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Is there any native 64bit Windows apps that can write MBR code using command line? I have a side-project where I need to deploy a DOS image from a WinPE x64, and I have everything done except all of my MBR tools are x86 applications.

That is normal to see the System Reserved get a drive letter in WinPE when booting on a system with an existing OS.

I'll be nice and fix your title this time.... but next time I might have to go read the forum rules again.

I had an idea you'd see that .sys file. If you haven't determined already, that is a DirectX (dxgmms1.sys) file, which means you now have a direction to look at for your issues: The graphics card. There was a video card testing program I once used (and posted about here) but I can't find it now. So until I can remember that one, let's get back to your question. You say you have this problem, but have revealed little about what you are doing at the time. Then you do mention watching a video online. So here are some ideas and questions. - Update your video drivers (use manufacturer not Windows Update) - What browser are you using? - Does it only do this when the video card is being used? (videos, flash, games, etc)

While I presume that the Metro Store has its own documentation, I don't have that atm, and (to be honest) don't think I care enough about it to find it. But I can say a few things about it. To start, I do know that all apps need to be approved (and digitally signed) before they can show up in the App Store. This means that there must be some (hopefully large) amount of people that tries all these apps before making them available. This doesn't mean that you can't just make an app and toss it in your Win8, you can do this for sure. But back to why I quoted your post. There is a vision about Metro Apps (that ties into the removal of the Start Menu and the phasing out of the desktop experience) that lets Apps run without the (potential) ability to corrupt the operating system. This is yet another layer of "security" to keep users from hurting themselves as discussed many pages ago in this thread. That being said, Metro Apps aren't allowed into those protected OS areas that our advanced thingies are likely to go. Want an app to format a USB key? Too bad. Want an app to read or write an MBR to something? Nope, sorry. Want an app that can read a thread's memory contents? Yeah right. This would make me presume that even an app that could take a screenshot wouldn't actually be able to save it to your hard drive as a JPG, instead off to the cloud it goes? Other things not allowed? enabling DVD playback, access the registry, replaces the Metro store or the Metro interface (or possibly add a Start Menu).... Oh and they can't launch other apps. So to summarize, those 200 advanced type apps do not appear replaceable by a Metro app.

That was the story for me with Google + but the problem was Google then banned me because they didn't allow "aliases" at the time.

I had an idea... and I blew it out of the water halfway through. I don't know if I will be keeping this sig for that long (we'll see, I do like my old one) so I'll post it here for posterity.

Found something you might like. Take a look at this: Source

How are you doing it now? See this for reference: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrswdist/thread/07958fa7-865f-4bca-9d6a-d536b14e72a2/

Do not make multiple threads.

The MSR setting is only used in a GPT type format. The user's posted diskpart script does not mention switching to GPT mode. I'm fairly certain that Diskpart is smart enough to throw an error if you try to make an MSR partition on an MBR disk.

You should have the option for creating a dump on Process Explorer for that process at the time of high usage.

Is your image generalized?

I was more thinking along the lines of Lost in Translation, but unfortunately it appears that site does not work any longer.

Don't assign the System Reserved a drive letter at all with your diskpart script. And you can't set 2 partitions to be active, so remove the active on the "W" volume.

Your InputLocale has invalid data in it. Change it to this: <InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale> Take this out of the ImageInstall object <InstallToAvailablePartition>true</InstallToAvailablePartition> Take this out of UserData <FullName>Corey Knapp</FullName>

Either use the attachment system to attach the XML to your post, or paste your answer file in CODE tags. Copying plain-text off the forum can usually lead to formatting errors when pasted into Notepad, among other things. CODE tags help in that respect, but doesn't beat attaching the file directly.

Ok, so you have an image now and need to deploy it, is that where you are getting this problem? Are you using Gimagex or Setup to deploy your image?

Does it do that even if you remove the Word Configuration object?

Set it for 20GB or so, that's what I have for my full disk, single partition answer files. Specifically, I have: 20480

Easy way out, quote rules:

Again, change the Extend in CreatePartitions to False and add a Size. Change the Extend in ModifyPartition back to True. What kind of hardware are you attempting to install on? Is it a notebook? What if you install manually, does Setup still give you the error when trying to install?

The InputLocale is correct, but I don't know why you have the numbers for the rest. <InputLocale>0411:00000411</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>ja-JP</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>ja-JP</UILanguage> <UserLocale>ja-JP</UserLocale> UserLocale [technet]

You already have an extend in ModifyPartitions, so that should be sufficient. You can find more info on the Unattend files here:

It is because when a new hard disk is added to a system that was made on another PC, it is seen as being a foreign disk. It may have something to do with how your enclosure hardware reports the drive to the OS. Does it appear as a removable disk or as a hard drive? One way to tell is how it appears in Computer.