1/14/09

Error 643


I have the unfortunate luck of running into this issue after being told 30 minutes before the end of my day that this particular laptop needed to have a Norton Ghost image loaded onto it and then deployed.

My co-worker indicated that she was unable to figure out the problem.

It took me about five minutes on google... Mostly because the fist few posts went on and on about adjusting the pagefile size. That is until I ran into a fellow blogger's post, cloning a hard disk with Ghost 10 and a USB external disk from Mark Lund. He had several notes at the end of his post, including details about Error 643, where he indicated to get around the error he deleted the partitions on his hard drive and the loaded a new image onto the drive.

This is exactly what I did. Simply, I used the HP Drive Sanitizer that our new laptops come with (in BIOS). I quickly got rid of the partitions and then got Ghost up and running.

[Side Note]
I did have a much more detailed description of this issue written up on my corporate laptop... Which promptly crashed yesterday evening, losing my post. :(

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

wokrs fine perfect , all the stuff from pagefile and reoving certain files is B$, like u said, remove partitions and rerty.

Thanks.