crowe80

I believe I have this all figured out now. Thanks!

Actually you can disregard #1 issue. We are going to just push it through Group Policy and not worry about it but my second issue is still occuring. I'm using WinPE 3.0.

I have a two part question, both are separate issues. 1. I saw in Iceman's instructions that you can modify a background image in WinPE. So I have the image mounted and I replace the winpe.bmp with my background image that we will just call "myimage.bmp". So i went out to C:\winpe_x86\mount\windows\ and I replaced winpe.bmp with myimage.bmp. I then unmounted the image and made an iso file and burned it to a disk. I have an image already created out on the network share. I go out and get it from my new WinPE disk but the background I changed this to is not there. It still defaults to the winpe.bmp background. What am I doing wrong? I can provide more details if you need them. 2. I also created the script for cleaning up a single partition. I have this text file saved out on the network share where my image is and I run the diskpart /s singlepartition.txt command after I have connected to my share through Winpe but it can't find the script. Where exactly should I save the script file? Also, I have ran this manually and it shows I only have disk 0 so I run through the commands to clean that but it seems like after I image at the windows boot manager it adds another option to select windows 7. So I may have 2 or 3 options to highlight Windows 7 and click ok but they all take me to the same image but it's saying it's only on one partition. So I'm not sure why that keeps adding windows 7 as an option each time I image. Any help is appreciated, I'm all mixed up right now

The only issue I have with this is that sometimes there are certain software that might need to be loaded on a PC that is already on the floor being used and this software will need a certain drive mapped for it to work. This drive will need mapped for anyone who uses the pc. So before I would just load it and map the drive, copy my profile over and delete the profiles that are already on the PC (we don't save anything locally where I work). So the next time they log in or any new users log in that drive is mapped. Now with Windows 7 it seems that sysprep is not as convenient in these circumstances. I work at a hospital so we have many nurses on one device throughout the day and night. But if it can't be done it can't be done.

So I'm in the process of building a Windows 7 image for our company that I can save out to a share on the network to use to deploy to multiple PC's. I have my Windows 7 PC set up just the way I want it but I need to copy my profile over so some of the settings are set up for anyone who logs in such as drive mappings, printers, etc. So I know there is the whole issue of c0pying profiles over and it being disabled. So I used the Windows Enabler to help me copy my profile over. That worked great up to the point that I log in with a test account to test it and when I log in now it says I'm logged in with a temporary profile and it will not save anything once I log off. I've tried a reboot and all that but it's still happening. Is there something else I have to do when I copy my profile over to prevent this. I want users to be able to log in and save files and add icons to the desktop that they need. Thanks!

One more thing I'm noticing and then I think I can figure some of this out. When I go to deploy this image from the network share and I run through all my commands and it boots up the image is fine but for some reason everytime I boot it has the black screen and it wants me to choose an operating system and Windows 7 is listed twice. I would like to be able to just boot and not choose anything and it just go straight to the login screen. Currently this is how I set it up to deploy from the network share: Put WinPE disc in to boot to it in the CMD window I run DISKPART LIST DISK (dIsk 0 is all that comes up which is fine, I want to partition just a single drive) SELECT DISK 0 CLEAN CREATE PART PRI SELECT PART 1 ACTIVE ASSIGN LETTER=C: FORMAT FS=NTFS LABEL="CDRIVE" QUICK EXIT Then I run: NET USE M: \\myserver name\my shared folder Then I type: IMAGEX /APPLY M:\C_image.wim "Drive C" C: Then: BCDBOOT C:\WINDOWS Then I reboot

Ok so I'm probably going to have a lot of questions starting out here, but I have my image out on a shared network and I can get to it and put an image on a PC now. My next question is, say I need to add a new LAN driver or some kind of script to my windows PE disc because there was an update. What is the easiest way to work with what I currently have on my winPE disc? What do I need to do in the deployment tools to break my disc back down to add updates and then mount it again without starting completely over from scratch? Thanks in advance, this forum has been awesome so far with your help!! The documentation I have is not real clear at times.

In case anyone else needs help with this and looks through these forums in the future. Switching to a PC that had Windows7 on it to create my winpe disc from WAIK seemed to fix the networking issue. However I did run into an issue when trying to install the driver for the 8200 which is the PC I wanted to capture the image from. On the XP PC when I would run this command it loaded it fine (or at least said it was successful) Dism /image:c:\winpe_x86\mount\ /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\driver\8200Lan\e1c62x64.inf I only had the .inf file in that folder nothing else.But on the Windows7 PC I had this saved in the same spot and it kept saying it could not find the folder so I copied over the whole folder that had the .sys files and everything in it for this LAN driver and just ran this command instead: Dism /image:c:\winpe_x86\mount\ /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\driver /recurse It found the files and loaded them and then it worked. But even running this last command with just the .inf file in the 8200Lan folder it would not find it. So I had to have the whole package of files for that driver in the folder for Windows 7 to say it was successful. But other than that I got an image copied to my network share. Thanks!!!!

I have not tried creating the WinPE from a Windows 7 PC. I will however try this step next and let you know if it works or not. Thanks!

I do work in a DHCP environment. Here are the steps I performed and please excuse my ignorance I'm sure I"m just not doing this correctly. Like I posted before I have a shared PC on our network that is an HP7100 that runs Windows XP. This is where I want to save my images to. So for now I have WAIK installed on the 7100 XP machine. I'm doing all my command line things within this tool. I have an HP 8200Elite that I have Windows 7 on and I want to capture this image and save it out on the 7100 XP machine that is shared out. So back on the XP machine while creating my WinPE disc I get to the point that I need to add the 8200 Lan Driver to the boot disc because currently if I boot up to WinPE I don't get any IP address when doing IP config nor can I ping the shared PC by name or IP from the Win7 PC. I have the 8200 Elite LAN driver saved on the XP machine and the Windows 7 PC at: C:\Driver\8200Lan\e1c62x64.inf So with that being said here is the command I use: Dism /image:c:\winpe_x86\mount\ /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\driver\8200Lan\e1c62x64.inf then Dism /image:c:\winpe_x86\mount\ /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\driver /recurse From this point I then commit to the changes, export the WIM to remove space held by files no longer in use, Copy the updated WIM to ISO folder and create the ISO image. I put the Disc that I burn the ISO image to into the 8200 and it boots up like it should but I'm still not getting and IP after doing IP config and when I try to do the net use command by the PC name or IP I still get an error saying it cannot be reached. system Error 1231 has occurred. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

I am trying to copy my Windows 7 image of an HP 8200 Elite onto our network on a shared device which is an HP7100. I believe I installed the LAN driver correctly (maybe not??) for the 8200 onto the PE boot disc. Do I also need to copy the HP 7100 LAN driver that is on the network?

Does anyone have any suggestions on good training material for learning how to use WinPE and saving and deploying images from a shared drive? I have a book for that I'm reading through for the 70-680 exam but some of the info is wrong I've found. It's been ok and a little helpful but just wondering if there is some good material out there for a beginner. Thanks!

I have not done that. I'm sure that could be the main cause. I'm still learning all this and was not aware I had to do that. I will give it a try, thanks!

I'm fairly new to learning how to image Windows 7 images using WinPE. I work at a business where we are currently on XP and I use a combination of Ghost and UIU to create our images. We will soon be going to Windows 7 and I'm learning how to save images out on a share so anyone in our IT department can go out and grab an image depending on what device they are imaging. I have created my WinPE boot disc and I have the image ready to copy over to my share but when I use the net use \\computer name\folder it keeps saying the network location cannot be found. I'm unable to ping the pc from WinPE as well. Here is my setup. I just have a desktop PC with Windows XP that has an external hard drive hooked to and it's shared out and called "images". This is where my current XP images are as well so I know it's shared out because everyone can get to those fine using Ghost. So anyways, I have the XP PC with external hard drive shared out and named images. Now I have another PC that I want to install Windows 7 on and the .wim file is already saved on the external hard drive of the XP machine. But like I said, when I use the net use command it's not finding the PC on the network. The firewall is off on the XP machine and I can ping it from any other computer on our network. Is there something I need to configure within WinPE to get it to see the XP machine on my network? Using the net use command and IP address of the XP machine does not work either. Seems like I'm missing a step to get the WinPE disc to see computers on my network. Any help would be appreciated!!!