[Extracting the Windows 2012 R2 RTM ISO - errors]

I have tried Win7 Enterprise, Windows 2008 R2, and Windows 2012.

Run the /log does not give any additional info.

Can anyone else verify the new RTM ISO's are causing them problems? Or verify that you were able to extract all the files from the ISO?

I do not have this problem with any of the other ISO's I've gotten from Microsoft in the past.

[Extracting the Windows 2012 R2 RTM ISO - errors]

'E:' drive is the ISO mounted through Virtual CloneDrive

'D:' drive is a NTFS partition

E: is the Source ISO

D: is the destination, and I verified that it is NTFS

Here is the output from the Robocopy try:

C:\>robocopy.exe E:\ D:\DVD\ /MIR /ETA-------------------------------------------------------------------------------   ROBOCOPY     ::     Robust File Copy for Windows-------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Started : Fri Oct 18 11:06:56 2013   Source = E:\     Dest : D:\DVD\    Files : *.*  Options : *.* /S /E /COPY:DAT /PURGE /MIR /ETA /R:1000000 /W:30------------------------------------------------------------------------------                           4    E:\                           6    E:\boot\                           1    E:\boot\en-us\                          16    E:\boot\fonts\                           1    E:\boot\resources\                           0    E:\efi\                           1    E:\efi\boot\                           0    E:\efi\microsoft\                           6    E:\efi\microsoft\boot\                          16    E:\efi\microsoft\boot\fonts\                           1    E:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\  0%        New File               18272        bootres.dll2013/10/18 11:06:56 ERROR 1 (0x00000001) Copying File E:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dllIncorrect function.

[Extracting the Windows 2012 R2 RTM ISO - errors]

Starting with a brand new ISO: Windows Server 2012 R2 RTM Datacenter/Standard ISO

My default ISO tool is 7Zip, easy, simple, my standard default app. But it doesn't read UTF. I see the following when I open it:
[bOOT] - Folder
README.TXT - File

The readme says:
"This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system
that supports the ISO-13346 "UDF" file system specification."

So we tried a native 2012 install to mount the ISO. But that could see the files, but not copy them all.

Then I tried Virtual CloneDrive. This way I can mount the ISO under Win7. Here is where I get different errors based on the tools used.

'E:' drive is the ISO mounted through Virtual CloneDrive
'D:' drive is a NTFS partition

First command to test directory creation.
xcopy E:\* D:\DVD\* /E /V /F /G /H /Y /T
creates all 871 directories (correct amount)

Second command to copy the files.
xcopy E:\* D:\DVD\* /E /V /F /G /H /Y
Gets down to this file: E:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dll
Error: The target volume does not support symbolic links

Add the option /B - "Copies the Symbolic Link itself versus the target of the link."
xcopy E:\* D:\DVD\* /E /V /F /G /H /Y /B
Gets down to this file: E:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dll
Error: The target volume does not support symbolic links

Add the option /J - "Copies using unbuffered I/O. Recommended for very large files."
xcopy E:\* D:\DVD\* /E /V /F /G /H /Y /J
Gets down to this file: E:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dll
Error: The target volume does not support symbolic links

Next tool to test was TeraCopy
Running a copy of everything in the ISO, minus the 'sources' folder, yields 145 files and 18 folders copied to D:\DVD\, and the mounted ISO has 160 files and 18 folders.

Tracking down these files gives this list:
1 - e:\efi\microsoft\boot\resources\bootres.dll
2 - e:\support\adfs\en-us\migrate-federationconfiguration.psd1
3 - e:\support\adprep\en-us\adprep.dll.mui
4 - e:\support\adprep\en-us\csvde.dll.mui
5 - e:\support\adprep\en-us\ldifde.dll.mui
6 - e:\support\logging\en-us\actionqueueetw.dll.mui
7 - e:\support\logging\en-us\auditetw.dll.mui
8 - e:\support\logging\en-us\cmisetupetw.dll.mui
9 - e:\support\logging\en-us\oobeldretw.dll.mui
10 - e:\support\logging\en-us\setupcletw.dll.mui
11 - e:\support\logging\en-us\setupetw.dll.mui
12 - e:\support\logging\en-us\setupugcetw.dll.mui
13 - e:\support\logging\en-us\sysprepetw.dll.mui
14 - e:\support\logging\en-us\windeployetw.dll.mui
15 - e:\support\logging\en-us\winsetupetw.dll.mui

xcopy E:\Sources\* D:\DVD\Sources\* /E /V /F /G /H /Y
Gets down to this file: E:\Sources\dlmanifests\microsoft-windows-storagemigration\en-us\stormigplugin.dll.mui
Error: The target volume does not support symbolic links

Then tried using TeraCopy and got lots of errors on multiple .mui and .dll files
Error: Read Error: Incorrect function.

Does anyone have any other ideas for extracting these files cleanly?

[Mounting ISO in WinPE - anyone?]

You can use portable Winmount

Thanks for the link.

However, I don't see a portable version to download.

[Mounting ISO in WinPE - anyone?]

I am trying to add the ability to mount an ISO file from inside WinPE.

Anyone tried this before?

[FixMBR]

Unhappily it didn't work for me On Win2K that is.

All the files are still there on correct (single) partition.

I've been through every Google search I can find. Checked the BIOS setting for 'Large'.

Still get "Error loading operating system"

Do I pay for Bootmaster @ $30? Will that fix it?

Wow, that's an old thread. ;-)

What is your WinPE platform (version?)

What have you tried so far?

[Enable Proxy on WinPE?]

Thankfully I don't have to worry about logging into our proxy, so maybe I'll have better luck with it. I'll update here with my results.

[Enable Proxy on WinPE?]

Great work!

I will try and duplicate it in my system sometime next week. This is a life saver.

[Enable Proxy on WinPE?]

Anyone know how to enable proxy in WinPE 3.x?

I've tried to run through the same steps that I have to do under Win2k8 R2, but netsh.exe under WinPE is a different version that doesn't support winhttp settings.

Anyone else had to deal with proxy under WinPE?

[VMWare Tools - vmrun.exe]

Have you checked dependencies?

No, not sure how to do that on something like this.

I was going to try and repackage the vmware tools, yank out what I see as the driver related stuff, and then try and create a winpe plugin for what was left.

What is the exact vmrun command you are running?

"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX\vmrun.exe" listProcessesInGuest "E:\VMWARE\Win2k8_SP2_Standard\Windows Server 2008 (experimental).vmx"

Have you tried adding the system account to the administrators group prior to changing the password?

net localgroup administrators SYSTEM /add

net user SYSTEM $trongPassword

'The user name could not be found.'

[VMWare Tools - vmrun.exe]

This error is all over google. Is VMWare Tools related to say VM Additionals?

Yes, but I have spent hours looking over google results, and haven't found anything useful. I have no idea what "VM Additionals" is.

[VMWare Tools - vmrun.exe]

Except for the vmrun thing... what exactly are you trying to automate?

/ Johan

We have our Image creation application that runs on WinPE. We want to automate the selection of options (command line options will work), so that we can create and capture the images.

I have everything working for when the OS is actually installed in the virtual machine, but the first steps in WinPE aren't looking to good.

[VMWare Tools - vmrun.exe]

Yes, I am trying to automate some system builds inside of VMWare, and WinPE is the first stage.

I have verified that the firewall is off. ( I know this because I can VNC to the system when the firewall is off, but not when it is on)

The error I get is:

Error: The VMware Tools are not running in the virtual machine: E:\VMWARE\Win2k8_SP2_Standard\Windows Server 2008 (experimental).vmx

I may have a second problem, as the vmrun command requires the username and password of the admin account so that it has the correct rights to run files, etc. However, WinPE doesn't have a real user account, is shows as "SYSTEM" and I can't change the password.

[VMWare Tools - vmrun.exe]

I've got all the vmware tool drivers integrated and working in WinPE(Win7/Win2k8R2).

However, I can not get vmrun.exe to connect to the WinPE once it is loaded in VMWare Workstation.

Anyone got this working? Or know what piece of VMWare Tools I need to work on?

[New Win7 reg entries related to folder views]

Thank you

[WInPE 3.0 + Google Chrome Portable = BSoD!]

copying the files over into a stand alone directory should not cause any issues.

My guess, is you are copying over the files to a wrong folder.

Can you give us a link to the version of chrome you are using, and the method/steps of your integration. Then we can actually give you better ideas.

[What happened to the SRT Package?]

Hi,

Is it possible to use the srt package if you don't have OPK and just the WAIK?

Yes, the WAIK has the SRT package available

[RAMDisk in WinPE3.0]

I recently upgraded my WINPE from 2005 to 3.0. In my old version of PE I used a utility to create a temporary RAMDisk to store mics. user inputs. This utility does not work in WinPE3.0. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good utility that I can use to create my RAMDrive in WinPE3.0?

Thanks in advance for all the help.

WinPE is a ram drive.

You can write files anywhere in X:\

If you need more space, the ram drive can be increased by modifying the registry of WinPE before building it.

[Dealing with WIM files...?]

GimageX in the only one I've seen. I use ImageX via command line and love it. Nothing else out there like ImageX.

EDIT: here is a link:

http://www.autoitscript.com/gimagex/

[Windows PE - Explorer File manager]

What are you trying to achieve?

Do you want a file management tool? (There are other/better options for this)

Or are you trying to get the GUI/Desktop features to work?

[WinPe 3.0 startnet.cmd and batch files]

try removing this part:

goto END

:END

[WinPe 3.0 startnet.cmd and batch files]

Sounds like the bat file is closing the startnet.cmd dos window (which would cause a reboot), but your mstart.bat code as listed, shouldn't be doing that.

[WinPe 3.0 startnet.cmd and batch files]

is the dos window closing right before it reboots?

[What happened to the SRT Package?]

Thanks for the info, but this was a two year old dead thread discussing the problems of the very first version of the WAIK, not the current one. They have since fixed the SRT package problem.

[Can't get VNC working on WinPE 3.0]

your password has to be in hex. Use the vncconfig.exe to set a password, then grab the hex from the registry.