Poonani

Is my problem here that I am pushing out XP? I am trying to find an alternative to taking the image offline every time I want to add drivers..

I am probably missing something very simple here but I have read so many forums that I think I am just getting all mixed up. I am deploying XP Pro through network, and have managed to get my NIC drivers into my boot image after a lot of trial and error.. I can not however get my 4 needed drivers to install with the WindowsXP image (NIC, Chipset, Audio, VGA) using WDS. My server consists of Windows Server 2008 R2, with WDS V:6.1.7600.16385.. My clients are all HP desktops, however I am only testing on 2x HP DX2810. What I am trying to achieve is to have my drivers added to the WDS so that it is easy to update them. Then when the computer finishes installing the image it shoudl have the drivers install (when I look in device manager) I downloaded the required 4 drivers and extracted them to a folder (extracted the EXE with WinRar) then in WDS I selected "Add Driver Package" and "Select All Driver Packages From A Folder" and pointed to my extracted files. WDS then finds 305 packages and adds them, but errors out on a few (6 packages all x64 architecture fail) The package is set to have no filters. What am I missing? I have been through a million posts and just can not see what I am stuffing up.. Please any guidance welcome Thanks! (if any other details are require please let me know)

I am booting from USB but it does not work from CD or PXE eaither To create it i am doing the following On the usb and from windows vista Diskpart select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=fat32 assign exit __________________________________ At WinPE cmd prompt type the following copype x86 c:\X86PE oscdimg -n -h -betfsboot.com iso winpe.iso imagex /mountrw winpe.wim 1 mount Copy "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86\imagex.exe" "C:\X86PE\mount\Windows\System32" peimg /install=WinPE-Scripting-Package C:\X86PE\mount\Windows imagex /unmount C:\X86PE\mount /commit xcopy C:\X86PE\winpe.wim C:\X86PE\iso\sources\boot.wim /y oscdimg -n -h -bC:\X86PE\etfsboot.com C:\X86PE\iso C:\X86PE\winpe.iso I then move the files from ISO to my thumbdrive, this works accross all other machines it's just these DX200MT that don't work

Nah still get this error.. even with 512mb in it. Anyone else have anything I can try?

Is it really that simple? I will test this week. Thanks for the quick reply too

File: \Boot\BCD Status: 0xc000000e Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data I have a WinPE image that I use to capture and deploy from however when I try to boot to WinPE on a "HP DX2000MT" I get the error above. I have seen on this forum that you can edit the BCD file using BCDedit.exe however I am not only unsure how do this, but what it is meant to achieve. I know that the BCD file is in the boot folder of my ISO (later moved to USB) but I don't know why it does not load on these machines so I don't know what it is that I should be editing in\out. If any one could clear this up I would be in your debt