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Well after further investigation into this problem as i had it again i realised that when you have done some work in windows PE (created partitions and then assigned drive letters etc) and shut the pc down then come to use windows PE again the drive letters get reset so if you created a system partition and gave it letter S, it would be the first available letter the next time you use windows PE and this was my problem. I remember reading this somewhere in a tutorial that windows PE does this but it never clicked in my mind until now. A bit daft really. Thanks for the reply though

WHEN are you inserting the USB device? Normally a PE will autodetect devices already connected at boot time AND NOT devices connected after boot. jaclaz Thanks for the reply. I had been inserting it into the pc before i turned it on. I created a new PE disc and formatted my flash drive and it seems to be working fine now thanks.

Thanks for the reply. The PC was built by myself and is a little old now but it runs windows 7 fine (im just using it to test the whole unattended installs on it etc). My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8I848P775-G and its located here: My link if this helps. Im booting the windows PE from CD and its the x86 version. Ive also tried all the 4 USB ports on the back of the motherboard to no avail and i can't figure out for the life of me whats wrong with it, it just doesn't detect my USB flash drive or my external USB hard drive.

Hi Guys, Ive just created my windows PE disc from the microsoft tutorial and im trying to capture an image of windows 7 using imageX which will save the image to my flash drive but it can't seem to find either my USB flash drive or my USB external hard drive. Anyone got any ideas?

Hi Everyone Im hoping someone can help me here. Ive been following the windows 7 OPK videos from the microsoft partner network on how to deploy windows 7 and im a bit unsure on a few things. Im completely confused about how to create the distribution share, where i get the out-of-box drivers from (and if i actually need them for components such as an Nvidia GFX card and onboard sound) and the $OEM$ folder. I have had a look on the microsoft website about this and it doesnt really give me an insight to this neither the windows 7 OPK videos. I have tried to followed the tutorial to create a test of deploying all this and would like to use the ficticious brand fabrikam. Im unsure if i have all the correct files in the correct folders files such as: * backgrounddefault.jpg * fabrikam.jpg * fabrikam_eula.rtf * offer1.bmp * oobe.xml * usertile.bmp I have all these files in the following directory on my hard drive which is: C:\Users\Karl\Desktop\Distribution Share\$OEM$ Folders\$1\Windows\System32\oobe I would be very greatful if someone could help me with this as im at a complete loss now Thanks in advance