Tripredacus

Because men read books about killing things?

I wish my exams in college had questions like this!

Note: this topic will be moved to Vista Unattend of vLite depending on further information. The XP install likely failed because (I am guessing) the BIOS is set for AHCI drive type instead of IDE. How much memory is in this tablet? If you have the ability to boot the tablet with an NTFS friendly source like WinPE or NTFSDOS, you can find setupact.log in the Panther folder. It may not tell us what is wrong, but it should have logged the last thing it was doing before it locked up. One last thing, when Vista freezes as you say, does the animation still go or does that stop too?

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Look up this code: <OOBE> <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage> <NetworkLocation>Other</NetworkLocation> <ProtectYourPC>2</ProtectYourPC> </OOBE>

Seeing how my regular restart button works, I decided to compare its code to the one that is not working. It is interesting because I am doing something different. Since this project is over a year old, I am not exactly sure why it is different. Here is the code for the main HTA: Sub RunRestart Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") objShell.Run "fscommand\restart.exe" On Error Resume Next Set objShell = Nothing End Sub So you see, the one that works calls an EXE file... It is an AutoIT program, here is the code: Switch MsgBox(1, "Restart", "You have chosen to restart the computer. Click OK to continue.") Case 1;OK pressed RunWait (@ComSpec & " /c c:\mbr 0 0 /h") RunWait (@ComSpec & " /c x:\windows\system32\wpeutil reboot") Case 2;CANCEL pressed Exit() EndSwitch Possible reasons the previous posted code did not work: 1. It is being run off a second HTA? 2. I did not use the full path like the EXE does? I have to wait until the XPe image gets its final build before I can try calling the EXE instead of wpeutil to restart the PC. I am going to have to rebuild the EXE as well to run the MBR.EXE from the X: instead of C: because it *should* still be hidden at that point.

I believe what you are looking for is FirstLogonCommands. You can see an example of it here:

Can you get into the BIOS? You might have a video problem more than an OS problem.

I am using a Radeon 9600XT 256MB AGP card. I tried an X1650 but I found there were no drivers for it. I am using a Win98 FE with misc SE files installed. There were no X1650 series drivers available for any 98 that I could find, I didn't even try looking for HD series. Besides the HD series are designed for DX10+. PS I was able to play Crysis with the 9600XT on the same hardware as my 9x PC but with XP. It is possible, but not recommended.

I averaged about 700kbps but that does not necessarily mean much. I likely have a faster internet connection than you, plus the routing is likely a lot different.

You should be mounting your image with DISM, not Imagex. Use this syntax: DISM /MOUNT-WIM /WIMFILE:D:\source\winpe.wim /INDEX:1 /MOUNTDIR:C:\winpe_x86\mount What is the error DISM gives you? Please be more specific.

What is the STOP error you are getting?

I wasn't joking, there is more to it than 1 and 0. What I mend was: You can access the drive but can't set some bits to 0 again. (that LoL sign is on the wrong side of the screen ) Thump thump

Diskpart is changed in WinPE 3.0, which caused the problem above. After each command you run with Diskpart, it does a drive rescan, so it is a little smarter than in WinPE 2.x. What this means is that since I hide the C drive with the winpeshl.ini, the PE cannot find the backup.wim to restore from. I have fixed this of course! Here is the full recovery code now: ObjShell.run "cmd /c mbr 0 0 /uh",0,True ObjShell.run "cmd /c diskpart /s x:\windows\system32\full_diskpart.txt",0,True ObjShell.run "cmd /c imagex /apply c:\backup.wim 1 d:",0,True ObjShell.run "cmd /c c:\mbr 0 0 /h",0,True So basically I need to unhide the recovery partition before and after applying the image back to the OS drive. This is an important step, that the winpeshl.ini hides the recovery partition when the PE loads, and that it unhides and rehides as needed. Here is the winpeshl.ini before further discussion: [LaunchApps] %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\mbr.exe, "0 /reset" %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\mbr.exe, "0 0 /h" %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\wpeinit.exe %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\setres.exe, "1024 768 32 1" %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\mshta.exe, "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\recovery1024x768.hta" So line 2 rehides the partition. Line 1 resets the MBR back to the normal state, ie the recovery partition will not be the Active partition on reboot. I have to hide the partition so much because I need to make sure that the end-user can safely reboot into Windows without a problem. This is NOT a perfect system and there is not much I can do about that. Here is a list of situations where you can not be able to boot into the OS again: 1. You press F11 to boot into the Recovery, but hit reset or power off the machine before WinPE starts to load. In this situation, you SHOULD still be able to get back into Recovery by pressing F11, but if you do not press a key, it will go to the next device, which may be Network Boot or it will just give the generic, unable to boot message. 2. If there is a memory error, as such that WinPE does not function properly, there is no garauntee what the Recovery partition will do on bad memory. 3. If you take memory out of the machine. WinPE 3.0 x86 requires 512MB minimum, but 1GB recommended. If, say, memory goes bad and there is less than 512MB in the machine, booting into Recovery may be impossible, even if you can boot into XP. Here is another thread concerning this project, where a simple discussion turned into a war of coders:

Since I use the objShell var later in the file, should I then set objShell to equal nothing before exiting the Sub?

I just started working with Windows Server Backup on Server 2008 STD x64. I am going to use the Remote Backup feature to back up the data off the other servers on the domain. I am able to connect to the Remote Server fine, but it gives me an error about the destination volume. So if you've used it, maybe I can get some answers. 1. Do I need to install anything on the remote servers in order to be able to back them up? I already created a new Domain User and added it to the Backup Operators group. 2. Is there a size limit to where the backups are going to be kept? Currently we have a storage volume (RAID5) that is 3.7TB in size. It was just formatted today and it is totally empty.

The XML seems to be valid. What does the Panther logs say?

I'm experiencing a problem calling a function with VBScript. This method works: Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") ObjShell.run "cmd /c mbr 0 0 /uh",0,True However, this does not work: Sub confirmation2 Dim A1 :A1 = MsgBox("Recovery Complete, Would you like to Restart now?") If A1 = True Then CreateObject("WScript.Shell").run("cmd /c wpeutil Reboot"),0,True End Sub The MsgBox opens properly, but the command is not run. If I chose to use single quote, as in this: Sub confirmation2 Dim A1 :A1 = MsgBox("Recovery Complete, Would you like to Restart now?") If A1 = True Then CreateObject("WScript.Shell").run('cmd /c wpeutil Reboot'),0,True End Sub It breaks the HTA completely. What is the correct syntax to make a MsgBox run something from ComSpec?

Please attach the XML file and not paste into the post.

1. What kind of problem are you experiencing? 2. Are you trying to use the LAN and WLAN at the same time?

Or WindowBlinds. I can make my Win98 PC look like that too.

There is a concurrent connections setting you can enable on Firefox' config. I've used with and without it and sometimes you can see a difference. First you need to try different browsers. Also try different sites. Those online tests are not very reliable when considering real use download speeds, because the file size is too small. I typically like to test download speeds using DOS FTP. You need to find 2 sites. One inside your ISP's network to download from, and then one from outside, like adobe or something. You want to get files larger than 10MB for test.

Check this out, maybe you posted your code wrong, which is why we recommend you post your XML file as an attachment, but of course edit out your product key. ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Should be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

I'm looking at your DataImage XML example and compare it to my old one, and they do not compare properly. Of course mine was different source (using WDS) but maybe it will help you: I never solved my issue as we went a different way to install Vista and now Windows 7 so we do not need DataImage anymore.

Still nothing on the wireless. Here is what I did: - uninstalled the Air Plus from Add/Remove Programs - installed the 2.00 drivers (no change) - backed up the ntkern.vxd from vmm32 - put the new ntkern.vxd into C:\Windows\System\Vmm32 reboot = no change - put it in c:\windows\options\cabs (found online it needed to be in there too) = no change So still got nothing going on with that. I was hopeful when installing the 2.00 drivers because it actually installed different files than the other versions, notably the HLPs from PCHEALTH folder, but to no avail. I did try to boot into Safe Mode and delete the drivers and see if there were any ghosts in there, but the video flips. For some reason the default video output (used during POST and in the BIOS and Boot Menu) as well as in the Windows F8 menu and Safe Mode is grayscale and the video constantly flips. This is because my video out is S-Video to a television. I keep forgetting to get that extra CRT to hook up to it.