June 27, 2008

Back in October 2007, I created a 6-user Vista image using a customer's laptop.

I imaged the Windows and data partitions on DVD and CD disks.

However, for the longest time I could not get the image to boot on my
desktop PC.

By hacking around and some lucky serendipity I managed to boot the image
on 1 of my PCs.  However, I could not boot it on the other PC.

For the longest time I had no knowledge of the error message!

Just recently, I discovered I can tell Windows not to automatically 
restart after the blue screen of death (BSOD).

Fortunately, I discovered mergeide.zip which prevents stop errors like

stop: 0x0000007b (0x80604ba0, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Finally I can deploy my vista image!

I think it may be wise to turn off screen saver and to set computer hibernation to never.

Right click anywhere on the desktop >personalize >screen saver >select none >apply

Click Change power settings >balanced >Change Plan settings

Set turn off display to 3 hours
Set put the computer to sleep to never
Click save changes