Tripredacus

I'm sure we have something here to help with that.

There was one instance where a person in management wanted to connect a DC powered computer to a forklift battery charger... To which I said "that is the stupidest idea I've ever heard" followed by "I'm going to wait outside to greet the ambulance, let me know when its safe to come back inside."

Well if it boots to WinRE then something was done to change it or that it was initially created in a non-standard way. There would be no reason that the hidden partition would be unhidden and bootable after formatting the OS volume. If there is any MBR tools used to control the WinRE, formatting OS volume may not remove it, making it possible to still have the control code in that partition for WinRE. For your script, i don't know the relevance of setting ID 0x27 so soon. The newer WinPE is fast enough to possibly detect changes in partitions, which I ran into with doing XP recovery. Usually I would only change partition IDs at the end of all my work.

I had DSL at one point just over a year ago. They provide a little black "modem" that is (technically) a 1 port router. It only has 1 pots and 1 ethernet port. I do still have it, it is made by Westell but I don't remember the model. Of course, I don't know how long you've had that modem (or service) but you may have been in a pilot market. Usually the ISPs will test new hardware in certain markets for a period of time to determine whether or not they should push it for everyone else. Also, your market may have different capabilities as far as the DSL network goes too, you never really know. I'm not in that business anymore, but I doubt that the way those companies operate has changed all that much.

I always read that the Server 2008 R2 functional domain level has a shared network recycle bin, which was never anything that any server I've set up ever needed, which I use just the 2008 RTM functional level. Is this a manual way to set that up then?

Of course! There are walkthroughs in the WAIK you can read. Maybe the Technet Deployment Portal has something for you to start with too. We have a bunch of links here:

I don't have any Windows XP systems anymore.

Sometimes the ad images may not be the correct size and "break out" of the space they are supposed to be in. I've come across this in the past. If you see this again, can you take a screenshot of it, or post the URL for where this image is coming from?

Tripredacus, Custom firmware on a router modem? I didn't know that was possible. No, it's using whatever there was in it when it arrived. So I guess the answer must be that it's stock firmware. --JorgeA I wasn't aware that you had a combination unit. In my area, Verizon only supplies router/modems to FiOS customers.

I often see certain ODDs take their sweet time reporting during POST also. You can see if its fast to get throught post with the ODD or even HDD disconnected.

What do you want to change? If you want to disable the recovery option, you can run this from an elevated command prompt: reagentc /disable

It seems to be that "Windows Server Enterprise - Service Pack 1, v. 126" is actually "Longhorn Beta 3" ???

Well the Guest account *is* limited to what it can access in the Control Panel because it is disabled by default. If you want to use an account for remote access like that, I would create a user group, and create a new user account and put it in that group. Then you can use Group Policy to lock that User Group down.

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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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.