IcemanND

With XP you can't do it automatically via setup. You have to do it from a Windows PE environment (Windows PE or BartPE, or equivalent) then you can create and format the partitions then start the OS install.

From the looks of the SMART HDD report, and the symptoms you have of slowness I would go out on a limb and say your hard drive is failing.

no need to double posst.

That will not work if he is redirecting the doc and settings folder, the partition it is being pllaced on has to be formatted before setup tries to create the directory. If you are not redirecting any of the system folders then your method will work fine.

The simple answer is you can't format more than one partition. If you want to create and format more than one partition before installing XP you have to do it from a PreInstallation environment like WIndows PE or BartPE.

the model number is normally stamped on the same lable as the serial number.

make a cmd file with the ping command in it, add a pause if you want to see the results when it finished. ping 222.222.222.222 pause

Try installing the video drivers for the machine you are having problems with. You may also be able to use a third party utility to set the resolution.

Can you post your code, then we could try it and see what else may be going on?

My guess would be that something is left behind from the build on the lovely centrino 2 t400. The universal image i had that I could deploy on any box I could get my hands on puked on any of the centrino 2 processor systems i tried it on. Seems those machines had to have a certain HAL installed in order to start up. I also know that Lenovo in their infinite wisdom has been know to tie some of their drivers to a specific HAL, amongst other things.

From everything I have read the Split option cannot be run with the capture option. You could format your usb device as ntfs instead of fat32, and still make it bootable if that is what you are after.

If you are using Ghost you don't need to format the drive first. Ghost formats as it goes.

As I don't use nLite I'm not sure if you have other options there, bu tin the answer file you can specify a home page, from the ref.chm:

you need to add the scripting and hta packages to your winpe build. and for some specific thins used in vbscript you may find that you need to add the WMI and XML packages also.

you need to use the boot option when capturing: imagex /capture c:\winpe\winpe\mount c:\winpe\winpe_base.wim "WimPe modified" /boot /verify You could also add the compress option to further compress the wim file, by default fast compression is used. imagex /capture c:\winpe\winpe\mount c:\winpe\winpe_base.wim "WimPe modified" /boot /compress maximum /verify

I don't attach anything to the desk. I just use some form of a cable wrap to get them all into one or two bundles (depending upon what is on my desk) Usually works out to one for data one for power. But all of my desks have a hole in the top to drop the cables through so this just keep the mess neat on top of the desk, once through the hole after that it looks like spaghetti.

if you have to option to leave the mail on the server when you check with POP then yes, you could do what you want. Or if IMAP is an option you could set both clients up as IMAP.

dpends upon how you are checking mail, POP or IMAP

Const FOR_READING = 1 Const FOR_WRITING = 2 Const vbTextCompare = 1 ' essentatially case insensitve Const vbBinaryCompare = 0 ' case sensitve vbOldText = "I Love You" vbNewText = "HACK BY ME" strFileName = "C:\scripts\test.txt" strCheckForString = UCase("july") Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_READING) strContents = objTS.ReadAll objTS.Close NewText = Replace(strContents, vbOldText, vbNewText, 1, -1, vbTextCompare) Set objTS = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, FOR_WRITING) objTS.Write NewText objTS.Close

335,152

I had a similar problem and found that the Mcafee site advisor had been causing the problem.

I seem to recal that ghost 7.5 did not handle vista ntfs correctly you needed version 8.5 i believe or you had to use some switches.

You've got a space being returned from the asset tag. Try changing: ErrCode = objComputer.Rename(newComputerName) to this: ErrCode = objComputer.Rename(trim(newComputerName))

If you are replacing the motherboard with the same motherboard (say a warranty replacement scenario) no you do not need to reload or repair the OS. Depending upon the onboard components you may eventually run into WGA issues. If the motherboard has a TPM on it and you are using bitlocker in Vista you will also need the bitlocker recovery code to authorize the changes.

the only difference between the modified script you already have and this one is that the scripting guys are using a username and password in the rename call. That should only be required if the machine is already part of a domain. One other thing to check is to make sure there is no space padding in the results of the SMBIOSAssetTag call. Try this as a test manully on a machine: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_SystemEnclosure", "WQL", _ wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly) For Each objItem In colItems newComputerName = objItem.SMBIOSAssetTag Next msgbox "Asset Tag:" & newComputerName & "END" Set colComputers = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") For Each objComputer in colComputers MsgBox "About to rename computer to: " & newComputername ErrCode = objComputer.Rename(newComputerName) If ErrCode = 0 Then MsgBox "Computer renamed correctly." Else MsgBox "Changing computer name failed. Error code: " & ErrCode End If Next A message box should pop up with "Asset tag:<assettag>END