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Here's a guide on creating a WIM image of XP. Pretty much the same steps as creating an image to use with Ghost or Acronis, just different tools. Once you have the image you should be able to push it out with WDS. [GUIDE] Creating WIM images of Windows XP for system deployment using Windows PE http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=674778

msconfig in XP will recognize the xp boot.ini stuff but not the boot configuration data file of pe2/vista. But BCDEDIT from PE2 will run in XP and can be scripted to modify the bootloader for xp/pe2

If you do an install with an xp cd and use F6 and a floppy with those drivers does it work? If not then what is needed is not in that driver set.

I can think of many easier ways to accomplish that. But yes you can boot windows xp and pe 20 from the same hard drive, you will need to change the windows installation path for one or the other since they both by default use c:\windows for their install. You could then use BCDEDIT to change the default boot os and then restart the machine and have it boot to the new default selection. Then at the end of the xp installation you would have to fix the boot configuration data file to dual boot again. see here for using bcdedit to create the boot config file for the dual boot: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=678507

Easy to do yes, savable yes, inexpensive maybe. You can try the eBay approach to find a matching screen, or you could try CHomPaq and see if they have a bezel, hinge and top available as parts to purchase. If you were to take it apart you should find part number like 123456-001 for each part you need to replace. You can check HP Replacement parts to see what is available http://h20141.www2.hp.com/hpparts/Country_Choice.asp

Depends upon how you prepped your image. If you use sysprep when you create your image you just need to add the appropriate SATA/RAID controller drivers to the MassStorage section of the Sysprep INF file and re-sysprerp the machine. If you don't use sysprep on your image then you need to preinstall the driver to your image, this does not always work. You can run the add new hardware wizard and do a manual install of the drivers even though the hardware is not there and many times this will work.

Unfortunately adding the drivers to the drivers path does not help with mass storage controllers required for boot up. The driver needs to have been added to the critical devices database in the registry. This is done by the MassStorage section of sysprep. It has been asked multiple times and as of yet I have not seen a way around re-syspreping the image.

Not a problem Joe Blog. Glad to help the i d 10 t's out whenever I can. Don't feel too bad about it I had a manager that did the same thing, more than once.

I have not used nero in a long time, but I believe there should be an option to burn an image to disc or something similar. That is what you want to use to burn the cd. Select that option browse to the ISO and then click burn.

rewrote and edited the post above. no errors with this one.

Please don't double post. If you put it in the wrong spot just ask to have it moved. Thanks. In regards to your problem it depends upon the application. Sometimes you can pipe the information to it via a command prompt, or you could maybe create a autoit script to launch the app and enter the data.

fdisk /mbr and fixmbr do not erase the boot record they attempt to repair it for their respective OS's

Haven't tried this from say bartpe or windows pe but how about a debug script that will wipe it. run Debug in cmd window, type the following: A MOV AX,330 MOV CX,1 MOV DX,80 MOV BX,3800 MOV ES,BX INT 13 INT 3 {ENTER};just press enter G Q modified code

why not run the vm in a window and have process monitor running in the vm and watch it there? seems like the easiest way to me. or run the VM full screen on a second monitor and have the process monitor on the first screen.

that new thread suggestion wasn't for your problem it was for Tripredacus. when you are walking through the guide are you using the cmd scripts in it or are you typing in all the commands manually? On page 7 step 13, where the winpe_x86.iso file is created, how are you burning this CD image to your CD? Its default location in my guide is c:\winpe_x86\ If you have virtual machine software, create a virtual machine with at least 384MB of memory, then set this CD ISO image file for the cd. and then boot the VM and boot form the cd and see what you get. You can get Virtual PC from Microsoft or VMWare Server from VMWare for free.

Just didn't account for spaces. @ECHO OFF FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN (TEST.TXT) DO ( call :get_char %%A ) pause goto :EOF :get_char set var=%* echo %var% if "%var:~-1%"=="_" ( echo IT'S AN UNDERSCORE ) else ( Echo not an underscore ) goto :EOF

Basically does the same thing that Yzowl does, but calls a "function" within the batch file instead of concatenating all those commands together and gives you an IF statement to check the last character. @ECHO OFF FOR /F "delims=" %%A IN (TEST.TXT) DO ( call :get_char %%A ) pause goto quit :get_char set var=%1 if "%var:~-1%"=="_" ( echo IT'S AN UNDERSCORE ) else ( Echo not an underscore ) goto quit :quit

:whine: But I want it now!!! :whine: sigh, in a perfect world it would all be available all at once. I gues this gives me time to convince the powers above to finally stand up a deployment server and maybe even turn on the ability to perform network booting.

Ok, guys, cool it. @JoeBlog - where did caldera come from??? If you follow the guide the first thing you would see would be the normal "press any key to boot from cd/dvd...." prompt, then the progress bar will appear as it loads. You should not have anything from caldera if you followed the guide and are writing the created ISO to a CD and booting from the cd. The last thing you should end up with is the default Vista background, looks like green and blue rays going up the screen, with a dos window open that rean winpeint and then dumps you to an X:\windows\system32 prompt. You don't need any boot disk. All you need to do is download the WAIK, link in the Guide. Everything you need to follow the guide is included in it. @Tripredacus - do a search for "hardware independent image" or "universal image" via google or here in the forums, it has been disused in multiple threads here different approaches to do what you are after. If you can't git it worked out start another thread over in the windows xp forum.

I have never had a problem with PS2 or USB keyboards. What all have you added to the CD? You might try starting with the base cd I describe in the guide, add you applications you want and then run them manually rather than automatically, it might be something you are loading that could be causing the issue.

@ kingspawn - Yes, in theory, though as of right now I know of no application that allows multicasting of WIM images. It is in the works as mentioned in the document for server 2008 and WDS (still in beta).

If you are doing this via the domain why not do it via a machine startup script instead of a login script?

I tried that one and it didn't work, ended up leaving it with the default that I had from sunrocket.

I had mine in 24 hours, but I switched online the day that Sunrocket died and did BYOD. Though I never did get any confirmation emails except that they billed me then.

Where is the vmconnect.vbs script running? on the local machine? If so it is trying to run mstsc.exe from the local machine and looking for the RDP file on the local machine. Try giving the UNC path to the RDP file and see what that does.