IcemanND

the only thing I have ever seen that will run automatically on boot into safe mode are the runonceex registry keys. anything else would have to be run manually.

That all depends upon what HAL is on the original machine and what HAL should be installed on the traget systems. Another possibility is that the mass storage drivers are incorrect. Sysprep can also take care of this.

I don't know about using WPI but it's easy enough to do with vbscript. Does the printer driver exist in the default windows printer drivers or does it need to be added?

@Yzowl - Actually it will stop once the if statement is true. Now if you were going to do this for a number of files or unknown files this would not be a good solution. But then if I was doing I'd probably use a vbscript and WMI. Using setlocal depands upon the configuration of your system. some of my systems need it some don't depending upon how I've got it configured.

@echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion for %%J in (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) do ( set tags=%%J:\boot.ini %%J:\ntldr for %%I in (!tags!) do ( if exist "%%I" ( set %%~nI=%%J Set %%~nIz=%%~zI ) ) if "!boot!" NEQ "" iF "!ntldr!" NEQ "" goto finished ) :finished echo. echo. echo ntldr location is %ntldr% echo boot.ini location is %boot% echo. echo Size of ntldr is %ntldrz% echo Size of boot.ini is %bootz%

it changes the way tah the set what's in the parenthesies is handled. open a cmd window and type 'for /?' for more details

for /f %i in ('dir /a /b /s *.abc') do echo %i

I have found no ther way around it. Its an AutoUt scipt I wrote to do just what you are doing. If you wan to see the source I did not password protect it, you can use the AutoIt utilities to convert it back to an Au3 script from the EXE.

can't help you with getting back into the computer. I think you may be hosed there. But for the next time I can save you some clicking. Launch the attach compiled autoit script and it will watch for those pop up messages and click ok, continue, etc for you while the mass storage section is being created. continue.exe

Two ways you could do it. Depends upon how dynamic you want this to be for future changes. <% myArray=Split(CT,",") For i=LBound(myArray) to UBound(myArray) AddValues = AddValue + ",'" + Response.Write myArray(i) + "'" Next set Command1 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command") Command1.ActiveConnection = MM_conn2_STRING Command1.CommandText = "INSERT INTO CustomerTypes (CustomerNumber, CustomerType) VALUES (" + Replace(Command1__CN, "'", "''")" + AddValues +") " Command1.CommandType = 1 Command1.CommandTimeout = 0 Command1.Prepared = true Command1.Execute() %> or <% myArray=Split(CT,",") set Command1 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command") Command1.ActiveConnection = MM_conn2_STRING Command1.CommandText = "INSERT INTO CustomerTypes (CustomerNumber, CustomerType) VALUES (" + Replace(Command1__CN, "'", "''")" + ",'" +myArray(0) + "','" + myArray(1) +"') " Command1.CommandType = 1 Command1.CommandTimeout = 0 Command1.Prepared = true Command1.Execute() %> The first will let you add as many checkboxes as you like without have to keep adding myArray(x) to the end of the update query. Note: I may have missed a quote here or there.

If the advertisement that comes up at the top of the unnatended forum page is one of those lovely graphic ones like the tigerdirect sweepstakes or circuit city, when you mouseover the menu on the left the menus appear under the advertisement. It does not do this in IE 6, just firefox 1.5.06, but I had to continuosly refresh for 5 minutes before I got a non text ad in IE. Never noticed it before, maybe I've always gotten text ads when I visited the page to refresh my memory.

there are a few places you can get adapters to plug atx psu's into dell motherboards. I'm going to assume you verified that the output of the non dell PSU was different than the dell pus. Most of the dimensions I've dealt with were standard atx but the optiplex line was proprietary.

or post a spreadsheet with the affected fields still in it, delete and info you dont' want publicly seen.

Comcast in our area is $40 a month. I personally use SunRocket and since I got a new cable modem which doesn't overheat like my last one I have not had any problems with the service. Or at least no more problems than we have at work with the VOIP provided by AT&T. The occasional echo or pop on the line. Though the popping may be due to the fact that my wife keeps dropping the phone and recently a child threw it across the room.

sending survey question to customers, after extracting data afrom various databases

This is as close as I have ever seen any timeline for UA installs. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/13/

In my experience if you have your image built on a ACPI Uniprocessor system and deploy it to an ACPI Multiprocessor system in all of my tests it automatically adds the second processor and upgrade the HAL from ACPI Uni to ACPI Multi. So you may not need to change anything at all if your existing image has the right HAL. If it has ACPI (non uniprocessor) then you have to replace the HAL before booting or use something like the Universal Imaging Utility from Binary Research.

ghost won't solve his activation problem unless hes has a volume license key. Which one would hope he was using to build his base system and not the OEM or a retail cd.

How many versions do you have it set to keep? You can set it to keep a certain number of previous versions. My work has some systems set to one snapshot a day and 8 previous versions. On others they are snapped twice a day and i believe 12 versions.

turn on sticky keys, or as some have done hold down the shift key with your tongue

the next time you sell something on E-bay and they pay your paypal account send 25 bucks to msfn. Easy and simple.

First let's clarify. When exactly are you havig the reboot problem? At the end of capturing the image? are you using the -RB switch? -RB is automatic reboot. At the end of ghosting to the new machine? are you using the -RB switch? -RB is automatic reboot. During the first boot attempt into windows after ghosting to new machine? then see my previous post. There are a few ways to solve this, use a BartPE cd wih the idefix plugin, run sysprep and have it install the massstorage drivers before capturing the image.

One of two things most likely either the mass storage driver is not correct or the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) on the target machine is different and not compatible with the source system.

WolfX2 got me to type with my nose Used sticky keys to get the semi-colon, no need to taste my keyboard that way

actually you could end up in the same situation if you have virusscan runnng and are copying infected files. If you're a technician trying to fix someones computer you can run into this problem on a daily basis. I started using robocopy and set the retry on fail to a lower number than the default. Saved me a lot of headaches.