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A: I sort of see where you are coming from p4mtb0y, but I have noticed several posters say they are setting the imagex.hta to start with WinPE as they didn't want their techs mucking around. In these cases it would mean they would have to back out of the hta and start it again afterwards which seems a bit pointless. To satisfy both camps on this one, seeing as it wouldn't need a major change, perhaps a simple "do you want to run chkdsk" before proceeding could pop up when using capture/append. If the user clicks yes it just waits till the user enters which drive letter they which to capture/append and then uses this varible to run the chkdsk and the imagex command. B: I disagree with you here, the point of running the chkdsk in my eyes is to prevent wasting valuable time with imagex having it get half way through a capture and then failing, I've had some users who had been upgraded to Windows Vista, used it for a couple of months and then had their computer replaced. With imagex it is a simple process of capturing their workstations and then applying the image to the new PC and away they go, no setting up their custom program and settings. Just a simple reactivation and then in most cases Microsoft Update fixes the drivers. And if it is your boss getting the upgraded computer it eases the process substantially

The capture side of things does work well, but of the 5-6 computers I have imaged for backup purposes it is quite common for there to be a corrupted file in the temporary internet files, unfortunately it gets half way through the capture before hitting the T.I.F. so it would be a major advantage to run chkdsk on a drive before the capture/append. Using /r (bad sector search) would add too much time to the whole process while /f repairs the issues enough to get a good image without crashing halfway through. In regards to new ideas/improvements for this project, I'm not a scripter by any means so I'm not sure of the difficulty of this, but in regards to being able to choose/change the wim location with a prompt when starting the HTA. is there any way to run diskpart list volume and display the result within the HTA when the prompt comes up, making it easier to see which partitions/volume are where.

Hi Geezery, I have to say you're doing some truely amazing work here. I was originally trying to make my own solution using crappy old batch files and while googling discovered this thread and the rest of the brilliant team at MSFN. I was wondering if there is anyway you can modify the HTA so when started it pops up a window asking for the location of the wim files instead of hard coding it in the hta. at the moment I use a external usb hard drives to store my wim files, and its letter changes alot depending on partitions/optical drives etc. on each PC so being able to pick the wim source when starting the hta would be a huge improvement . Also may I suggest that when a capture is to be ran, a simple chkdsk /f should be run precedding the capture as imagex is prone to failing a capture halfway through if there are errors on the drive. once again thanks for all your great work, and let me know if you need any testing done, as I have a pretty good lab at our workshop.