cyberwatchers

Okay sorry did not get back to the forum yesterday the ski was falling and people needed things "ASAP" you know the deal. I am forwarding the diskpart .txt you asked about. diskpart.txt

Yes I ment to do that today while in the office and forgot. I will do that tomorrow.

I am able to take an image by switching to drive d:\. all seems to be working. I am thinking I will have to image the recovery as well (c:\) anyway I am forwarding the screen shot as well. thanks for all the help!

I have not been in to work but I will be back in tomorrow and will provide my findings. Thanks for all the help. I remember seeing one partition, C and the recovery partition. I am assuming that I just have to CD to D:\ maybe. I will provide a snapshot. I will list the volumes once in PE as well. (Diskpart)

Wow. I remember the recovery being a a different partition. I will take a stab at it on Monday when I am back in the office. I will also try changing directory to D:\ while in PE and see if that works. The C:\ drive while the system is booted is labled OS (c:). I do not have any way of providing a screenshot until Monday. Thanks for your reply.

No I am placing the USB directly to the new company laptop Dell E6500 so that I can run PE Imagex /capture. from that laptop once in PE I NET USE to a shared folder on our file server where I would store the new image. The capture works but it only captures around 300 MB of the recovery partition which it sees as C:\. For some reason I do not see: users, program files etc etc. It works on my personal laptop running Vista meaning it see's all of the c:\ but not on the E6500. Very strange. I am sure I am missing something small. Thank you so much for responding.

Yes it is a Dell E6500 which i am trying to image at work. I am trying to get the company I work for to switch imaging methods. I use this at my home lab and it works great. I WAS using AIK PE 2.0 however no matter what .inf drivers I would inject no dice. I asssumed this was because the laptop is running Windows 7? So once I downloaded and installed 3.0 (windows 7) version I was able to get an IP address from our DHCP server. Yes this is a recovery partition that PE keeps booting into VS the OS partition. Is there a way to stop that? Please forward me ideas because I have found NOTHING searching the net. Thanks. I will not be able to attempt the image capture again until Monday when I am back in work.

I can finally boot into winpe and get an IP address, map a drive and capture what seems to be only the minint and recovery folders. for some reason while in pe enviornment I change dir to c:\ all I see are both the above folders and that is it. when I use the same x86 winpe usb stick on my x64 VISTA machine I see all. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.