Tripredacus

Tripredacus, So I gather that motherboards with UEFI can't run 32-bit OS's? I didn't know that. --JorgeA Its not so much "can't" its more like "probably won't". As I struggled with getting things figured out about it... I was not able to explain the 95% failure rate of being able to deploy Win7 32bit on them, and the 95% success rate while using 64bit. I've done probably over 50 (or maybe 100) deployments on this new spec and was never able to explain why I wasn't getting a 100% replication of either kind. Intel and the other ODMs I was in contact with didn't really have any idea of what the trouble was. It took me about 2 months to get the "32bit not supported on UEFI" email from Microsoft. While the official line of why Win 8 32bit isn't supported because it can't take advantage of UEFI 2.3.1's features, I'm certain this slight incompatibility also weighs heavily into their decision. Now for the technical reasoning behind this, it has to do with the bootloader. You should be able to deploy 32bit Win8 (or Win7 for that matter) onto a UEFI 2.3.1 spec board as long as you use unattend to only have 1 partition. Its when there is a System Reserved (or similar) partition involved that Windows does a kabooom on this hardware spec. It was really annoying when I didn't have the answer, but now that I do we just adapt to it. What else can you do?

I've modified your topic title. Since this is not an RT7lite forum, you'll either need to put RT7 in your topic title or post your questions in their topic.

Its not so dreaded. Did you already set up a share on your Win7 PC and create an account to log in with?

Yes I've heard of this before... I think even seen it happen with Vista before. I don't think I've tried to use the ODD after having installed Windows 8 yet. I plan on doing some more development for Win8 on Monday so maybe I can try it if I remember. I am only dealing with Windows 8 RP x64 tho, not touching 32bit version at all I don't think.

32bit Windows 8 is likely going to be a legacy OS for people to use on older hardware. Of all the new hardware I am testing this month: 2 AMD boards 10 Intel boards 4 notebooks All of them except 1 have UEFI 2.3.1. So in this case, 32bit Windows (7 or even 8) is not supported on those devices. So because many manufacturers are using the new spec, I forsee that most Windows 8 in the market will be 64bit, or tablets which will have RT for ARM. And even the tablets will be from few manufacturers, since there is some limiter in the channel for who can sell ARM based products for some reason.

I'm thinking you'll have to code something up to run at FirstLogonCommands or SetupComplete.cmd. How to deploy from a website using JavaScript [ MSDN ] However, it looks like you should be able to use AutoIT, VBScript or some other language to install it using the API call msAddTrackingProtectionList.

Yes you can use WSUS which will let you manage what updates your clients receive. You can even set up different groups of types to add computers into, say if you want managers to get different updates than secretaries or whatever you think of. But is this an Unattend question?

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.