IcemanND

Have you looked at Process Explorer formaerly from Sysinternals, now from Microsoft.

check out the Scripting Guy's scripts on Microsofts technet site. they'll likely have what you want or the pieces to put it together.

You don't want do use both the sysprep OEMDriverspath setting and vernalex's driver scanner. Just use the driver scanner. Might not solve the problem but it may help, I don't recall any more which takes precedence in that case but I think the sysprep one overwrites the registry key. And some drivers you will just be stuck with the window to accept the unsigned driver, there is a utility the watches for the driver signing window and clicks the button for you that was written in autoit.

or look at the stickies in the Windows PE forum. http://www.msfn.org/board/GUIDE-Creating-W...ym-t101383.html has some of the information you are after in the guide.

yes, you can configure and setup winpe2 to boot from hard drive.

He's got a girl cooking dinner for him and people think he's going to be here looking for birthday wishes?! I hope he has more of a life than that. Happy birthday zxian! Don't eat too much.

F10 gets into the BIOS on the 1750 and most compaqs before the HP buyout for that matter. I do not recall that there is an actual keystroke to bring up a boot menu on it.

You can partition the drive from Windows PE or BartPE using diskpart or other methods and then format the partitions and then run winnt32, or copy the i386 folder to the hard drive first and then run winnt32.

yes, they have to be formatted first

Yes they can be moved to other drives, but those drives have to be formatted before installation which cannot be done through the normal windows xp setup. You can add lines to your winnt.sif file to place the folders on the desired volumes. Look harder http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19 [GuiUnattended] ProfilesDir="e:\" [unattended] ProgramFilesDir="D:\My Program Files"

most people who want to cover multiple HALs seem to want to cover all 7 XP HALs with one image. If you build you image on a UP ACPI HAL and deploy to UP or MP ACPI HAL systems you should be fine. If you build on a MP system you will need to use the sysprep option to downgrade the HAL to UP as downgrading is not automatic. I'm curious as to why your rep told you that you could not use the WAIK.

I ran it against the MSD 8021 pack and had no issues except for the two missing lines that my original script pulled that Yzowl's did not. Having played with ATI drivers in the past and trying to pull info from their INFs I would have to agree with Yzowl that it is something in their INF, you might want to take a look and see if there is something strangely formattted about those INFs, "C:\drivers\shared\video\ati_catalyst_6-1 1_xp-2k_dd_37616\$OUTDIR\CX_38857.inf for instance.

MOVED.

Actually that is not technically correct. You can update the HAL to another compatible HAL. You can force the change between non-compatible HAL's as the script above does but it is not supported by Microsoft.

Never too old to learn. Definitely not a script a beginner is going to figure out. Except you missed two. PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_1184=C:\D\M\SIS2\SISRAID4.inf PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_1185=C:\D\M\SIS2\SISRAID4.inf

You can read the cd key in plain text in the answer file, you might be able to edit it in notepwad but it probably requires a hex editor. Or I believe you can open it in the office admin kit and change it and save as a new answer file.

the echo. puts the blank line, your other option would be to put if exist c:\maplist.txt del c:\maplist.txt which would delete the file so there would be nothing to append to.

Sorry, forgot to put the path to maplist.txt in. change echo.>maplist.txt to echo.>c:\maplist.txt

@echo off echo.>maplist.txt for /f "delims=*" %%f in ('dir /s /a /b "c:\users\user1\documents\backup files\halo\halo ce maps\"') do echo %%~nf >> c:\maplist.txt exit

If you have it in a batch file double up the % signs %%f And with the space in the path you need this: for /f "delims=*" %f in ('dir /s /a /b "c:\users\user1\documents\backup files\halo\halo ce maps\"') do echo %~nf >> c:\maplist.txt

for /f %f in ('dir /s /a /b c:\winpe') do echo %~nf will do it, keep in mind it will also give you the directories, replace c:\winpe with the directory you want the list from. If you want the results in a file add >>filename.txt to the end of the line.

Sysprep could solve your issue but it is really intended for preparing a system for imaging to other systems. Check these out you may find what you are looking for: http://www.msfn.org/board/Drivers-Instalat...hod-t70209.html http://www.msfn.org/board/DriverForge-v412...er-t110783.html

Try enclosing the user name in quotes. Space is a delimiter for switches so it sees you last name as a new switch and does know what it is.

What do you mean by "if exist xxxx" if the name already exists on the network? or if it is in the text file? If it is that it is on the network this will only work if all the machines are on, otherwise you won;t be able to know if MachineNameX exists. It would be better if you have a DHCP server that you can query against to get the registered machine name and rename it according to that, or associate something with the machine to the machine name like a serial number that could be looked up with WMI.

install_drivers.cmd c:\MyDrivers