Tripredacus

Ha great. Yes I know about that, but Win8 seems to pop open those file contents less than a second after inserting the key. The same key takes 5 seconds or so to open on Win7. Although... I would say that Win98 can use a USB key just as fast as Win8... Oh the other thing I like... Event Viewer seems to be worlds faster.

That strange wallpaper used in those shots certainly doesn't help.

oh there was... I have a suspicion that "the OP" is a spammer that never came back. Well I can't prove it since I wasn't the one to remove the info from the profile page.

Get ready to open your wallet!

Maybe our approaches are different. For every final "gold" image I create, I also create a duplicate image that is in audit mode and save that too. This approach basically makes it so I don't ever have to go over the "2" syspreps.

Well that is the XP versioning. The Windows 7 one already has a 5 digit version number as opposed to the (256) 3 in your example. My netbook doesn't seem to have it. It has v7.5.7601.17514 from January 24, 2012.... although the file date that appears in Explorer is 2010... I don't see an update for WUA in the updates list there. Anyways, what is the problem you are having? You left that part out of your post.

The only time I've seen that is when you put the PC to hibernate, then swap the HDD and wake it up. I didn't ever see it at any other time of boot or installation.

Thanks for this great read. It has brought me some inspiration:

Can you get in from Safe Mode? You may have a corrupt profile.

Well, when a computer goes to sleep it does not turn off. You are thinking about hibernate, which turns the PC "off" when it "sleeps." There are a bunch of things that can keep a computer awake. Take a look at the power settings and advanced options on some of the devices in device manager, such as USB and NIC. I don't have an exact answer as I don't use this function.

What's different about the way Win8 handles USB keys? --JorgeA Opens right away and doesn't keep prompting me to scan them. I use these USB keys multiple times a day and all that time wasted waiting for the dirs to open adds up.

Thats one thing that is holding me back. But here I sit using my Win7 PC all day and sometimes wish it handled some things like Win8 does, such as USB keys.

It looks like a typo. Should be RD /s/q. C:\Users\xxxx>rd /? Removes (deletes) a directory. RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path /S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree. /Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

I've never used rearm before since there wasn't a valid reason for it. Are you generalizing your images? This is required for deployment, as it takes out the machine-specific data that can cause duplicate CMID error. I see your SKU (presuming it is the same) you posted Windows 7 Enterprise in another thread. Are you using KMS for your activation?

Tripredacus, I am curious how you do this. Is it the 32/64 nature of setup.exe that is causing the 'Load driver' function to fail to find a mass storage driver? Is this a work around for that problem? Thanks and enjoy, John. I use Imagex. I do have normal DVDs that use setup.exe, but their install.wim only have 1 image in them. The only time I used one with multiple in the install.wim was with WDS which was I saw this issue where the Setup boot.wim from 7PRO64 would not display 32bit images. From my understanding, setup.exe uses drvload to install the mass storage drivers. As far as drivers not being found, I've encountered this before, but usually to do with either a corrupted ISO or with poorly written drivers. Either the 32bit or 64bit boot.wim does not support WoW. So if you got that error while running a program on the 64bit boot.wim, then your program or required libraries were not 64bit.

Did you see if you could replicate the behaviour while in safe mode?

Do not make duplicate topics!

Unfortunately, the percentage of users who are even aware of such things is extremely small compared to the amount of people who would end up using Windows 8.

Ah yes. The 32bit setup.exe can show either a 32bit or 64bit index from install.wim. The 64bit Setup.exe can only show a 64bit index from install.wim Note I chose the term "show" as in will appear in the image selection window. For example: I never tried to force 64bit Setup to install a 32bit install using an answer file. My 64bit boot images do not use Setup.exe.

Not yet. Presuming I have some time to try it next week I will.

Microsoft has made available a CTP of Windows Embedded 8 you can try out. If there is any way to get rid of Metro, it can probably be figured out with this. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/evaluate/windows-embedded-standard-8-ctp.aspx

Switches for what? Anyways, as far as drivers go. For the boot.wim you only need LAN and Mass Storage drivers. If you are not doing a network deployment, you may not even need LAN drivers. Since all my WinPE use is from PXE, those two driver types are the ones I use. However, I don't go about adding drivers willy-nilly. Only if a hardware isn't working properly, I add its drivers.

It certainly is a neat idea, but in practice I've found it doesn't always work for some reason and it times out connecting to the MS DL site. Which is fine since I did have the ISO somewhere already.

What are you using re-arm for? What Windows SKU is it?

What is the exact error you get?