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You can either have your unattend execute the installer packages silently after install, or you can recreate your source and use DISM to inject the drivers.

Unfortunately, as far as current product goes, no current Intel boards are going to work with 533MHz DDR2. Everything is either 667 or 800. If you want to use your current RAM, you're going to need to look at other brands. Otherwise if you are looking for new RAM, definately get something with DDR3. Good examples would be any of the Intel X series boards which use DDR2, and can make use of a Quad Core or Xeon CPU. Here are a few boards I've dealt with: http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=41162,42486,36888,33394,

I got it working in the end, turns out I had to drop a copy of Autounattend.xml into boot.wim image #2, and it works now, along with my custom backgrounds et al That is interesting, but I don't think it will help me.

OK thanks. Currently I am now in info collecting mode. My company decided to sell off the machines I was using to create the image! This is a common occurance lol. So I'm in waiting mode until I get another machine to test on.

The C: is the leftover System partition from Win7. You need to FDISK or remove all partitions with the XP CD. However, just because your XP is in D: (or the second part) it shouldn't make your HDD louder or slower.

Well if you want to do it for your own stuff, that is fine. If you want to make the information available to others, you can post it here. However you cannot redist .NET Framework on MSFN (or anywhere) so you can only post instructions of how to do it, and where to download the required files from Microsoft.com and/or where to get other files from the OS.

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I am also having problems getting WinRE to "install" with an unattend. The only difference is that I am approaching it differently than you. When I figure it out, I will try to help but I cannot gaurantee anything. PS: by "help" I mean anything found on technet or social.

I'm not sure about your question. WinPE 3.0 does not support .NET Framework, similar to the previous versions.

Your command is missing a bit. You need to specify more information in order to mount a WIM. Example: DISM /MOUNT-WIM /WIMFILE:C:\WINPE_X86\ISO\SOURCES\BOOT.WIM /INDEX:1 /MOUNTDIR:C:\WINPE_X86\MOUNT

I do not get a Toolbar option under View either. I do get a Toolbar option if I right-click on the taskbar tho.

I think the OP is thinking of old SCSI where if you put a SCSI 2 drive on a FAST SCSI 2 controller, you could smoke the drive because the (cheap) cards back then weren't smart enough to know the device couldn't support the write speed of the controller. I think most tech nowadays is a little smarter than back then.

I was going to ask this! Network share always prompts you as it is an Untrusted Zone. What I end up doing (to get past this issue) is to copy the installer files to the HDD and then have the installs run from there. The local machine is a trusted zone, and should not prompt you to run the programs. Of course, I copy the installers over before the machine boots and write a registry key so the programs load when the Desktop loads.

You should be able to boot a WinPE 2.0 partition with just the boot.ini and not have to worry about BCD. However, I am wondering why your PE is running as FAT32 and not NTFS... Anyways the only other problem might be that the WinPE partition would need to be marked as Active in order for it to boot. I believe I ran into this problem a few years ago, however I was using Terrabyte Lab's MBR programs to unhide a WinPE partition, mark it active and then boot to it. And then later, after rebooting from the WinPE partition, you need to mark it as inactive and mark a different volume as active. At least that is how I did it, but also only with 2 partitions.

I've seen it both ways where you get the on-screen warnings and when you don't. You get the Event Viewer warnings in both cases. If you want to keep using Windows 7 on this PC you should Activate it. Otherwise if you encounter any problems and need help with them, we may be less inclined to help you because the machine is not activated. This is because there is no real way to determine if any programs are malfunctioning because of the limited state that Windows is in. I am going to wager to say that most of us are less experienced in a non-activated Windows 7 system than an activated one.

Right, if it is off screen, try opening Notepad first. Then if you use ALT+TAB, you should see it in the switch list. Select it, even if you can't see it, you can use keyboard shortcuts to move it. Off the top of my head it would be ALT+SPACE (which opens the root window menu), then press M (the Move Windows option) and then hold the LEFT ARROW (<-) or RIGHT ARROW (->) down for about 5 seconds to see if the prompt moves to where you can see it. All that courtesy of me using a Windows 98 PC for 6 months without a mouse.

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Welcome. This is the intro forum. No technical posts here. I'll leave your other one in the intro forum, but moving this to XP unattend. Make sure to read the forum rules, and do not make more than one topic for the same thing.

Welcome. This is the intro forum. No technical posts here. I'll leave your other one in the intro forum, but moving this to XP unattend. Make sure to read the forum rules, and do not make more than one topic for the same thing.

To me, that's "new-fashioned"

I'm guessing you want to run this from WinPE... Using WMI, you should be able to detect a USB Drive better than searching all drive letters for something. Especially if you come across any machines that have a card reader and is detected and assigned a letter. However, the Disk "number" depends on the enumeration the hardware sends the data to WinPE. So you are going to need to take care of the fact that the USB Key will not always be disk 1. If you can get your script to return the drive letter as a variable, you can use SELECT VOL C where C is the drive letter. Also, you are probably going to want to make a diskpart.txt file, the call diskpart /s diskpart.txt. Because, for example, this as a batch file won't exit diskpart which will screw up the rest of it likely.

1. Moved Timezone out of oobeSystem and into Specialize pass. 2. Added Locale info to oobeSystem pass 3. Moved specialize pass to before oobeSystem (for easier reading) See attached. Notes: - I hope this works, might need more tweaking - I cannot find locale code for en-uk, so I used en-us for InputLocale. autounattend.test.xml

Hey I'm new to this unattend stuff! Anyways, is there a way to set up a machine either physically, local security policy or unattend for the following things? - pin a shortcut to the start menu - customize Start Menu things like: show run, enable Devices and Printers, do not show Music - custom wallpaper This needs to be for ALLUSERS. This is because I set the machine up in Audit, then sysprep.xml creates a user but these settings are not retained on the new account.

Sorry... I forgot to mention those two, but you're absolutely right! You are also forgetting about the excitement and anxiety you feel when you turn your newly "fixed" or "modified" thing on for the first time. Remember all those times you hit the button and then dive under the table, only to have nothing happen? What a rush! Helpful tip: Just make sure someone else is there in case something goes wrong. As we say at work "Man the fire extinguisher!"

Hi unong! Welcome to the MSFN!