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Hi there, Thanks to everyone who has replied, to my topic, i finally got it working, all the steps which i was taking seemed to be right, but there is a small issue which was causing this all trouble. The reason why my PE was crashing as the image size was abit big (178MB) but the ramdisk size was lower then that, when i added the [Auto Ramdisk Resizer] plugin to PE Builder i got it working, there were also some errors which were giving me NTDETECT.COM , NTOSKRNL and few other were missing or could not be loaded, i have expanded them from the SP1 windows 2003 CD and everything is perfectly working. Thanks to you guys once again for helping me, however many many thanks to R.Collewijn website, i have followed his tutorial and got it working. A TFTPD32 server as RIS Server. Regards,

Hi p4ntb0yI am running DHCP, DNS, AD on the same server and it has Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 installed, i am using the microsoft builtin tftp which comes with WDS/RIS. DHCP is configured to not listen to port 67 and configure port 60 for PXE clients. I have created the legacy image using RIS to create the folder structure and configure the right permissions. then removed the image and created custom folder called (PE) and under PE folder i have created i386 and under i386 the templates folder containing these files Downloaded MS Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (RC). It is a SFX CAB archive. the contents of my Winnt file is: The image loads to the ramdisk from the server fine and even shows the progress bar saying BartPE Starting, after that the Blue screen comes up and crashes the operating system. I have burned the same image to CD and booted from CDROM and it works fine, also tried that with MS Virtual Machine and no problems at all. Regards,

Hi p4ntb0y, Thank you very much for taking your time to reply, i have 512MB ram on my computer, i have tried to boot to the same image on three different types of machines and the result was the same for all. i have tried changing the image type from flat to winpe and didnt succeed either. I would really appreciate if you could guide me a bit in detail regarding booting from BartPe image, this is a part of my Degree project, i doesnt matter which way you configure it as long as i am able to run the BartPe image over the network, or if you have any documentation regarding configuring winpe, that would be also nice if you could share a copy of that with me. my project is due within next two weeks, i really need to make this working. Regards,

Hi there, I am trying to boot the BartPE image over the network using Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS) and here i am writing the details of how i have configured. The folder structure is as following Under templates i have the following files and the content of sif file is as following: [SetupData] BootDevice ="ramdisk(0)" BootPath ="\i386\System32\" OsLoadOptions ="\noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\BartPE.iso" Architecture ="i386" [RemoteInstall] Repartition = No [OSChooser] Description=“briefdescription” Help=“longerdescription” LaunchFile ="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com" ImageType =Flat Version = "5.2(0)" the ISO image is under When i boot from iso, after loading the image from tft to the ram, the progress bar of Starting BartPE apears, and then the windows XP progress bar starts then the blue screen comes stating the following..... I have build the BartPE image from windows2003 SP1 using PE Builder. Could anyone please help me with this problem. Regards,

Hi there, I am trying to boot the BartPE image over the network using Microsoft Remote Installation Service (RIS) and here i am writing the details of how i have configured. The folder structure is as following E:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\BartPE\i386\templates Under templates i have the following files NTDETECT.COM NTLDR SETUPLDR.EX_ STARTROM.CO_ STARTROM.COM Winnt.sif and the content of sif file is as following: [SetupData] BootDevice ="ramdisk(0)" BootPath ="\i386\System32\" OsLoadOptions ="\noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\BartPE.iso" Architecture ="i386" [RemoteInstall] Repartition = No [OSChooser] Description=“briefdescription” Help=“longerdescription” LaunchFile ="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com" ImageType =Flat Version = "5.2(0)" the ISO image is under E:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\BartPE\i386 When i boot from iso, after loading the image from tft to the ram, the progress bar of Starting BartPE apears, and then the windows XP progress bar starts then the blue screen comes stating the following..... A PROBLEM HAS BEEN DETECTED AND WINDOWS HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER. AN INITIALIZATION FAILURE OCCURRED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BOOT FROM THE RAM DISK. IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS STOP ERROR SCREEN, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER. IF THIS SCREEN APPEARS AGAIN, FOLLOW THESE STEPS: CHECK TO MAKE SURE ANY NEW HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE IS PROPERLY INSTALLED. IF THIS IS A NEW INSTALLATION, ASK YOUR HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE MANUFACTURER FOR ANY WINDOWS UPDATES YOU MIGHT NEED. IF PROBLEMS CONTINUE, DISABLE OR REMOVE ANY NEWLY INSTALLED HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, DIABLE BIOS MEMORY OPTIONS SUCH AS CACHING OR SHADOWING. IF YOU NEED TO USE SAFE MODE TO REMOVE OR DISABLE COMPONENTS, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER, PRESS F8 TO SELECT ADVANCED STARTUP OPTIONS, AND THEN SELECT SAFE MODE. TECHNICAL INFORMATION: *** STOP: 0X000000F8 (0X00000002, 0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000) I have build the BartPE image from windows2003 SP1 using PE Builder. Could anyone please help me with this problem. Regards,