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<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> <Letter>C</Letter> <Label>BitLock</Label> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Extend>true</Extend> <Active>false</Active> </ModifyPartition> Try to change this to: <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> <Letter>C</Letter> <Label>BitLock</Label> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Extend>false</Extend> <Active>false</Active> </ModifyPartition> Martin

Which method you'll ever use, the basic chapter should be "Creating an Answer file with WSIM". Content: 1. Build a very simple Autounattend.xml, with just the basic Settings like Language, Product Key, AutoLogon, OOBE. 2. How to prepare your drive with Autounattend.xml 3. Use this file from Stick or FD with the original Vista-DVD. Could look like here. It's in German but the gifs are English. I think you can get an idea what I'm talking about. Martin

Windows creates the identities allways new with a new installation. So what you need to do the wohle OE job unattended is a little more complicated: 1. You need to save all your settings from the old running systems. Means backing up the Data from Documents and Settings\User\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{Identity No}\Microsoft\Outlook Express And the Reg-Keys HCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager\Account and HCU\Software\Identities\{Identityno}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\ 2. At the end of unattended installation run a script, which is figuring out the name of the Folder {Identity No} and use this name to Replace the {Identityno} part in the exported regfiles. 3. Now you can import the reg-files and your e-mail backup (still done by the script) If you've several user on your computer you need to do that for all Users. I don't use OE so I don't have such a script here to post. Could be that there is some software around doing the whole job. Martin

If you want to import the Account settings the Reg-Key is: HKCU\Software\Microsoft Internet Account Manager\Accounts Martin

Thanks a lof for your endeavors paxamime! Martin

The only two imagex options to use /compress with, are /capture and /export. Capture does not make sense in your case. You will use it to pack a Master installation into an image. /export is to "copy" a subimage from one .wim file to an other. /compress uses maximum, fast, none imagex /export D:\VistaDVD\sources\install.wim 1 D:\MyImages\destination.wim /compress maximum WSIM help says you would need to run /export from WinPE. And source and destination must use the same compress setting. Haven't tried out yet and don't know how to figure out the compress level of an image you didn't captured by yourself. So you would need to try n error. Martin

It will include a DVD hopefully. Martin

To delete files and folders offline from Vista Image, you have to press SHIFT+DEL. Don't forget to "save" your changes by using the /commit option of imagex imagex /unmount /commit D:\My_mount_Dir\ Martin

If you've a Floppy you can download and use Windows XP Startup Disks which you can download from Microsoft If you do not have any drive, you can boot from Network, if BIOS supporting this option. If this is not supported eather, than I would not know how to install anything... Martin

I've written a German HowTo, how to integrate inf based drivers to a Vista Image. You'll find it here. If there would be enough requests, I would translate it to English. Martin

Hello Spooky, I've UAC set to active and protected mode is set to active eather but IE Status bar shows Protected Mode Inactive. So I don't know, if Protected Mode is on, like shown under Security Settings or if it's off like Statusbar shows... Reading your post, I was thinking if Statusbar might show the wrong status... This is under Vista RC1 (5600), German. Martin

Problem is solved partly. I'm still not able to integrate drivers into PE-Image and still don't know why. But I'm able to integrate drivers into install.wim now. I've had integrated the drivers into the wrong subimage. This Problem was caused by the confusing Setup Activity Log of Vista. I've taken the image number from there all the time which was 3 for Ultimate. But with ImageX you have to use Image number 4 for Ultimate Image. Why the hell MS is using diffrent numbers for the same Image??? It took me days to figure out BTW I'm lucky for the moment, cause the integration into install.wim is working for boot-critical and non-boot-critical devices. Martin

Well... driver certification is the one thing, funny log entries are the other. Here is an example of one of my many tries - please look at the diffrent path entries appearing there: [PnPUnattend.exe] Found key '1' 2006-10-25 22:17:18, Info [PnPUnattend.exe] Processing '1'... 2006-10-25 22:17:18, Info [PnPUnattend.exe] Path = '%ystemdrive\Drivers' 2006-10-25 22:17:18, Warning [PnPUnattend.exe] No credentials provided 2006-10-25 22:17:18, Info [PnPUnattend.exe] Searching for drivers at 'XèVystemdrive\Drivers'... 2006-10-25 22:17:18, Error [PnPUnattend.exe] Failed to find driver packages at '%Systemdrive%\Drivers' (Error code 0x3: Das System kann den angegebenen Pfad nicht finden. The last message means, System could not find the path specified! The path in unattend.xml is '%Systemdrive%\Drivers'. I realy don't know which path it was looking for!

That is right, Martin! And if I follow the link above it's no easy way of installing drivers unattended. Well... I've integrated drivers into a Windows PE-Image (boot.wim) and in the Vista-Installation (install.wim). The procedure to do this was much easier than I've thought before... but the drivers are not installed yet. Well it should be possible the way fizban has described above. But I've tried that yesterday and it wasn't working for me, too. For the moment I'm checking the setup logs. Have you allready done this? The whole driver installation part of unattended Vista is ... :angrym: me off for the moment. There are many questions and no answers... It seems to me that MS hasn't finished the driver part in the available BDDs... Martin

This Thread from MS TechNet should troubleshout your "problem" eather: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...17&PageID=0

Are you sure, that your Autounattend.xml file is executed? There is a switch you can use with setup.exe to force it using an Autounattend.xml... I've to look for it... You should may move the whole driver path section to auditSystem mode than. I'm testin with RC1 and BDD 2007 V3.3... but I don't think that this is causing the problem. And like I allready told you, I've not tested this procedure of driver installation yet. I'll try out now... Martin Why you're not using Autounattend.xml to wipe and format the disk? The switch is: setup.exe /unattend:C:\Autounattend.xml (or whereever the Autonunattend.xml is located)

If the Folder allready exists, than you don't need the <UseConfigurationSet>-Tag. Cause it will look for an $OEM$-Folder. You'll just need the Driver-Section and you have to adapt the path than: C:\Drivers Martin Edit: What kind of drivers you try to install? Are they all for Vista?

Hey, TIA... Should look like this: . . . <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet> </component> . . . <component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsWinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <DriverPaths> <PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="1" wcm:action="add"> <Path>%Systemdrive%\Drivers\Driver1</Path> </PathAndCredentials> <PathAndCredentials wcm:keyValue="2" wcm:action="add"> <Path>%Systemdrive%\Drivers\Driver2</Path> </PathAndCredentials> </DriverPaths> </component> This example requires an $OEM$-Folder like this: $OEM$\$1\Drivers\Driver1\ $OEM$\$1\Drivers\Driver2\ Can't guarantee that it will work, cause I've the feeling that the whole unattended Driver installation is not finished yet. I've problems for the moment getting image integrated drivers to work. But this is the way it supposed to work. I've tried out the $OEM$ copy procedure from USB-Stick. It was working so far. EDIT: If you wanna install the drivers from UNC-Path, than you don't need the $OEM$-Folders and you don't need the <UseConfigurationSet>-Tag. It should look like this than: <DriverPaths> <!-- First PathAndCredentials list item --> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1"> <Path>\\myFirstDriverPath\DriversFolder</Path> <Credentials> <Domain>MyDomain</Domain> <Username>MyUsername</Username> <Password>MyPassword</Password> </Credentials> </PathAndCredentials> <!-- Second PathAndCredentials list item --> <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="2"> <Path>C:\Drivers</Path> <Credentials> <Domain>MyComputerName</Domain> <Username>MyUsername</Username> <Password>MyPassword</Password> </Credentials> </PathAndCredentials> </DriverPaths> Martin

Hello! It's possible to use a $OEM$-Structure for Vista unattended Setup. I don't know if you're using WSIM, if not I highly recommand to download and use it. In your Autounattend.xml you have to set the <UseConfigurationSet>-Tag to true. This will copy the $OEM$-Folder-Structure from the root of any removalbe media to your install HD. You can set this option if you click on Microsoft-Windows-Setup in the WinPE pass (1) of your answer file. To link to one of the driver pathes choose Insert / Driver Path in WSIM and select the Windows PE pass. There you can put in the path to your driver file - you can add more than just one path by doing these steps as often as you need. Fore more detailed information look at Walkthrough: Build a Configutation Set and Understandign Distribution Shares and Configuration Sets in WSIM help. Martin

It's an Silicon Image 3112 SATA/RAID driver and I've integrated that driver into PE-Image (boot.wim) of the original RC1-DVD using peimg /inf command. It seems to be, that the driver is integrated correctly. The driver does work, if I install it during running vista and I'm able to install it during Setup manually. But it won't be installed automatically during Setup. Martin

I'm using BDD 2007 V3.3 and the -m option isn't listed through oscdimg /? and it's not explained in helpfile/s of WSIM, but it's working. I've just overread that you were using the -m option in your first post at page 4 of this thread. I've picked up the oscdimg command from WSIM help - without the -m option. This is the reason I run in trouble. The only problem I have for the moment is, that the integrated driver is not installed. I've posted a thread about that in TechNet... Thanks fizban! Martin

Hey fizban, I'll call you the visionary from now on! This is exactly the error message I was getting. But why the heck MS does not explain this option in help file...? Thanks, Martin

What does the -m option do? I've used the same command like you without the "-m" option. Ok, I've had other pathes but used etfsboot.com, too. Here is what I did: 1. Copied the contents of Vista DVD to HD. 2. Mounted the boot.wim located in /sources. 3. Added an .inf file for an SATA/RAID driver with peimg /inf 4. unmounted boot.wim and copied it back to /sources folder 5. Tried to recreate an image of the whole DVD using oscdimg and got an error message that the image was to big or something like that. 6. Tried with Nero. Didn't work eather, cause install.wim is larger than 2 GB and it does not support udf boot dvd. 7. Used ImgBurn to recreate the image with udf format and it worked fine. I can use the DVD to install Vista but it does not install the SATA/RAID driver. I've thought it would not install cause the driver is not signed - well it's still a beta. I can install this driver while vista is running but I would like to understand the unattended way of doing this. Would the Bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks ON work under PE, too? And thanks a lot for the quick response!!! Martin

@ fizban: Is oscdimg working for you with images larger than 2 GB? Cause it wasn't so far for me... However you can create bootable images and DVD with UDF filesystem with the freeware ImgBurn. It's available at www.imgburn.com. Martin @all: Does anybody know how to turn off driver signing to install bootcritical SATA/Raid drivers? Thanks!

I've still no list with the status code, but I've fixed that special problem. My driver path was just incomplete. It's not enough to put in the directory where the .inf file is into, you've to put in the whole path to the .inf file. Martin