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Some of my VB6 programs fail to run when I boot winpe to a ramdrive (pe1.6) and the same seems to be for winpe2. both booting from RIS or WDS. Any known reason why? Straight RIS or CD boot works fine....

I use WinPE 1.6 everyday in work and we now have HP systems with the AMD64 on board. Though most will boot to winpe (Via RIS Server) some don't. In the PE cd there is a directory for the AMD64 with different files. Where do I put these files in the PE image or do I have to create a totally seperate PE image and replace these files> PE Help document is very forthcomming... Thanks

XImage no longer exists..... It has been withdrawn in Beta2 ImageX is it's new replacement - long live ImageX

A new Windows AIK got Vista/WinPE 2 was released on 25th May on the connect web site if you guys didnt know... and it seems to work

Welcome aboard....

Was this ever resolved. Can mount and commit changes when running on Win 2003 Server but cannot access the mounted wims on XPsp2...

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Found it - PEIMG is used. drvload is only used for adding inside a booted environment

what is the correct syntax for drvload? Mounted the winpe image and suggestions are drvload /offline c:\driverpath\drive.inf c:\winpe\windows summing runs but no messages, even completes if i havent got the image mounted... TIA ps everything is from the feb waik...

Well, the powers above deem it important for me to continue. I now have the waik, vista, wds all installed and running. Ximage learnt. Now, what to do with that command prompt?????

Ah, I can't find it, now bored, will wait till 2007... Keep me employed for another year...

Is it in the feb ctd?

Thanks... Still cant find it.

Hi, We have a very good 2003 PE setup for our deployment center atm but want to look at winpe 2.0. Been through the forums and gathered bits of informaion but need to know what I need to build pe 2.0. Please can you supply what I require and where to get it from. I am a Beta member and OEM subscribed as well as SA customer of Microsoft. TIA

dont forget to make the partition active as well in disk part. You may also suffer from mbrproblems too. the only way I know of writing mbr in pe is using the latest version of gdisk32.

The first time you boot WinPE through RIS will take a long time especially if running on a slow system. The reason for this is it needs to write PNF files (Precompiled inf files) for every inf file it can locate, check in you i386 folder for all the pnf files, should be around 670. If they exist try deleting them and restarting the binlsvc see what happens. VMWARE is a very slow environment for WinPE unless you find a way to load all the VMTools.

Try renaming one of the drivers and all matching entries in the inf file...

I have seen this but dont use barts. will see if i can convert it when i am not so busy... thanks

All the RIS screens are cut down html. Study the code in the screens and follow your traces to the last screen. Learn how they work. You still need an windows account attatched to the *.sif file in i386\templates within your pe image but you can hard code this into the variables in the RIS screens. I cannot tell you how to get to the end result you require as I have not done this myself but I did modify the screens to 1x login, 1x warning so i only have 2 screens - need this as the end user requires to use lots of different login accounts. The welcome.osc asks for the account information so you should be able to hard code the variables there and automatically let the screen go through. Sorry I can't be of more help. If I get time to look into it over the weekend then I will but we are up to our necks at work... Good luck.

I wonder how he got the printer installed under PE? Is it possible to print to a network printer from within PE?

Currently you need to be SA. There is nothing stopping you making your own PE like barts though as long as the computer you are using it on has it's own XP license.

IMHO I cannot see the reason for reducing the image size. Save a few KB or seconds Isn't really worth the hassle of a broken WinPE disk. You need to run ghost32.exe in Pe, this can be either manual or scripted. Locate the starnet.cmd file, edit the rubbish out then add your commands to the end. Bit like autoexec.bat. Sata is support though not all controllers. Adding Sata drivers is easy well covered in this forum just do a search. To test if you can see your Sata Drive, boot to WinPE, change drive to c: and look. If it is a clean drive run diskpart and select drive 0, if iot mounts it works.

Ah, is the tftp that is screwing up the windows networking. I know nothing about this cept that it stops the card functioning correctly. There is a workaround but I dont know it atm. summing about keeping the undi or summing commited to memory. If i find it I will let you know.

The problem with PE is the inf files are not read correctly. Though they work ok from CD the parser in RIS screws up. It sounds as if you have the modified inf file in the $oem$\$1\[yourdriver] or it would not load the gui. What you need to do is replace the inf file under i386\inf and any other location it might be. After replacing files yo need to do: Search the i386 tree for all *.pnf files and delete them. It wont work if you dont do this.. Important also is to restart the binlsvc service running on the ris server - net stop binlsvc and net start binlsvc Is this Windows/RIS or another method?

Simply, WinPE is a product from microsoft for system builders and oems as a pre-installation interface kind of thing. BartPE is simular but not recognised by MS. It uses a vastly reduced subset of the operating system simular to the way PE works. For some people, Barts is a godsend, for others WinPE is a nightmare that they need to use because of the environment they work in. Either products you need to be suitably licensed for. Barts is covered better in www.911cd.net forums.