Problems joining domain

[mesirbob]

Hi:

Not sure if this is the correct forum for this question, but hopefully someone has some idea's.

We have some ThinkPad laptops that were created from an image which was built with Acronis 10.

The problem we experience is we join the domain, get the welcome to the domain message, all is still ok at this point. The laptop is then restarted, after the shutdown we get the message "Missing operating system...". It seems as though the partition table has been destroyed.

Does anyone have any idea as to what may cause this?

Thanks

 

[Lemon13]

are there sata or ide drives in?
starting, shutdown and restart without joining the domain is working?
what os is on the client?
did u sysprep the original image?
automatic updates are set to what?

i dont think just joining the domain will crash the hd, there must be a prob with the image, i.e missing controller driver......

 

[mesirbob]

The computer runs fine, has done for some time. The domain is joined, still runs fine, then the reboot - partition table appears to be gone after the first reboot since joining the domain.

This is XP SP2 patched.

Auto update is off. The drive is SATA.

 

[TheMisio]

Mesirbob,

It’s really weird. Have you tried booting the machine up using some sort of startup CD (i.e. BartPE or Linux distro that can read NTFS) and look at the partition info?
Only because you get the message that there is no OS doesn’t mean partitions are gone. The problem could be (although it’s very unlikely) that the boot.ini has been modified after joining the domain. Check if partitions exist. If they do, locate boot.ini and check where the OS path is pointing to.

Let me know if you need any more info on bootable CD and I will point you in the right direction.

Regards,

Michael

 

[mesirbob]

Thanks Michael. Our local guy has checked the partition table after the machine is trashed and the partition table is essentially gone. It is really weird! I have seen something similar before that a "fdisk /mbr" fixed, but that isn't doing it for this one.

We don't need to go into any major troubleshooting here, I was hoping someone had experienced this before and as such would know what the cause was. It is affecting about 6 to 10 systems, up to now that is They can be rebuilt and re-imaged.

Thanks