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Ha my HTA does things like that too because I do not have good error handling in it. Anyways, you cannot post any files found within the recovery partition.

As I mentioned before, my company stopped selling Vista so I never worked with SP2. However, when I wanted to make SP1 installs, here was my process. 1. Use Autounattend.xml to install Vista and have it boot to Audit mode. 2. Install the SP1 standalone installer (wave0 in my case) 3. Sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown 4. capture the drive as a WIM with Imagex Of course I used a WDS Server for my deployments, but you can create a new install DVD easily. Take your WIM and call it INSTALL.WIM and replace the one in the sources folder. You should be able to do an install with that, probably can do with an XML as well. You do not need to put the XML on the DVD, you can insert a UFD during install.

Well the "operation completed successfully" is a standard system message, that's why it shows up there. Whatever the last thing it did (or last recorded doing) succeeded, even though the installation itself failed. Basically, that message is from a sub-process, and not to reflect the entire process. There seems to be a couple fixes for this message. 1. Updating drivers 2. installing via Windows update. Social

You can't select multiple folders to take ownership. You can select the "most" parent folder and take ownership of that. - Right-click on folder, click Properties - click Security - click Advanced - click the Owner tab - click Edit - select your Account in the "Change owner to" list. - select the "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" - click OK.

Also recommend use RE drives from WD. I wouldn't trust desktop drives for this setup. Are you doing software or hardware RAID?

The drive itself may still be set to RAID. You haven't posted a lot of information about your previous RAID configuration, such as type or controller. If you do not need the data on the drive, you can write zeroes to it, although a low-level format may be able to remove the RAID flag as well. Sending to Drives forum for more insight.

I totally understand the "not successful" part... What does it say under details? Also this screen appears after the reboot, you can ignore it and look at Computer Properties, does it say SP1 there?

I made that comment regarding the fact that I've seen so many forums come and go. It seems difficult to get a new forum to be popular because there is usually an old forum that is still going strong that is established enough to take most of that kind of traffic away. If you think of all (or maybe most but of course I am sure Jaclaz can prove me wrong) of the big time forums are from "old-time" websites/forums from back in the "dot com days".

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Speccy should be able to tell you the name of the board.

I posted an example XML that will boot a system into Audit mode, here. This example has the Win7 install key, so you need to change it to your Vista install key. Please make a new topic if you have further questions, as this isn't specifically related to the Guide.

I don't know if you are allowed to brand the logon screen. You can do the Windows Welcome. But you already have this documentation! It is in the OPK User's Guide under Windows 7 OEM Customization Opportunities, First Experience.

SBS will create an Active Directory domain in your house! Do you have a need for this? You may be wanting to use something like Sharepoint Server, but honestly, even that may be too much. Also before you attempt to put a server in your home (if you are in the US) make sure you do not have a residential account for your ISP. Reason being, most ISP has running a server on residential service account is against TOC. You can lose your service, but if you do not know which to do, call them and ask what options you can have.

For the username, you type in COMPUTERA'SNAME\username That will change the "current" domain away from your computer B.

I'm not sure how to use an unattend on the boot image (from a partition), you could try rebuilding the boot wim but there is a problem. The Vista WinRE really isn't anything besides a WinPE and the recovery front-end. That was the problem with Vista, MS made you write the recovery software. Anyways, about the Fujitsu files, there is no reason those actually need to be there to run a recovery.

I was wondering if that SID in the indexing logs matches the SID on your user account, which can be found in the Registry under HKEY_USERS. I can definately see a problem in trying to index a foreign disk. I have foreign disks (hard drives from other OS/computers) in two of my Win7 machines (work and home) and haven't gotten an error like this. However, I am not certain if I have the index turned on for those drives, and I would imagine that they are not set to be indexed. However, at home I did have problems with one of my foreign disks (from an XP PC) and I had to take ownership of the entire volume. So unless someone else can come up with another idea, I can see two options: 1. set permissions to allow the SYSTEM "account" read/write access to the entire volume. 2. take ownership (to your user account) of the entire volume. The problem with either of these is that the process can take a long time, as it depends on the amount of files involved.

When you tried the second (bad) video card in the PC by itself, do you put it in the slot the other (good) video card was in?

You should use an autounattend.xml to boot your OS into Audit Mode. If you use the Ctrl+Shift+F3 after install, you end up losing a generalize.

First take the XML I posted and change the language settings. Use that to do your install and see if it prompts you for anything. You can remove the drive formatting sections if you want. You do not need to remove the product key I have in there either. That product key is an install key.

I find it disheartening that Fujitsu would leave these files in their image... whatever happens, these files are non-redistributable, so you cannot share them or even post their code. Just an FYI.