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I am still ocassionally getting this error. I am going to try to recreate it so I can make a note as to what it says. I set up a separate test environment on a DQ45CB board for our other guy to test out. There is a major difference between the Intel board and the Wind. The Wind will recover a sysprepped image. The Intel board will recover an Audit mode image. Also, another annoying this is that sometimes (about as sometimes as the imaging error), the PE doesn't rehide the partition after recovering. This only has happened after a successful recovery, and not during one of those ones that failed. It may also be a "disk not ready" issue, so I'm going to have to add some redundancy into the scripts... Clicking OK reboots the computer. So far it seems like this is the operation of events, and appears to be reproducable. 1. A working model with XP on C and recovery partition hidden. 2. Boot into recovery, run a full recovery (that formats the C drive, or D drive actually) ... wait I found major errors here. First on the Wind, the size that the recovery formats the C drive is wrong. Also on the Intel board, the recovery formats the entire drive, deleting the recovery partition... I can do this manually. What seems to be happening is that when Diskpart creates the partition, initially it is 130GB which is fine, but after reboot it becomes 60GB select disk 0 select vol d delete vol create part pri select part 1 active assign letter=d format fs=ntfs quick exit Afterwards, using list vol I get the following: Volume 0 D NTFS Partition 135 GB Healthy Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 14 GB Healthy Volume 2 E Removable 0 GB No Media then dropped the image. It of course WORKED this time. and go through welcome and let it boot into Windows again. AND NOW IT WORKS. On a side note, while the drive size is correct and XP didn't blow up, the recovery partition has a drive letter assigned to it. I have the PE actually hide the partition TWICE. Once during winpeshl.ini and again in between formatting the partition and imaging. So I have these three scenarios that seem to happen BECAUSE of certain situations. Situation 1 - Windows does not error out before welcome - the system partition size is correct - the recovery partition is not hidden and is assigned a drive letter - I then hide the partition and reboot into recovery Situation 2 - Windows errors out - after reboot into Recovery, diskpart shows the system partition to be 60GB. - run recovery again Situation 3 - Windows does not error out. - the system partition is 60GB in Windows - the recovery partition is hidden These happen in that order each time, never had them work in any other order. If I recovery AGAIN after Situation 3, it loops and it will start at 1 again. I am really stumped.

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you could try renaming your new task manager app you picked to 'taskmgr.exe' and replace the original one. Make sure to back it up first! I don't think 98 will stop you. But if your system locks up, your custom app probably won't work anyways.

I've recently sidestepped to a wireless router at home.

Nero's menu is a lot better that it used to be. I prefer the old complicated version but I have to work with what I have! IMGburn has a lot of options and such that would be confusing to most people I would think.

You probably could, but you will have to research whether they use an unattend on it already or WinRE.

If by "closing" you mean shut down or restart the computer, then no those files won't be there anymore. You need to remount and modify, then commit your changes and unmount.

Are you trying to get integrated sound or a sound card to work? Your topic title doesn't seem to match your post.

If its restarting by itself, then you are likely getting a BSOD and not seeing it. First boot with F8 and disable the automatic restart on system failure. And also, set this up: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130004

Why stop at 2? Even unplugging the network cable brings less risk. I use 2 firewalls, the Windows Firewall and a hardware one.

Hmmm a lot of people seem to post their gender recently... And we don't have too many forums. I know some that have at least 50.

We'll do what we can.

I agree, its pretty bad practices, but it usually only rears its head in small companies. I've been in that type of situation also and it can be pretty tough to figure it out. As for your question, I haven't seen anything quite like that before so I couldn't tell ya.

Riddle me this Batman! I got it all functional at last. This does not work: ObjShell.run "cmd /c x:\windows\system32\diskpart /s x:\windows\system32\full_diskpart.txt",0,True This works: ObjShell.run "cmd /c diskpart /s x:\windows\system32\full_diskpart.txt",0,True Strange... Now I am back to GUI stuff again, and after that figue out a deployment process.

I am sorry but could not comprehend the last sentence. Can you please expand the abbr OP? -- Best Regards, Arun Kumar M. Signed: Friday, June 05, 2009, 12:05:23 PM IST Original Poster. He is looking for software for older people to burn CDs. Likely these people aren't computer literate, so something that isn't very complicated to use, or has too many options you can select would be the best recommendation.

You need to post what PE version you are using.

What are you trying to do with it?

Since you are able to get into Windows with one method, you are going to need to follow these instructions: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130003

Start with this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131887

Yeah I had dug it up some time ago. Right now I've got some "servers" running and there is a Rod Stewart song on the radio.

I use Nero 8.3.2.2. I wouldn't think that multisession discs are something most people deal with. Consider the OP's requirements.

I'm all set right now with the HTA except that I can't get VBScript to launch Diskpart. Diskpart always fails but imagex always works. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=860620

I have only bought Antec cases for my last few PCs. I enjoy case that looks very squarish and no crazy round shapes in there. I like my cars that way too. And anything that has a Futurism look to them, flat, bland, solid colors. I only care about the looks when it comes to a case. I have only bought 2 in the past 10 years so I'm probably not a good mark for this type of discussion.

Settle down there. Its our job to enforce the forum rules or else this place would turn into a madhouse. As for your issue. Take one of the working machines and go into the Internet Properties and the Advanced. Verify that all the settings there are the same as on the non-working one. Also what kind of accounts are used to log into the computers? Does each student/user have their own login? Has there ever been a case when a training fails one day and works the next day on the same computer? Are you on a domain and if so are there any GPOs used that can effect the web browser?

I think that Nero is the easiest to use. All the crazy complicated settings are hidden from the user. IMO the Himat burner is OK but sometimes it can get confusing. Especially since XP likes to randomly change the path displayed from your CD drive letter to the temporary folder path in your user profile.