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Yup, Had this problem with some newer Broadcom cards, Updated the drivers and reduced the time quite significantly.

Not to sure about wds but if you had legacy mode on, I have booted upto 16mb of tools in a dos environment and custom xp iso's through the old RIS menu's.

Sorted it....wdsutil /set-server /architecturediscovery:yes

Thought I would play with the 64 bit version of WinPe2. All the servers we run use 2003 x64 but when booting to wds only the 32bit version is available. Any way of making this available through WDS? Or can I get the 32bit version to scan more than 3.xx gb of memory?

The only issue I have with systems freezing are some model HP dx5150's (AMD64), if the engineer keeps pressing the F12 key too often then wds will hang. Perhaps the keyboard buffer is killing pe.

We always image the whole drive but we deploy images to hundreds of systems each day. If the system has a data partition which requires to be left intact then image just the partition. The only utility I know of that will write to a partition after ghost is pq addendum from powerquest but it's not cheap. Why can't you use diskpart to rescan the drives after ghost has exited? I use it as default.

If you run diskpart just to rescan the hard drive all partitions will show.

So far I have had PE find all mass storage controller drivers. Think the rule is hardware later than Nov 2006 may need drivers installed. This is not too akward to do as instructions are included in the PE documentation. As you have so many devices, check the Vista HCL at http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista...3.mspx?mfr=true

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Not to sure about the hta stuff. May need to copy it from the server to local ramdisk and run it then. WMI is not built into the core PE2 but install the package, not documented by MS~: peimg /install=WinPE-wmi-Package c:\.....................

Glad to help. /emote Gadget Bows for the first time....

Easy: Don't create a RAM drive, just create a folder on your x: i.e. x:\ramdrive then use subst b: x:\ramdrive I was toying with the idea of porting my pe1.6 ram drive over but this is much easier....

Any hints on how to use BCDedit?

Has anyone cracked the netware client for WinPE 2.0. Have spent a bit of time on this mimicking what I done for 1.6 but to no sucess. TIA

Sounds good.

Missed the second post... Forget It.

Not only do you have to import your vista images but there is a boot.wim with vista that you need to import into wds. Yup?

Why don't you use the legacy ris to load a dos boot image - upto 16mb if I remember correctly...

Install the waik and you will have it. It is freely available to everyone now.

WDS is an upgrade to RIS (Bout time). It is freely available at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en Install the WAIK on a xp-sp2/2003-sp1 system and all the documentation is there including mounting wims, imxgex ect... **EDIT** The download page has changed now. Instead of one ISO there are 3 seperate downloads. The WAIK's should contain WDS, not to sure now... The link for the full cd iso is http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/6...5-LRMAIK_EN.img

Wims are loades using the new Windows Deployment Services WDS included with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (waik). RIS is upgradable with wds and all your RIS stuff is still available. The good thing about WDS is the compatability with newer hardware (RIS is like 7+ years old).

I have just converted all our stuff to run from Ram Drive via RIS/PXE but will be the same for cd. I just drop all the drivers in when running the makeimg.cmd using drvinst.exe (run from just before the 'REM Check if we need to create a image' line. Example of syntax 'c:\[Path To Drinst\drvinst.exe /inf:c:\[Path to your drivers inf file] c:\[PE Compiled Output directory] '. Going through ris/pxe then use the attached inf file (as included in the latest drivers) to be put in the $oem$ directory as above Oh, and a steelhead is a fish, yes? e1000nt5.inf

This is the product my engineers use.... http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/

urrg.

Well I'm SORRY, Dropped the first thing that popped into my head. Tell you what, when I finish my Vacation, I will check in the office for the net wrapper I use, if I can be bothered....