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I do believe I have the drivers in the mass storage section. I added them there a week or 2 ago. I'll give this all another read-thru and a go

I have the sata drivers. And it works fine when I go SATA to SATA or IDE to IDE. But going SATA to IDE or IDE to SATA is where the problems are. And if I go SATA to IDE, why wouldnt it be able to read the IDE drive and give me the same error?

I don't know why either. But it gives me the Windows Menu where you choose "last good configuration", safe mode, and all that stuff. Have no idea where it came from. It works fine if I do it SATA to SATA or IDE to IDE What's the difference between your /mode=load and my command of -clone,mode=restore, .....

I've discovered my issue with Ghost and Sata. If I take a image of a drive that was created on an IDE drive, it does not properly copy the boot sector over to the SATA drive. And the same thing happens vice versa. Would using DiskPart eliminate that problem?

These computers are all 3 years old or less.... IBM T40s, Compas DX200 and higher.

s***. I have ACPI PC listed. I guess I should check one out of the box, before it gets imaged. (im running on an imaged machine. I am designing th new image, so this computer may be 'tainted'. What would you suggest?

I realize this is an older thread....but does the order of the switches after ghost32.exe matter? This is my script: :ghost ECHO. ECHO. ECHO Please select Hard Drive Echo A)SATA Echo B)IDE ECHO --=====-- ECHO C)Go back to begining choice /c:ABC /N if errorlevel 3 GOTO menu if errorlevel 2 set ide =-auto -fx if errorlevel 1 set ide =-auto -fx -fni net use S: \\%server%\currentimage * /USER:%domain%\%username% ECHO. ECHO. ECHO You will now be imaging a computer. Any data on that computer will be destroyed. When you are ready, PAUSE ghost32.exe -clone,mode=restore,src=S:\CSIimage.gho,dst=1 -sure -quiet %ide% GOTO exit Should the -fni be moved up?

How can I determine what HAL is being used?

If I have created a standard image, do I need to change the HAL if I run sysprep after the machine is ghosted. (when it boots, sysprep runs). I have IBM laptops and HP desktops. There is no proprietary software on either of them. The image was designed off a XP corporate install image. If I do need to change the Hals, how do i?

I have 2 versions of winbom.ini on my Winpetemp folder. One in winpetemp\ and the other in winpetemp\I386\. Which one is right? The other question is that I want to add a few dns search suffixes to PE to search for some servers. Where do I add that entry. I've been reading the documentation, but I'm a bit confused because I don't have an unattended.txt or sysprep.sif Do I have to create those?

I just finished designing an unattended installation. I have tested it many times. One of my testers has told me that on his laptop, the properties window of My Computer and My Network Places (examples) has been VERY slow to open. Is there a setting somewhere that could be affecting the speed of the process, or tieing it up?

XP..... The thing is the driver loads the second run of startcmd...except for that error.... I am able to connect to a network drive and download a ghost image.... Do I need to set up anything in my winbom file? I never touched it

But the driver takes after a second run of startcmd, except for the factory error

I have been working well on a Windows PE... I got it booting, and giving me choices in startnet.cmd. When it attemps to connect to the network, it says Error 1231. Then i run ipconfig, and it says I have an IP address. I run startnet.cmd from the prompt again, and I get an error that says: "Factory.exe failed to install network adapter. Check Winbom." I click OK...and it continues running startnet.cmd..and then everything works. How can I eliminate that error. What causes it? And why does it work a second time around?

When I load up the OPK CD...the setup.exe says version 2002... so thats the first part of the problem... I will scrap this CD and go with a more recent one that I have

I made a basic Windows PE boot install. After using MKIMAG to get the original temp directory, I used drvinst to add 2 or so drivers. I also added a SATA directory to system32. I then used oscdimg to make a bootable image so I could test in VMware. Everytime it boots, it has the wallpaper of mountain with the moon. Then I get a error lsass.exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (Oxc0000142). Click OK to terminate the application. Then it reboots, and repeats. Also, there is a quick screen flicker before that happens. Any ideas

Why is my CD not bootable from the above command? Am I missing something?

I'm new to PE..about 3 days in actually. I'm not unfamiliar with imaging, as I've just finished desiging the image for my company. I understand the process of taking the WinPE directory from the CD, copying to to a build directory, and then you use MKimg... But I don't know how to customize it. I really don't want to do much more than remove some network drivers, make sure it has SATA support, and launch ghost.exe In the WinPE help file, it says I can remove *.nf files from \%windir%\. But other than the winpetemp folder I create to make the iso, i don't know where to edit those. And if I edit the WinPETemp folder..how do I make it into an ISO? Oscdimg -h -n c:\winpetemp c:\peiso.iso? Also, How do I add Ghost and Sata drivers into it?

I've searched high and low with no luck. Is there a way to disable the WMP icon from appearing on new users desktops. It's obviously not in the AllUserProfiles\Desktop folder. Can it be disabled completely?

Is that key bound to a specific device, or is it a global key that I can use on any system. I tried that, and it imported, but the settings didn't take. the radio and check box are the butons right above the 'append these..."

I'm looking for a few registry entries...I want to pre-configure the DNS suffixes in the advanced TCPIP settings.... I know that in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] the "Append these DNS suffixes(in order)" is located in "SearchList" and "DNS suffix for this connection" is in "NV Domain" but where do I find the setting to enable the radio button for "Append these...." and to disable the above checkbox and radio button

Does the key AutoLogonCount limit a specific account from logging on, or is it any account that attempts to autologon. What I mean is: Via a vb script: Administrator logs in, runs some installs. changes DefaultUserName and DefaultPassword to set it Admin2. Computer reboots Admin2 would log in, and run some commands. (profile copy, etc). If I have autologon count set, would it permit Admin2 to autologin, or would it have to be deleted and recreated for Admin2?

Well, I was wrong. That error message was not the culprit. The problem is that the registry file doesn't take for some reason. If I execute the .reg file and import everything..it doesnt take. But if I go and manually see that the files are there, then it takes? Any ideas? It doesnt matter if it is a VB script or .reg file. it doesnt take it does exist. I create it during cmdlines.txt. I get to the logon screen and it is there. The password is accurate. I don't get a prompt for wrong password. And if I log in, and run the script a second time or I check on it manually, it seems to work.

After some research, I discovered this message as the culprit: "Some keys are open by the system or other processes." I am running this as administrator. Any ideas?

I have a script that runs..it sets Auto Logon for a user, restarts, is supposed to log in as that user, copies the default profile, restarts then auto logs in as the admin, deletes that user, and all is done. I've tried using vb script: Sub AutoLogin1 ' add registry key for autoadmin logon oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "AutoAdminLogon", "1" ' add registry key for autoadmin logon oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "DefaultUserName", "Admin2" ' add registry key for autoadmin password oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "DefaultPassword", "testing" ' add registry key to execute script after reboot through run once oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce", "Runsysprep", "C:\install\RnSysprp.vbs" oIEDoc.WriteLn "<p><center><font color=""blue"">Registry keys for Autologon set</font></center></p>" Wscript.Sleep 2500 End Sub AND This works Sub AutoLogin2 ' add registry key for autoadmin logon oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "AutoAdminLogon", "1" ' add registry key for autoadmin logon oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "DefaultUserName", "Administrator" ' add registry key for autoadmin password oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", "DefaultPassword", "mypassword" ' add registry key to execute script after reboot through run once oReg.SetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce", "Runsysprep", "C:\install\RnSysprp.vbs" oIEDoc.WriteLn "<p><center><font color=""blue"">Registry keys for Autologon set</font></center></p>" Wscript.Sleep 2500 End Sub Am I missing something here?