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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!"

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Make a copy of your XML, edit out the product key and any other confidential info (like domains, usernames, support phone numbers, etc) and make a reply here and attach it to your post. Please do not just paste it in a reply.

I played a fair amount of GTA IV online yesterday. The free mode is the best for me. The recent update added Police response which is kinda neat unless you're trying to do tricks and they keep smashing into you. I got up to a 4 stars when they bust out the SWAT team on you. An interesting this is that now the cops can go after the other players and I have to double check my map and make sure they are not after me. I also found some new things to do thanks to the other players in the game. I had the distinct feeling that those two guys were able to talk to each other and I couldn't.

This happens to us constantly, but we just ignore it. Our computers do not have access to the internet. We do a BIOS update and set the time, then in Windows we have it set to GMT -5 and the time is ALWAYS an hour off. I'm not really sure why this is, but they correct themselves once they connect to the time server.

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Well unfortunately it is not that easy. I just booted up the PC the image was captured from and it errored out as well. So the generalize on same hardware did it also. However, my tests on other systems have proven that the problem is not with the sound driver and/or generalize. For record keeping purposes, here is the newest driver: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18658&ProdId=2933〈=eng Which is already the one that is installed during deployment, as this is injected into the WIM. Here are a list of changes to the Master Image before Sysprep /generalize was run. I am wondering if any of these settings could have done something to the driver? It might be impossible to tell! Stuff I did 1. Set network to Public to enable Firewall 2. Turn off remote assistance 3. Turn on RDP but for any client (the middle option) 4. Set a static IP address What the client did via RDP 5. Installed 4, 3 I can't list and 1 is Acrobat Reader 9.3 minus Google Toolbar. 6. Installed a printer driver (note, no printers are attached) 7. Set a wallpaper and created and saved a theme* 8. Created a shortcut on Public Desktop to a file that was copied over 9. Changed Folder Options to show file ext for known file types. 10. Changed to Details view for all folders. 11. Changed Start Menu properties concerning what items show up. What I did after they disconnected 12. unplugged cable from NIC 13. Set IP and DNS to obtain automatically 14. Disabled RDP 15. ran sysprep and then captured the image So here are my questions. Is it possible that any of the following uses could cause a problem: RDP or installing a printer driver? It IS possible that one of the other programs are causing the problem, however I am not sure if the client installed through Programs and Features. They are also aware that sysprep cannot set a theme (setting is depecrated) but they saved it to be chosen later. Oh I forgot to say, basically the original image is busted so I'm already having to start over. Update1 I have found the culprit. It is caused ONLY when a Crystal Reports viewer is installed. I cannot determine if this is an official product or developed in house. I did notice it's installer package tried to backdate ATL.DLL and MSVCP60.DLL but Windows 7 did not let the installer replace those files. I verified they were the correct version afterwards. Now as to why this program is doing this, I have no idea.

I'll keep that info in mind, but as noted above, I can't recreate the issue using a duplicate system. Its only with the one system, but I am wondering if sysprep is doing additional steps when the image is being put onto a "different" hardware.