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Hi click-click, that properly the silly hybrid boot of Windows 8. You can disable it as described here: http://www.trickday.com/2012/08/how-to-disable-fast-start-in-windows-8/ Next version will disable it, if it found more windows version on the system.

@ laddanator Good idea, will add an option for custom $OEM$ folder to "Ready?" page.

Hi AQM, that interesting, Lancelot also reported me such a boot problem and I always thought it would be BIOS related. But if you say that NT6 bootcode / loader works, than there is some hope to fix it. Just the problem, I've nothing to reproduce it. Do you have anymore informations like: - partition alignment - partition starting offset (maybe above 160 GB ?) - does real xp setup work in this partition

Yes, I never run into problems doing it that way. But personally I prefer post setup updates via runonce.

Yeah, that the right integration, but don't thing it fix your driver problem.

Thanks for beta 4. Works great! You should add SupportedOS Id for Windows 8 to StartIsBack_setup.exe and StartIsBackCfg.exe

Hmm, either the right driver is not integrated or not loaded for some reason. Are you sure you have the correct driver for the controller? Well these packs aren't legal at all and don't integrate the way thought by MS. It's up to you if you trust the the authors of these packs and use them. WinNTSetup can't fully handle this integration and since no time, properly never will.

@alacran Thanks, I'll fix string 014 in next version. 166 is only thought for win7, the usbboot checkbox has no effect on win8 installs. @cy06 Great, thanks for translating @laddanator At what state of setup does the BSoD occurs (TXTMODE or GUIMODE) ? Does it work if you boot it from CD/DVD? Actually there should be no problem with already slipstreamed Driver Packs, but there could be a version conflict with a newer or older driver.

@alacran thanks for translation I've found the problem with VHD creation strings, should be fixed in 2.3.1.2. @Atari800XL absolutely no problem, have found quite some more with Word 2007 new language.ini is in previous link and built in 2.3.1.2

Hi alacran, just change this language.ini as you like and put in the same folder. 2.3.1.1 is now available with better VHD label

Hi alacran, Win7 VHD is just the drive label and can be changed without problem whenever the VHD is mounted. But your right is a bit confusing now with Windows 8. Guess the best is if I change the label to the user selected filename

Well, the old copy used SHFileOperation, practically windows default for every file copy. Somehow it's kinda slow, especially for copying many files. Also it did not give me any infos for the progress bar, therefor unnecessary disk access was needed. So i had to write my own tool, that just populate a LinkedList with all files/folders and than starts coping. With fully cached files the copying is twice as fast for many files and in default (uncached) case it still should be noticeable faster. @cy06 You'r welcome

Update: Version 2.3.1.0 - added "Cancel Button" - XP Setup now faster, due to new file copy engine - added tweak to avoid silly Windows 8 first logon animation - fixed vhd creation (crash on Chinese Windows 8) - fixed driver integration with trailing back slash - slightly adjusted active primary detecting

Yes only this missing file was cause all trouble I wonder about that, too.Well, only Microsoft knows the reason

Yes, this would require quite some modifications. But the download for these files would not be smaller than 600 MB, just for x86 files. There is still the idea to reverse compression with tiny delta patches, which could reduce required download very much. But the legal situation is unclear

Hi Scampy82, I found it! Your WinPE is missing ntmarta.dll in \Windows\system32 folder Also your WinPE don't show hidden and supper hidden files.

Yes, that could help. Please sent me details via PM.

Yes, it is designed to work under WinPE. No idea yet, at least an error message should be displayed, if there is any problem with bootmgr or Boot\*.* files creation. actually not, bootmgr should be created on the partition you selected. It's difficult to say, which disk is the "wanted" boot disk as the program is mostly use from WinPE or Portable Windows.Also as you noticed Windows detects different between IDE, SATA, USB, ... I'll try to improve it.

Yes, forgot to mention that

hmm, strange either Chinese ANSI and OEM codepage can have different amount of characters or Stringlen() eats some Please try v 2.3.0.2

Thanks, it seem this only occurs with some unicode languages. It's properly a bug in the text formating. I'll download the 90 days win8 ZH-CN trail version and take a look at it.

That's too much informations. The VHD creation is just a wrapper for windows' diskpart.exe. Anyway there should be some error printed in the black window. Also WinNTSetup should give back the error code and it's description.

Hi Scampy82, currently it's not possible, but I add a Cancel Button in the next version.

hmm, there should be success or failed message for every *.inf file found in L:\ and it's subfolders. like this: EDIT: Okay there is a bug, the trailing \ cause the trouble

No adding drivers for Win7 and later makes use of dism /add-driver ... and for XP files are copyied to C:\DRV and all sub dirs of it are added to registry. If correctly added to driver store by dism your display driver should be installed during setup. Winntsetup.log is created in the new Windows dir. It should log if a driver is added or if an error occured.