sammycat

I got it working. The part i didn't do from day 1 is ximage /apply. Where did you get your winpe.wim image file? I actually used boot.wim and got it working. I am now in the command prompt. I need to do more research on what I can do next . I have WDS set up and I am goign to see if I can ghost that machine up as a WIM image file. Right now it has the Windows XP SP2 base image. If you have any insights on this please let me know. Thank you so much for the help. Sammycat

I appreciate your help. However, I am still getting the winloader.exe error after copying the file directly from the original directory. The file I used was: F1_WinPE.wim. The steps I followed are below: (I did not use the ximage /expport command). Should I have used a different WIM file? Thanks. Step 1: Setup a Windows PE Build EnvironmentOpen a command prompt window. Create a local Windows PE build directory, for example: mkdir winpe\boot mkdir winpe\sources The \winpe directory will be used for creating an .iso image. Step 2: Create an .iso imageCopy boot files from Microsoft Vista OPK CD or Windows PE CD to local build location. Create an .iso using oscdimg tool. For example: copy \\<CD path location>\bootmgr C:\winpe xcopy /cherky \\<CD path location>\boot C:\winpe\boot ximage /export /compress max C:\winpebuild\boot.wim 1 c:\winpe\sources\boot.wim oscdimg -n -b\\<CD path location>\etfsboot.com c:\winpe c:\winpe.iso

Alright! Thanks for your help. I will try it first thing in the morning. How far did everyone get with WDS?

I followed the instructions to create the Windows PE 2.0 bootable CD. Everything worked fine execept I got the "winloader.exe" is corrupted error when I tried to boot from that CD. I have tried to recreate the image, using different medias, but I still got the same error. Anyone got any insights on this? Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks. I found the procedure you were talking about and mad ethe first bootable CD. However, it would not get past the winloader.exe stage. I used the boot.wim file from the VISTA DVD. I think other people ran into the same problem too. How did you create your bootable CD? Please let me know. Thanks.

I cannot find WAIK at the Connect website. Where can I find it please? Has anyone built a WinPE 2.0 bootable CD yet? I notice the big CAB file in the WAIK image but never found out how to make that into a bootable image/CD. If anyone had any success please share with the group. Thanks.

How did you make the ISO image of WinPE 2.0? Did you use the WinPE.CAB file in the WAIK ISO? I have been trying to figure out a way to make a bootable CD too. Thanks.

That's the next thing I am going to do - Create a WIM image. Have you done it in your test environment yet? We are looking into different deployment method. I don't think WDS can deploy the WIM image through the server..

Did you try it in your environment and got it worked??

My ghost image is on the entire disk. I didn't do it on partitions. So when I restored the image I restored to the disk. I even tried to do it partition by partition but it failed. Thanks.

No. They are on separate partitions. I installed Windows XP first and then installed Vista on another partition.

I have managed to get the dual boot of Windows Vista and Windows XP working on my laptop. I used Ghost to create the ghost image successfully. However, when I try to load that image on to the same machine the machine can't boot into either operation system anymore. Has anyone tried this? I am wondering if it is because Vista is not supported under Ghost yet. Thanks.

Confirmed. Microsoft just released it. I got it downloaded. Thanks.

Micrsoft made the announcement that the tools were already out. Has anyone got the tools? Where can I find the tools if I can't see them on Microsoft Connect site? Thanks for your help.