USB Thumb drive fails to image new classmate

[kdickie]

We had to purchase a new Classmate to replace the FIRST supplied Classmate. We are attempting to image it using the USB thumb drive recently supplied by FIRST. We followed the instructions found at http://decible.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9556. The process failed once it got to the x:\windows\system32\wpeinit claiming restoreds is not recognizable. We determined that restoreds is a command line “script” that had references to an image file (10-2-09image.wim) files located on a “D” drive, presumably the thumb drive. We discovered that the thumb drive was actually the “f” drive and changed the path to look for the image on the thumb drive. This allowed the process to continue past the error. Now, the process gets past the partitioning and attempts to install the image. The process gets to 19% and errors complaining about a corrupt UDP.llb file.

At present the Classmate will not boot complaining about a missing \system32\hal.dll file, likely because the image was not fully restored.

We have repeated the above with the original restoreds file (pointing to “d” for the image) and we get to 19% and error with the same results.

It seems that our image is corrupt, however we just received this copy from FIRST.

Any advise?