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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.

I has a questions: Are you on a private network? Like a school or on a W/LAN that has other people accessing the internet? If you are behind a router, MSFN (or actually IPB in general) may read you as being a different user coming from the same IP address. This may also happen if you are using a Proxy Server.

There is a different thread for this HTA on WinPE 3. It is here:

Yes you need full quotes. If I remember (today was an insane day) I will report this error to my TAM. Anyways, a disclaimer, I do not use Technet or the WAIK documentation, I only use the OPK documentation.

Well it still has its uses, but I don't use it for image modification.

Please post your Operating System.

There is no current fix for the Progress Bar in WinPE 2.x. The PE does not have the ability to tell you the progress. If you want to write new code to try to make it work, be my guest, however a WinPE 3.0 implementation would be a better option.

Progress bar info:

Heroes of Might and Magic V! Now that I am using a PC at home with no video card, I was having problems finding a game to play. I only have integrated graphics, which is 256MB Intel controller. Heroes V did not work until I installed DirectX 9, which is odd I have DirectX 11 you'd think a 9 game would work out of the box. Well it seems to work ok.

Some questions from me, probably not an answer but maybe it triggers something... 1. Do both servers have private IP addresses? For example, I am thinking that your Cable Modem gets a Public IP, then the router gets an IP from the modem. 2. Are you using either the router or modem in Bridge mode? I do not know if the modem supports this or if Optimum has locked this feature. I am thinking that you cannot RDP into both machines at once because they use the same port. Did you try changing the port used for RDP on the second machine?

Ohhhh you were using GImageX to do your mounting. I've only use DISM but I heard that "Tool" thing is pretty neat.

Hmm maybe the problem is you are using Imagex to do your mount and unmount? Why aren't you using DISM for everything?