Tripredacus

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Hopefully someone will invent a time machine or something!

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That shows you one reason why I don't like Logitech! If there is no sound device in the Audio properties, verify that it shows up in Device Manager. It may be flagged, or not showing up at all. If it does not show up at all, you may check the BIOS to see if the audio is enabled.

@Jaclaz, no so much NDA related but more that I do not want to damage our relationship. All of the information I have were from using their software, attempting to image it, and attempting to duplicate the MBR so that we could image with Imagex. No information was provided to me from SoftThinks, other than what our sales rep knows about it, since there is a "glass ceiling" of sorts when it comes to their support department. And that ceiling goes higher if you purchase more products. Unfortunately, we don't move nearly as many units with this software as HP and Dell, so they get preferential treatment over us "little" guys. Yep , but from the given links it seems like a "sp" can be downloaded from HP that contains the "mbrinst.exe" that should be able to re-create the "special" MBR. jaclaz There's some heavy duty knowledge required for that tool. Its little documentation states that you can backup, restore and import new MBR codes onto a drive, but it doesn't work that way. For example, using the tool by itself (it has a GUI if run from a PE) or the CLI and any of the documented switches, it CANNOT read the full MBR that contains the recovery information. As you can see in one of the other threads linked above, it always comes back with not being able to find the recovery partition. I had left myself at the idea that there must be other switches, or the one you download is a slimmed down version meant for the end-user. I was able to recreate a recovery partition with Win PE 2.0 in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130645 Using the MBR.EXE program to install a custom MBR, but it does not support everything that the SoftThinks software does. As noted before, in addition to the F11 (or F10) option, there are other things it puts in there. One is the key used to install the license, so since I couldn't recreate that, I couldn't use any of the MBR programs I found. Interestingly enough, MBRINST seemed to do the job, but there was no documentation on how to use the blasted thing! 1 - Apparently2 - Should be able to create Recovery Disks; don't know about F11 function. 3 - If Active, theoretically should work same as #2; also don't know about the F11 Simply "blowing away" the non-Recovery (via diskpart. or any other method) and setting the Recovery (the only partition left) to Active should get you booted into Recovery, which should set your Installation (after Restore) to Factory (just like when purchased). This definitely works and have used it before (as long as Recovery Partition is intact and its 512-byte Boot Record is unaltered - SPECIAL BOOT). The F11 "trick" is just a way to get into "special boot code" (like many Boot Managers) to get you booted into the Recovery Partition (ignoring the Active Partition bit in Partition Type byte). HTH (Did this on HP/Compaq XP Home SP1; corrections, folks?) You may find it interesting that the Recovery Partition is also capable of creating the recovery media. By this I mean, boot into the recovery partition (if you can that is) and the software is fully able to create recovery media! The only problem is if you don't have a License Key (its a physical device you connect via USB) or the CD Builder, you won't be able to use it because you see the end-user GUI. And in HP's case, as I noted before, they get to have a super custom version, so there is no way to tell what other goodies they are hiding in there! Also, I want to reiterate that Diskpart does not see the Recovery partition like it sees the system partition. Some of the settings for the volume are determined by the MBR, not by the information that Diskpart can see. For example, the fact that the volume is hidden is in the MBR, but Diskpart won't say it is hidden. If you try to hide it (and/or unhide it again) with diskpart, you get a situation where either the computer won't boot into Windows (STOP error and also have seen it not be able to find any partitions) or you can't boot into the recovery partition anymore. This is also true of the volume getting a drive letter. So I wouldn't use diskpart on the recovery partition unless you have the ability to test it out before doing it on your life system. This would mean ghosting it and sticking it in a VM or something? And lastly, also remember that if you do a full recovery, you'll lose all of your data. It may fix all of your issues but just make sure you're cool with that.

I believe that MDT is licensed for corporate use?

Its probably an online installer, meaning your computer has to be on the internet to install the SP.

Your URL got truncated somehow, so no one here can click on it. Anyways, here you go! XP SP1a Danish: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...d0-c6a43430f12a

Welcome to the MFSN!

Their front end looks hauntingly familiar... It loaded for me.

You need to specify how you load your Win PE next.

I merged your two topics, since they are directly related. Concerning your error, are you using the 64bit installer or the 32bit installer? If you have made an amd64 Windows PE, you should stick to 64bit software only.

This is correct. In addition, the scratch area is only available on Ramdisk builds. Treat it like a computer's actual RAM (since this is where it lives), so if you happen to put any files on the ramdisk (x:) and reboot, you will lose any of that information. You cannot permanently save any data to the X drive unless you use offline servicing on your WIM.

Greetings Taco Bell, welcome to MSFN. Are you the same Taco Bell who responded to my BurnInTest question elsewhere? I'll take a look at w32tm and see if I can get it to do anything in my environment.

I am having some issues with a client unattend.xml. When I boot into the installer, I get the following message: I rechecked the answer file in WSIM in the validator and get the following errors: - The specified setting InstallImage does not exist - The specified setting ImageSelection does not exist Both of these items fall within the Microsoft-Windows-Setup component, which is here: <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <WindowsDeploymentServices> <Login> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <Credentials> <Username>username</Username> <Domain>shark</Domain> <Password>password</Password> </Credentials> </Login> <InstallImage> <ImageName>Windows Vista BUSINESS</ImageName> <ImageGroup>Vista</ImageGroup> </InstallImage> </WindowsDeploymentServices> <DiskConfiguration> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Size>20480</Size> <Extend>false</Extend> <Type>Primary</Type> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Extend>true</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>system</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </DiskConfiguration> <ImageSelection> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </InstallTo> </ImageSelection> </component> The ImageName and ImageGroup match those specific setting in the WDS Snap-in. What is the cause of this error?

Well that is likely because everyone in the world thinks everyone that plays Fallout 3 plays it on Xbox 360. Those points are the virtual dollars used to "buy" downloads on Microsoft Xbox Live. For the PC, this looks to be the link: http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Live/.../AboutLive.aspx I can't get to Bethsoft.com to read any official info about it, because the Barracuda eats that URL.

Lets start out. First you need to tell us what virus you had, and where you got your remover from. Also what anti-virus is installed on your computer if any. You can combat your other issues separately. For the sound issue, check: - in the Sound CPL in Control Panel, make sure volume is up and not muted. - make sure your sound card is working properly in Device Manager. Also, is your computer on a workgroup or a domain? Is this a work or personal computer?

I've never been too concerned with boot times and RAID controllers, because I only use RAID controllers in servers. Boot time isn't super critical because if I am constantly rebooting the server, then something is wrong.

Thanks for your reply Tripredacus, What do you mean by recreating???do you mean formatting the partition and updating the partition table? You will not have the ability to recreate the partition. I have this ability because I use the SoftThinks software on a daily basis, which includes the ability to create recovery partitions. I can't get into the specifics with you, unfortunately.

I have not seen any documentation to show that the PE supports suspend states or transitions.

The stock model for this specific computer specs at 256MB RAM. You will need at least 512MB of RAM in order to make use of Win PE 2.0 or higher. If this doesn't answer your problem, please provide the following: 1. How much RAM 2. How you are loading the PE, is it from a CD or PXE?

Well perhaps this is supported after all? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...695.aspx#BKMK_3 I split my unattend file into two peices. One with the Windows PE pass goes into WDSClientUnattend, while the rest of it gets attached to my image. I'm confused about where to put the UserData, specifically the ProductKey. Does it get applied during the Windows-PE pass or a different one? I have multiple different examples, including our DVD Autounattend, and it is in different places.