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The first thing I do to help is split this out of the other topic. How much memory on the client PC? Post the model of the mainboard/notebook you are using. If you have 4GB or more, look to see if there is a "DRAM over 4GB Remapping" option in the BIOS: Social

Oh waiit, duh! So in the end, you are attempting to install the Vista WIM using the Windows 7 setup.exe? That could be the problem. You may need to script it to use the Vista setup.exe, call it setup2.exe or something and you could put it in the same place as the Win7 setup.exe. You can try run depends on both to see if the older setup needs different files if that still doesn't work.

I haven't tried capturing a Win7 install using Vista WAIK but you could capture a Vista WIM with the Win7. The only problem I can see is you'd lose a generalize.

Do a USB keyboard or mouse work? Drives work definately different because they are "enhanced" or bidirectional devices. Check your BIOS to see if there are any BIOS setting differences between a working and non-working system.

If your computer has a temperature readout in the BIOS of the system temperature, you can run your game enough to hear the fans, then quickly exist the game and reboot to see what the temperature is running at. Anyways, it seems strange that you have other dumps recorded besides the nVidia ones.

At what point during installation do you receive this STOP error? Is it during the "loading files" part, or do you get to click stuff in the Setup screen... or is it after the first reboot?

Make sure you check out the forum rules, including 2.a. Try the solution highlighted in Microsoft Social. It appears that this error is related to Windows Updates that fail to install or install properly. Check your Windows Updates log to see if there are any failures there as well, as well you can check Event Viewer for any errors regarding Windows Udates or Windows Installer.

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Not sure if it is related, but the XML inside of the default install.wims for Win7 and Vista have different structure.

I've subscribed to it for now. I'm not one to sticky topics just for fun. We'll see how it goes and I'll keep an eye on it. May end up moving to WinPE forum as well, we shall see.

Are you using the custom USB drivers? I read there are two versions of wdfcoinstaller1005.dll, x86 and x64. Make sure you are using the correct one. There is a big topic about it here, but frankly I'm not too familiar with its purpose: https://www.osronline.com/ShowThread.cfm?link=112087 Alternatively, you may want to check for any of the log files in either of the Panther folders (including the CBS log files) to see if we can get a better error. And because I just remembered, are you updating Windows Media Player before sysprep?

Oooo be careful there. There are two things that the CMD uses to find the recovery partition and it may be compiled. I see from the post that there is a custom RE application so without knowing what is in there and what it does that may become broken. The recovery partition is detected by looking for the prescense of a certain file and also by the volume GUID. The reason it looks confusing is because the CMD is supposed to be run BEFORE the recovery partition is hidden (such as in deployment or when booted into WinRE). So in those cases, it has no problem finding the recovery or boot partition because it has a drive letter at that point. There should be two CMD files, both similarly named. One is in the boot partition and one in the recovery partition. Personally I like Win7 WinRE better. Vista's is just annoying.

Are you getting any actual error messages, even in Event Viewer? Make sure only your NIC that is connected to the internet has a default gateway, and that you are not specifying a default gateway on your local NIC.

I'm not too sure about this question (subject matter) other than it doesn't belong in GD. I'll move it to Software Hangout, also it could also be networking, scripting or media related.

Yes, since MSE will actually not work if you have updates disabled, you'll have to just check it. When it needs an update it will usually turn orange and show up in the system tray if you normally have it hidden. But if you have your Windows update set to download but you get to choose what updates to install, then Windows will download the MSE update but won't install it until you select it with whatever other updates are ready for you. But you can also just run the update from MSE as well... and it seems that MSE will also sometimes just updates itself from itself and not directly with the Windows Update interface, so maybe I am mistaken.

No actually, is there a reason why there is nothing on the keys? Now that you mention it I don't think I ever look at the keyboard anymore, but playing games (like custom button mapping) might be a problem!

Is this connected directly to your computer or is it on a network? If it is on the network (such as physically attached to a workgroup computer) make sure you load the Windows 7 driver in using the "additional drivers" button. If there is no Win7 driver, you can try a Vista driver instead.

Sony likely uses a customized Windows RE if it is looking for that specific file. I am not familiar with Sony recovery partitions, so I am not certain of how they are different from normal ones. I am also not sure (based on the translation) exactly what the state of the OS installed on the notebook is. Anyways, the Recovery DVD should work on the system, at least if you haven't replaced the hard drive in the system.

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If you manually go through the dcpromo wizard, at the end you will be able to export this file. Here is an example that I have from a 2008 R2 server. ; DCPROMO unattend file (automatically generated by dcpromo) ; Usage: ; dcpromo.exe /unattend:C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\ad_setup.txt ; [DCInstall] ; New forest promotion ReplicaOrNewDomain=Domain NewDomain=Forest NewDomainDNSName=NAME.FQDN ForestLevel=3 DomainNetbiosName=NAME DomainLevel=3 InstallDNS=Yes ConfirmGc=Yes CreateDNSDelegation=No DatabasePath="C:\Windows\NTDS" LogPath="C:\Windows\NTDS" SYSVOLPath="C:\Windows\SYSVOL" ; Set SafeModeAdminPassword to the correct value prior to using the unattend file SafeModeAdminPassword= ; Run-time flags (optional) ; RebootOnCompletion=Yes

Check the file size for the user profile you are trying to log in with. If it is over 2GB I can definately see this as being a problem. For troubleshooting purposes, you could create another account to log in with, that you will know to be new and clean, and see if there is any difference.

Ah fortunately, this is an easy to understand error! Well sort of. This error, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is a problem with a driver file, or with another program misusing the driver. The driver it calls out, nvlddmkm.sys is part of an nVidia video driver package. So things you can try: update the video drivers. You can try the one from nVidia or the one from Windows Update. One on WU showed up in Novemeber that fixed an issue I was having, but not the same as this. Also you can try turning Aero off if you have it on. My computer at work can't use Aero... it turns on but Windows locks up or gives errors. Also I noticed you have another error listed caused by cdrom.sys. You can try updating your chipset driver for that, but the only reason why I bring this up is because of that virus (can't find the actual name) that hides in the cdrom.sys. I battled a system late last year with a virus hidden in cdrom.sys, so just pointing that out.

To be honest, if you have set your HOSTS file to block facebook (you should be using 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0... also should probably also block fbcdn.net/com as well) and your employees are circumventing these settings, blocking facebook isn't the way to resolve this issue. If you have sent along an official communication to your staff about it being blocked at some point in the past, and they are still finding ways to get there, that is a personnel problem (rather than a technical problem) that may require disciplinary action (for insubordination). That is just my opinion and not to say there is no technical answer to your question.

It would be a daunting task for anyone to accomplish what you ask. Even finding these types of websites may be all but impossible, seeing how a lot of the scam sites (like the fake paypal sites) do not even show up in search results. Anyways, the only reason why Microsoft would have your phone number is if you enrolled into that quality feedback program thing (I forget the name) that Windows may prompt you about after installation.

You can use DISM to show you information about those oem.inf and also shows original inf name and maybe even HwID. I don't have a system to run it on to give you a good cmd example. Read about the /Get-Drivers and /Get-DriverInfo switches for DISM here. As for driver control besides that, I am working on a new set of images that will be versioned, and all drivers that are added are being documented. How to handle documenting the other HwIDs an inf supports is still unknown at this point but I'm working on it.