chaos2305

Hi guys, i don't know if this is the right place for my problem but here go's I'm installing windows xp pro/home/mce on intel 965 chipset based motherboards. (all intel so no asus or something like that). 95 % of the time when i install the dutch version of windows windows setup failes after running sysprep. the very strange thing is that it doen not happen all the time , when we install a machine or put a ghost image on it, it failes but when we do the same procedure a second time it works fine (sometimes). To make the story even more weird, yesterday i tried a UK version of XP Pro, installed in manual, placed the sysprep folder on the machine and ran sysprep. after a reboot i get the same message we had every time " windows is not installed properly, rerun setup". but also on the uk version sysprep always failes. We install all of our xp machines with ghost images rather than opk. and we always extract the deploy.cab to the installed system an run sysprep and choose the reseal option. it worked fine for all of the past intel chipsets, but now on the 965 series it goes wrong. we almost know for sure it has something to do with the intel chipset drivers, i plyed around with some of the option in sysprep.sif regarding the massstorage drivers but it did not help. can anyone please help me with this? thanks chaos

Thanks for your awnsers guys, The problem is like the folloeing at the moment : The Adddataimage option just doen not do anything so i'm lokking for an awnser for that one. But, when i copy my WinRe.wim to the 1st partition and run the scripts, nothing happens (i get an error message that some files cannot be found). when i copy boot.sdi , diskpart.exe and bcdedit.exe to the same drive, the srip runs better, but still.... no recovery possibility. i can press f8 at boot and choose what option i want to like to do, but now recovery for me for now. tomorrow i am gonna try to make an winre image from an original dutch cista image and hope that that will work. (maybe microsoft has added something or changed something, i don't know) And i'm gonna test if the machine has to be sysprepped and activated to let WinRe work fine. also another vague area for me. ( a long with a lot of other WinRe things, but first things first) thanks

Hello All, i am triyng to install my nvidia drivers silent on my machine. but i don't want the machine to reboot and i can't seem to find the right switch(es). i use the setup.exe /s (that works) setuo.exe /k does not work and now i don't now it anymore. (i tried the switches with the .iss file but still the machine reboots). can anyone help me? thanks in advance

Hi Guys I am deploying vista thrue WDS, and the basic deployment goes fine. What i want to do now is slipstreaming drivers. because there are several drivers that work fine using the setup.exe i was thinking if its possible to copy all the necessary drivers from my wds server to the target machine and run the setup.exe with the appropriate switches with an firstlogoncommand? or is this to much work? or is it better to use the driverpaths option to add drivers? i am testing this at the moment but that does not work : What i first did was copy the whole driver folder to the "out of box drivers" folder and add a driverpatch command in my unattended.xml file. When this did'nt work, i copyd the contents of the driver folder to the root of the "out of box drivers folder". At my first test i had the below folder structure : out of box drivers VGA GF7600 Driver files And now i have : out of box driver VGA Driver files but this does not work also. Can someone help me with my problems? thanks in advance

Ok ill look into that, and how about my copying problem? i tried several thing but i'm still stuck

Thanks martin, So i have to copy my winre to c: en that change the target to c:? The command i use in my .cmd file is : copy \\wsus\winre\winre.wim C:\ and the 2nd command file is is xcopy \\servername\data\Scripts\SetAutoFailover.cmd %windir%\system32\scripts\ %windir%\system32\scripts\setautofailover.cmd /wim /target c: /mainos {default} /disk 0 /partition 1 (this command is to run the setautofailover command) Yesterday i copyd the winre.wim to c: manually en ran the setautofailover command. my first partition is indeed hidden, so i think the setautofailover has worked, but how can i test if the failover works? i tried to startup and pressed F8. but when i choose repair, the system askes me to instert my vista dvd..... maybe i am doing something wrong? these are the steps i took to create my installation : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> - <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> - <settings pass="windowsPE"> - <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> - <WindowsDeploymentServices> - <Login> - <Credentials> <Domain></Domain> <Password></Password> <Username></Username> </Credentials> </Login> - <ImageSelection> - <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> </InstallTo> </ImageSelection> </WindowsDeploymentServices> - <DiskConfiguration> - <Disk wcm:action="add"> - <CreatePartitions> - <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>2</Order> <Size>40000</Size> <Type>Primary</Type> <Extend>false</Extend> </CreatePartition> - <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Size>5000</Size> <Type>Primary</Type> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> - <ModifyPartitions> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Extend>true</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>OS</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>WinRe</Label> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> </DiskConfiguration> </component> </settings> - <settings pass="oobeSystem"> - <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> - <Reseal> <Mode>Audit</Mode> </Reseal> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="catalog:d:/distribution/operating systems/install_windows vista ultimate.clg" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend> and for the creation of the WinRe i followed most of the microsofts manual... thanks in advance

Hi Guys, i'm having difficultys copying files to my target machine. In the microsoft's guide of WinRe it says when creating an image based recovery you'll have to copy your Winre.wim to the target machine's root. and run some scripts. and but what sort of command's do i put into the script? i tried with an xcopy and copy command, but that díd'nt work. i alse have difficultys running scripts on my target machine, i want to automatticly run the SetAutoFailover.cmd on the target machine to set the WinRe options but that doe not work also. the command line for this is "setautofailover.cmd /wim /target d: /mainos {default} /disk 0 /partition 1", i want to run it automatic to set the first partition to WinRe. what i don't get is the d: is this the drive where the os is on? i searched the microsoft site for explanation of these options but i could'nt find them. what in my xml file is : - <RunSynchronous> - <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> - <Credentials> <Domain></Domain> <Password></Password> <Username></Username> </Credentials> <Description>copywinre</Description> <Order>1</Order> <Path>D:\RemoteInstall\data\Scripts\CopyWinRe.cmd</Path> </RunSynchronousCommand> </RunSynchronous> </component> thanks in advance chaos2305