Tripredacus

The best thing is to just not post anymore. Log out and delete the MSFN cookies and its like you aren't here anymore.

What's up with that picture?

I don't think it is available in a large size. One of the other mods had made a custom logo that we never used, and I'm sure that was a large size. I'll have to see if I can track it down.

LOL....awesome how you cant update Vista images with WAIK 7. They should have made them universal. I complained about it to my MS rep, and they forwarded the request along. Hopefully an update comes out to handle it.

It is possible to corrupt a WIM. I've certainly done it before. Try to use imagex to export a the WIM out, it may fix some of these problems. Have you tried say, deleting a file in one of those places, then look to see if the file still exists in the "duplicate" location?

A few things, 1. Make sure you are using DISM from the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt, and not the regular command prompt. 2. make sure you have full control permissions on the directory your MOUNT folder is in, as well as the location of the WIM file you mounted. 3. Make sure to run the prompt in #1 as Administrator. It looks like you are running this on Vista right?

I am wondering where you got this ISO from or how you created it.

What do you mean "before MS took it over"? Some research was done at the time of this project (now abandoned): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5308&hl= jaclaz I remember finding a draft about the WIM format awhile back and it wasn't a Microsoft document. I'll try searching for it tomorrow, I might still have it.

This seems to be a good topic, so I pinned it for now! B)

I believe the earlier WIM related whitepapers spoke of using this format for archival purposes. Somehow now people only use it for Windows! Its a great system because of how it indexes files. Its basically an incremental zip file. Of course you don't have any version control, and easy to replace a file by accident. Limited features provided by Imagex or DISM, I wonder if there are any tools from before Microsoft took it over?

I'd certainly hope so!

I have not seen this before. How did you make this one?

The current code in this is still the same as v7.1 except for the code changes mentioned in this thread. So the progress bar code is still incorrect, and as such, does not work for anyone. So its not your error, no one sees the progress bar. It is good enough to see the square, on some video cards/motherboards, no rectangle appears at all! Anyways, you will know when it is done because it shows you a prompt after applying the image.

No unfortunately you can't service a Vista image with the 7 WAIK. At first, I got around this by using Win7 Tools on my main Server and put Vista Tools on another one. Eventually I ended up putting my WinPE 2.x boot images into retirement and created all new WinPE 3.0 images for deployment. But no, now I have Vista images (or even XP) that I can't do anything with besides regular image maintenance like mount/unmount and export/delete. I cannot put drivers into Vista images, so if I need to make one I have to use my unattend DVD each time. I still have some generic SP1 images I can use, but early on somehow I corrupted my Vista Ultimate image with DISM and had to delete it. As far as my job goes, Vista was never very popular, and once Windows 7 went RTM no one wants Vista, so I kinda lucked out. Its actually funny now, if I see a system come through with Vista on it, I go and make sure someone didn't make a mistake!

The WinPE you created is the boot image.

Ghost 7.5 can clone drives exactly as well. Anything that does a sector copy should do it. Ghost also copies the MBR and boot sector too.

Well the things that DISM can't do, Technet seems to say use Imagex.exe for those. For example, DISM does not have an export WIM option. That part was on a different page I looked up. I wonder why they keep Imagex around, or maybe some day in the future DISM will totally replace it?

WinPE assigns it that letter. By default it has no drive letter. WinPE isn't too smart, because it will assign drive letters to anything it can when the system enumerates the volumes. That's why it also does things like assign letters to the USB Bus on some notebook models!

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I've never ran CHKDSK on a UFD in Vista or 7. I know it prompts me to but I tell it not to. Is this what you mean? I've never had a time when it just runs without telling me. I wasn't able to search for anything but I'll look around in the registry. This might end up being the wrong forum for this post unless I'm not understanding you. This site seems to say you can change a registry setting to exclude volumes from being checked when you insert them. But the reason it wants to scan seems to be that when you plug in the drive, Windows writes something on there. Then if you choose Safely Remove Hardware, this program is supposed to remove that peice. It is that bit which Windows uses to see if it "needs" to run chkdsk on a volume. http://www.infocellar.com/winxp/chkdsk-and-autochk.htm

It sounds like your files are there but it just can't boot. There is a command you can use from the PE, bootsect I think? I've never had to use it myself.

Well I typically do not use the info on Technet. I just read the CHMs that are part of the install. But sometimes I will post a link to Technet because I can't post the info from the OPK CHMs, there is a little difference. I remember reading it in WAIK for Vista before I had to stop using it.

In Windows 7 WAIK, DISM does not do everything. Some functions such as Export are still done with Imagex. imagex /export D:\imaging\data.wim 1 D:\imaging\sample.wim DISM /Cleanup-Wim I believe after you export the WIM, you mount the image with DISM before running the cleanup. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744382%28WS.10%29.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799302%28WS.10%29.aspx

You can try analyze it yourself using the Debugger tools for Windows. You also need to get the symbols for your OS. Even then it can be confusing if you don't know what you are looking at. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx If you can upload the dump file, there are a couple users here that can read it for you.

I never played WoW and haven't played CS since 2000.