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Had not expected someone would use the x86 in an x64 Winpe. Should be fixed now, no version change this time.

Hi exta, I have added an alignment option inside the system menu (right-click on title bar or ALT+SPACE) If you click WinXP it will set these 4 Dword's to 0. A click on Win7 will delete them. Hope that's what you wanted.

@Atari800XL Your right, is more stable then expected. I focused the buttons in Beta 1. @dksvertix I think the size of edit boxes is more personal taste, i like it that way. The ISO file handling have to be defined inside WinNTSetup2_iso.cmd. WinNTSetup only passes the iso filename to the batch an wait for newly arrived CD/DVD drives.

Yes it's just luck that the tools are in the first MB's of neutral.cab Get more stuff from the PETools folder would easily go up to 700+ MB download and won't make much sense. With the web-setup of the adk things will get better.

Well a used pagefile can't be deleted without reboot and during setup the new system will overwrite it. Existing pagefile should not be problem but it's preferable to format the partition before install. Was just about 30 lines of code, Alpha 5 uploaded.

Well no problem, I want WinNTSetup as perfect as possible Just noticed that the normal setup.exe also creates a pagefile: winpepge.sys I try to add similar next week.

Well, not sure if installing windows 8 on an old system with only 512MB RAM, will be much fun. But you right I should avoid this. Guess memory check and creating pagefile on installation drive will be the right solution. Just need to figure out how to use the API No, that's not possible.

I could reproduce it in a VM with 256 MB RAM Well Microsoft is to blame: wimgapi causes an appcrash instead of a nice and clear error message. Interesting: To apply the new release preview wim's much more RAM is required (~80MB vs. 49MB Consumer Preview) You maybe could solve your problem with a pagefile.

Indeed strange. "I/O error status of 0xc000007f" sounds more that something on your system is broken (RAM, DISK or even some system file)

I tried the release preview, works alright for me. Alpha 4 has no other changes. What version had this error the 2.2 or the 2.3 alpha ?

Thanks for the report. I have not loaded the release preview. Either the install.wim is corrupted or the MS guys changed their WIM format again. maybe alpha 4 can handle it: WinNTSetup2.3 alpha4

@Homes32 Thanks, looks much better now. Added more command line options, see: GetWaikTools -? Already done.

That's great work Thanks! I have integrated your code, cURL.exe is no longer needed but can be copied next to the tool, to be used. @Chris Thanks for the report, should be fixed now.

Thanks Homes32, it seems to work, but I only receive the first 8KB of Neutral.cab. And then get: "This handle value has been terminated."

Yes the version form click-click's link

Thanks guy, good to hear it works! Well it would properly be possible, but would need an CDFS expert to know how much form the beginning of the ISO is needed. If one of these ISO-tools receive the absolute/relative offset and filesize it could be passed to cURL.

Done. Hmm, I don't think that a 650 KB exe is big, but seriously your right the actual download is not more than that: curl -N -r 129740800-136032256 http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/E/9/8E9BBC64-E6F8-457C-9B8D-F6C9A16E6D6A/KB3AIK_EN.iso -o"Neutral.cab" 129740800 - 136032256 is the begin and end offset to download, easily to get with an good HexEditor The 500+ lines au3 code is used to decompress the broken cab file, rename and sort the files according their architecture. To avoid corrupt downloads, all files are hashed in the end. Should work now in WinXP, too

Good you had backups. For me XDEL works as assumed without parameter it shows the help screen. Using /? is also logical, but your right it's unexpected.

W2k3_SETUPLDR_SP2_to_SP1.xdelta3Most of us don't really need/use the WAIK to build our custom WinPE's. So there were always a problem to get the few tools like wimgapi, imagex or the WIM filter drivers. Attempts were made to use httpdisk to download files from inside the WAIK iso, but it was not a good solution as you still need to load hundreds of MB and it requires to install an unsigned driver. You even had to set your x64 Windows in testmode ... But now we came with a good solution: Our tool uses cURL winhttp functions provided by Homes32 to download only the needed bytes for the hugh WAIK ISO's. There is no need for admin rights and you only need to download 4-6 MB per choosen WAIK. For command line: GetWaikTools -? W2k3_SETUPLDR_SP2_to_SP1.xdelta3 GetWaikTools.zip

Ha, ha I know what you mean. Yeah sometimes a project make a lot of fun while doing it, but someday one noticed there nothing more to improve. Thanks for the feedback That's great news. Finally a good way to remove a windows installation without formating and XDEL is also pretty fast Thanks

Hi Nuno, interesting work. But what's the sense of it? I don't really get it It doesn't seems to handle hard links nor does compression works. So it seems it's more or less at the same state as 7Zip. Without compression boot time and RAM usage increase extremely ... But even bigger problems: It seems one have to be a member of the reboot.pro forum to even download it. And if I want to include it in my public projects, I would need to support it on this website? Also every Windows 7 (and later) systems do include the WimGAPI libray that allow handle WIM files at ease.

A bit late, but here are 2 new imdisk installer that works (silently) in all WinPE. Also linking to new Alpha version, as there won't be any new version in the near future ... This version has a lot of rewritten code and was not tested fully. If someone noticed bugs or even mange to crash it, please report.

Sadly Vista is very limited in offline servicing. The only way to change the drive letter of vista installations would be to use the normal setup.exe. And creating a new sysprep image.

This option is not supported for Vista installations, but for Windows 7 and later it should be avalible. I'll take a look at it. Yes all versions of WinPE are supported. This seem to be a problem of the imdisk installer. You could add crtdll.dll from an x86 Windows 7 in the same folder as imdiskinst.exe or unpack it with 7zip and run install.cmd manually. Seems Olaf has ruined the silent install anyway with that msgbox pop up. I'll make 2 new install packages to fix this and also add support for vanilla x64 Winpe. All Windows 7 versions would support VHD booting, but it's a license restriction. During logon there is a check made for Kernel-NativeVHDBoot, think through SLGetWindowsInformationDWORD. You would get an error and stuck on logon screen, if you use a lower edition than Ultimate. I proplery could fix that , but some people would have a problem with this.

Thanks for the infos. Indeed Winntsetup doesn't use language.ini it only get information form the image index xml you posted. It actually don't touch any language settings, besides setting the received language in the BCD store. Well i tried a few different language packs on my german install.wim file and had no problem. I have no idea's what could be the cause here ... That could explain it =) hmm maybe, thought that's actually what I did with WinNTSetup very often with no problem