I want to make a quick write up about how we ended with some broken imaged workstations.
So the problem initially was that we imaged about 50 devices with ZCM 11.3.0 with an imaging script. And although we followed the things our novell partner gave us, we ended up with images on the machines where the system reserved partition of the windows 7 machines was only 22MB (instead f the 100MB recommended). Somewhere the partition got shrinked while imaging. The problems that resulted where that sometimes the machines won't boot.
The other point at doing this work was that we looked into options to speed up the workstations and the obvious way was to exchange the 7200rpm HDDs for some nice Samsung EVO 850 SSDs.
Scenario is as follows: The old HDDs hav a capacity of 1TB. But since all the files are stored in a DMS and a storage, the hard drives only contained 60GB of data. So we opted for a cheap solution and got 120GB EVOs. So basically we needed to shrink the volumes to fit onto the 120GB. ZCM Imaging has almost all the tools needed on it.
the repair program wiill recognise a broken windows installtion and try to fix it. Do not the accept the question to let Windows repair it automatically and instead go for the recovery tools.
Reboot the workstration and let chkdsk do its thing. The chkdsk ist scheduled by the ntfsresize from point 2.
So there we have it: we got all of the data from one HDD to the other and expanded the broken system partition.
I hope for someone else this can be needy. It solved some not booting up machines on our site.
Last edited by s_vogel; 21-May-2015 at 02:14 PM.