowest except B.

 

[jlem]

actually I don't use sysprep for just this reason. I use another product called newsid. It works, well I might add, and it does not cause XP to re-install hardware on first boot like sysprep will. I haven't had to do it once on the desktop images yet.

 

[Justin]

Sysprep does not make XP reinstall hardware UNLESS you choose the "PnP" option which is not enabled by default.

 

[jlem]

Soul, I know that is how it "should" work, but it was not doing so when I started this project. Sysprep would force the reinstall everytime, for both the laptops and desktops. So I found newsid and it works fine on the desktops but the laptops still do it.