Tripredacus

There are a lot of options, but its possible that just using the Local Security Policy on XP might not be enough. Maybe you can look at it all and maybe find something else. It talks about using Zones, but I'm not sure how you'd put drive letters into a Zone. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457006.aspx

I don't think it will read a thumb drive. I know that if the OS was resealed using the /unattend switch, you can change the answer file. You can try putting an answer file in one of the search path locations, but I don't know if sysprep will pick it up. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749415%28WS.10%29.aspx

Jethro Tull - Bungle in the Jungle

Are you using stock or custom firmware?

When your PC is hanging at POST, does it show a number in the lower right hand corner? I can't remember if that board shows the POST codes or not.

You need to build your deployment image using an answer file.

Do you mean you want to make it so no one can execute a program from the E: drive?

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Psychic Lover - Don't Give Up

The KB article says that it is only for 2008 (RTM), it could be tripping up on the version if it is looking for something specific to that OS to update. My server doesn't even have this file.

1. It was marked active during install/deployment. Basically how the recovery partition works is that it is hidden. If you want to boot into it, you need to send a command that unhides it and sets it as the first boot volume. The trick is that after doing your work in WinRE, that a script or program runs to hide the partition again. ID changes to partitions do not take immediate effect, as the BIOS only reads the partition IDs during POST. 2. If you want a scenario where you have: - System Reserved (active) - WinRE (hidden) - Blank partition You will need some sort of BIOS level software to handle unhiding the partition and allow booting into it, since Windows isn't there to handle the boot request. I used the MBR.EXE program from Terabyte Unlimited in this old project: Additional: Yes well the public MS documentation is hard to figure out sometimes I'd agree. Basically it is telling you it can't be hidden because if it is, you won't be able to capture it with the supported tools. Sector based imaging software such as Acronis or Ghost can because they don't care if it is hidden or not.

Vista and 7 used slightly different boot methods to get to their WinRE. I find this great because Vista was a pain to do compared to 7. Anyways, the System Reserved partition may not be 100% required, but since creating it with a recovery partition is required (for support purposes) I never tried to deploy it without one. But yes, the SR partition is marked as active. The order should be: 1. System Reserved 2. Recovery 3. Windows The reason why it boots into Windows and not WinRE each time is because the WinRE partition is marked as a hidden boot volume. So in this case, the BIOS of a computer picks the first available boot volume, the one with Windows on it because it can't see the WinRE partition. The reason to put the recovery partition first, or the service partition even back in XP days at the beginning of the disk did have some sort of reason for it. I forgot it by now. But you can definately have a recovery partition after the OS volume, for example I always installed the SoftThinks recovery partition (for XP) at the end of the disk just because it was easier to do, and they didn't seem to care what partition it was when dealing with support issues. It would appear that none of my Microsoft documentation talks about the relevance of the location of the recovery partition.

A few things to ask. 1. Was the drive you are trying to read the disc in the same drive that had burned the disc? 2. What program did you use to do the burning... is it possible that the session wasn't closed?

If used as intended, the recovery partition is hidden by default. It can only be made active by selecting the option in the Windows boot menu. If you have removed Windows, you can't access the boot menu to do this. You'd need to boot into a PE of some sort and use diskpart to unhide and make the recovery partition active.

So you mean "Source Network Address" has a blank value?

Unfortunately, neither the customers I work with, or myself are in an emerging market. As such I have no exposure to Windows 7 Home Basic. I'd rather just stick with Professional, since I don't see the need to use Home Premium.

Besides UAC, there are multiple protections built into Windows. I'd only recommend disabling these in a virtual environment, or on a secondary system that isn't your primary computer. They are there for a reason... They include: Windows File Protection System Protection Windows Resource Protection Here are some I found using the search:

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Dioxyde - Angel

When I used to use one monitor, I would make use of my available screen space like you, splitting up the screen. As far as VMs go, it ends up being the same as just using programs. On the PC I have the vSphere client on, it is a wide screen so I have enough space to run both consoles, but if I didn't have a widescreen monitor, it would be a real pain.

Catherine Zeta-Jones - And All That Jazz

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