louis.wang

What version of the WAIK do you have? My help file says, "To add a langauge pack to a Windows PE image offline - 1. TBD" Was there a newer version release?

Why do you need a computer running Windows Vista? Do you not intend to use the winpe.wim that comes with the WAIK? I've been able to create a bootable USB key in the following manner: * Copy the folder "boot" from C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86 to the USB key * Create a folder named \Sources on the USB key * Copy the file winpe.wim or boot.wim to the \Sources folder on the USB key, and rename it to boot.wim if necessary * Copy the file bootmgr from C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86 to the root of the USB key * Install the Windows Vista Boot loader by running the command, with the appropriate drive letter for the USB key: bootsect.exe /nt60 d: Not to contaminate your results, but please report on what you did with your computer running Windows Vista. I have no means, right now, of creating a Japanese bootable PE image. I hope I can create one by accessing a Japanese Vista machine, though, but have no ideas how.

Hey all, does anyone know how to create a Japanese Vista PE image? The problem I am running into is that the WAIK, normally used to create a PE image, only has an English winpe.wim file. If I try to use the WAIK to create a PE image from one of the Japanese Vista ISOs, I get an error with the SYSTEMROOT directory during boot. This is using the boot.wim provided on the Japanese Vista ISO. There is also an install.wim, but that happens to be 2.4gb in size... just a little bit unwieldy! Does anyone have any more information? Do you have to install the Japanese OS first? Then what do you do? I'm not trying to install the OS on a system but actually just trying to create a bootable Japanese PE image. I haven't seen any mention of using the WAIK to produce non English PE environments... or using the beta ISOs to create PE environments... or using an installed Vista system to create a bootable PE environment. If there is such information, can you point it out please? Many thanks! EDIT: Several days later... By the lack of response it would seem there isn't much interest or knowledge in this topic. The thread has been read about 28 times without any posts. In prior versions of PE you could use an install CD/DVD to create PE images, but that doesn't seem possible with Vista. I will keep looking anyway, thanks.