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IcemanND

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  1. Depends upon the changes made to the hardware from previous models. The latest new systems we deployed, the changes to the image took about a 16 hours to complete and test. Normally it takes about 4-8 but the latest processors and BIOS required a certain HAL to be installed to boot correctly. But times will vary depending upon what you have to update. My images are only updated for hardware, software and updates are handled via SMS, WSUS, or scripted installs depending upon the system final config.
  2. Have you tried going into the BIOS and changing the SATA controller to Compatibility mode? Should allow you to install XP without adding anything.
  3. If you have added the appropriate network drivers to your PE boot image, the only thing you need is for wpeinit to run which it should already be as it is run by default.
  4. Works in 32-bit vista, tested in ultimate and enterprise, does not work in 64-bit.
  5. you specify your answer file with the /unattend:<answer file> switch. To get the rest of the switches you can type winnt32 /?
  6. Or there is always the DriverPacks and DriverForge
  7. The desktop.ini files will control how say the "My documents" folder name is displayed when looking at it when logged in as a different user. For example, if I log into my computer as Nobody and look at the profile of IcemanND the "My Documents" folder is displayed as "IcemanND's Documents" if I delete the desktop.ini file from this documents folder and look again it is now displayed as "My Documents". If I edit the desktop.ini file and change the value of the owner=IcemanND to owner=DNnamecI the "IcemanND's Documents" changes to "DNnamecI's Documents" How that particular file is created and what get's put in it by default seems to be a mystery.
  8. you want to put in your serial, use the answer file. You want to activation crack, don't ask about it here again.
  9. If you don't want to let the tool do it it also shows you all the steps it will take and you can do them manually instead.
  10. MOVED Check out WinBuilder - http://winbuilder.net/
  11. You could try Dial-a-Fix to reset the Automatic Updates service.
  12. Why not just let the Net Use command collect the password? Granted it is not the prettiest, but it doesn't echo anything to the screen. net use n: \\myserver\mystorage /user:domain\user Then it asks for the password for the specified user to connect with.
  13. Please don't post the same question to multiple forums. Move to Windows PE forum. In regards to your problem the limitation to the size of the boot.wim is the amount of available memory in the machine you are booting. The entire Boot.wim is loaded into memory, so you would need at least 900mb of memory, and if that wim is compressed even more.
  14. If your processor will not support 64-bit nothing else is going to make any difference in getting 64-bit on your system.
  15. Those machines require a certain HAL in order to boot, it's not a problem when doing an unattended install, but it is when trying to deploy an image. You have two options, create an image for those machines with the new processor. Or force the machine to boot with the correct HALL using the boot.ini switches. Then replace the inastalled HAL with the correct one. From http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb963892.aspx
  16. Are both machines (yours without the problem, and the problem machine) in the same OU and receiving the same group policies? If not you are comparing apples to oranges. If the user lets the machine sit after logging in does it eventually finish loading his profile? Do you redirect any folders to network locations, such as My documents? There are a number of things that can cause issues like this.
  17. You can download and run the VMWare Processor check for 64-bit compatibility. It will tell you if the processor has the 64-bit extensions or not.
  18. If you followed my guide, all it does is great an image of a system you have built. It has nothing to do with making an image hardware independent. It is just a way to make a "ghost" image of a system so I can be deployed to another system compatible system.
  19. I can't say that I have ever tried to do such a thing. But you may be able to do it by either adding the everyone group or enabling or creating another guest account and giving that account permissions.
  20. you don't need "file and print sharing" turned on to use remote desktop. I have the server service disabled on my machines, which controls F&P sharing and remote desktop to them daily. More likely a firewall issue with either the port not being open or the scope not being set right.
  21. You forgot a question: How are you partitioning and formatting the destination drive? If you are using diskpart post your script/ steps you use with it.
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