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Here are some impressions of the recovery experience... - Accessing the F8 menu is difficult, if not impossible, on UEFI 2.3.1 hardware. By design, Windows disables USB input devices (such as keyboards) during boot for one... - Getting to the Recovery option is tricky and requires digging through menus. - The Refresh option is a welcome return (akin to repair install in XP) but has a habit of removing drivers, including the Realtek Audio Controller driver THAT COMES WITH WINDOWS 8! Fortunately there is an HTML file on the desktop that tells you what was removed. - The "Replace" type option that formats the drive and reinstalls Windows TAKE AT LEAST 2 HOURS! I suspect that unlike Windows 7 full recovery, Windows 8 doesn't do a quick format prior to reinstalling the recovery image.

What is the OS on the source PC and the destination PC? Just to get things clear, tell me if this is incorrect: - You plugged the HDD into the SATA port of the source computer, copied files, disconnected it after powering it down, connected the HDD to the adapter, then plugged it into the destination computer. What is the make/model of the adapter? Is it USB powered or have its own brick?

After searching for 2 minutes, it seems there might be some way to get the logs to actually show some Format Information... But regarding the actual problem, it seems the backup can fail if it encounters an Access Denied scenario caused by these possibles: - Encountered a file that is in use and/or locked by another process - some backup files were deleted during write due to another process (ie. anti-virus) Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa382530%28VS.85%29.aspx I would really take a look-see into Event Viewer at the time of the error-out of the Backup... which seems to be 9:00PM looking at your .ETL. And I don't just mean the top-level logs (Application, Security, System) but also drill into the ones in Applications and Services logs. You might luck out and find something in there someplace that leads you on the right track. You should also be able to find the logs created by Windows Backup when the operation fails, since you didn't post that already.

I do not get a certificate error with that website. If you go to Internet Options, Security tab, what is your setting for the Internet Zone? You can try disabling that program and see if it makes any difference.

Companies often take shortcuts when it comes to certificates. Certificates are assigned to a specific domain name, but companies will use multiple different URLs to the same website and use the same certificate which generates the error. Can you provide an example URL that gives you the certificate error that I can check?

Dell recommending nLite now? I hope this doesn't mean that Dell actually uses it!

Log file location: %WINDIR%\Logs\WindowsServerBackup Have you run CHKDSK on the F: drive? When you say you "I removed all the software from the previous It company" does this include the OS or a reinstall of it? If not, are you using the same user accounts that were on the server previous to you making the changes?

My current company bought parts of my old company and I was retained. The actual Uncle Socks hardware might still exist in one of our other locations, or maybe it was recycled. This one is in name only... BUT it is housed in the chassis from the PC called "Aaron Rules" (now named Stickers) in the first post. The motherboard from Stickers met an unfortunate kaboom a couple months ago and I had saved the chassis which was quite fortunate since I needed one to build the Server 2012 test system. The hard drive from Stickers had been transferred to a new motherboard and chassis. Oh and butwhy.com is not a real domain (you probably should go buy it now lol) and is the internal testing domain name that server sits on. I should probably have called it shark.attacksyou like the old one but oh well. I'll try to take a picture of the chassis that "Stickers" had been in an "Uncle Socks" is in now... so that you know why it was called Stickers.

I've since stopped writing a diary about my computers, but felt like I should mention... Uncle Socks brought back to life.

It appears that via Server 2012 that that particular system did in-fact boot via UEFIx64 method and booted to my WinPE 4.0 x64 boot image. Relevent logs: The following client booted from PXE: Hardware Address: 00-24-25-0E-15-53 IP: 10.12.41.42 Device ID: {00000000-0000-0000-0000-0024250E1553} ClientArchitecture: 4 Prestaged: false ------ The Following Client completed TFTP Download: Client IP: 10.12.41.42 Filename: \Boot\x64\bootmgfw.efi File Size: 1354480 Client Port: 8334 Server Port: 53942 Variable Window: false ------ The Following Client started TFTP Download: Client IP: 10.12.41.42 Filename: \Tmp\x64uefi{1061C2D4-44E6-4B02-AFA7-C73189EE9239}.bcd File Size: 12288 Client Port: 8352 Server Port: 53942 Variable Window: false BUT, still unable to image Windows 7 (did not try Windows 8, don't have the time with the hardware) since BCDBoot cannot write the boot files.

I do not use any of those tools, so I couldn't recommend any. What is giving the BSOD? Is it on installation, or during injection? What is the error?

Disk numbering in WinPE is determined on the speed it takes to enumerated the detected disks. I have done a ton of testing in the past using Spindle disks, SSDs and card readers. On certain systems, the numbering can change between a HDD and a card reader on multiple boots. Plus, how the devices are connected physically (board-level) seems to have an effect on disk numbering. Disks connected via the PCI or SATA bus typically enumerate faster than those connected via the USB bus. But this isn't always the case. When it comes to installing an OS onto a system with a data disk, I always unplug that drive for instalation just because I don't trust Windows to install on the correct disk, whether or not I am using an answer file.

Link removed! Warez found in download! Winterstorm if you want to bring RT here from the old forum you'll need to abide by our forum rules, including: Files in question: - imagex.exe - oscdimg.exe In order to provide users a shortcut to downloading the WAIK or ADK, you should refer them to JFX's tool: No further warnings will be given.

You would want to find which folder has the driver for your hardware. You can search file contents of the INFs for the Hardware ID you need to have support for.

Can you get into Safe Mode?

PuntoMX and I are tied in the birthday battle... until now... Happy Birthday PuntoMX!

It certainly is. And the worst part is there is no setting you can use to pick the "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" setting. What had the permission before? Was it TrustedInstaller?

Previously mentioned "SMSC LAN9500 USB 2.0 to Ethernet 10/100 NIC" has been found capable of doing a UEFI PXE boot! BUT there is a problem. Server 2008 R2 gets the arch value from the NIC and reports it as 7. Now it is already known that Server 2008 R2 does NOT support UEFI PXE boot, but seems to understand what to do with Arch 7. So it ends up serving out the Itanium EFI boot option (bootmgfw.efi) to the NIC. While this appears to work, the PE is loaded with the Itanium EFI rom and the actual hardware is using UEFI. The expected result (as with BIOS based PXE boot to UEFI/GPT systems) is that BCDBoot is unable to write to the BCD Store. Interestingly enough, if you disable the UEFI Boot option in the BIOS, it automatically will disable the onboard NIC and boot ROM. It does not appear that this system is capable of doing a BIOS level PXE boot. Even if you enable the LAN Option ROM, the other networking related pages in the BIOS are unavailable (grayed out) and it won't even attempt to boot from LAN even if you set LAN as the first boot item and disable everything else. This NIC is included in the CZC U116T Ultrabook. Unfortunately, this product is out the door, so while I have built a new system with Server 2012, I won't be able to test this functionality until another one comes in or something else shows up that can do a UEFI PXE boot.

Are you in Audit Mode? You can tell by going to the Desktop and you will see the Sysprep box on the screen.

Intel Desktop boards DH77KC and DH77DF have new BIOS version 0100 that adds BGRT support. Note from the PDF they speak of an error you get using the ITK 5: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/21846/eng/KC_0100_ReleaseNotes3.pdf

I'm getting "Bing points" every time I click on that link.

Well you can definately use it for onsie-twosies... plus then you'd already have the ability to scale up your operation in the future.

Have you looked into using MDT and a deployment share? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd407791.aspx

I can't really find any pay products, but these 2 IBM apps: IBM version of EZ-Smart http://www.techrepublic.com/article/get-smart-to-predict-hard-drive-failures/1055303 IBM Feature/Align Tool: http://download.chip.eu/en/IBM_Hitachi-Feature-Tool_1573833.html http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/#FeatureTool But those aren't for files. Maybe something on the UBCD, which has a lot of hard disk related programs included: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/