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It seems odd to me that you would want to use the PE to image a machine with a program designed for the specific purpose of imaging a live OS. Alas, you need to start by figuring out the dependencies of this program. You can use PE Explorer or Depends to determine this. Then verify that all of these files exist within your Win PE boot image. Most of these plugins for other PE solutions are merely to install a program shortcut. If you examine the BartPE plugin, for example, you will find that it does nothing other than allow the execution of the program, although it may make use of cmdline switches. Also, note the documentation on Runtime.org. It refers to the Win PE as a basic version of Windows XP. If we are to take this information by their word, it would mean that they have only tested their software in Win PE 1.x environments. Win PE 2.0 is based upon Vista and not XP. You can extract the CAB file with WinRaR. Then read the dixml_nu2menu.xml file, which shows how it executes the program. I am also experiencing issues trying to get programs designed to work in BartPE (plugins) to work in my custom PE as well. So far I am also unsuccessful.

When you are using the Unmount, are you using the /COMMIT flag?

I believe with this limited amount of info here, being a single error log, you are going to need to run some extra steps. Firstly, you could use the Debugger if you are able to make this crash occur without the computer locking up. Otherwise, I talked to my Exchange admin, and he says any time he experiences an issue with Exchange, Microsoft has him run the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer. Make sure you read any documentation for this tool as I have no experience with it. And I cannot be used as a conduit for more information from the source at my company. You can get this tool here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

1. All images within a specific WIM will use the compression option that was used to capture the image at index 1. You cannot specify different compression ratios for other images also contained in the same file. That being said, the compression method is not stored within the INFO XML file inside the WIM itself. It is stored within the WIM Header. Imagex can read this information (as it can give you errors about the header) but there doesn't seem to be any switches to specifically output that information. 2. It does not appear that any data is saved in the WIM if the /check flag is used during capture. In short, you wouldn't unless you had the ability to log it at the time of capture. 3. The Append flag is used to add additional files into an existing image, in the form of an differential (version controlled) backup. This way you can have 2 (or more) full drive images in a single WIM, but each subsequent image will only contain files that are not in the first index. The Lookup Table in the WIM is an index for each Image and has pointers to the specific files or versions that one specifically uses. The Export flag is used to create a separate WIM file based upon a single image from another WIM file. If you were to export Image at index 2, it would use the Lookup Table to create the new WIM using all of the files it had pointers to. The exported WIM should maintain the same compression format as the original one you are exporting from. 4. The compression method described in #1 are for the Append flag. Hopefully reading #3 will help you understand that Append and Export are entirely different. You can see a brief explanation to all of the flags for Imagex in the Windows PE User's Guide that is installed with the WAIK and/or OPK Tools. You may find the information under Imaging Tools and Reference to be the most helpful. This information is also available on TechNet if you search for it. Here is a link to the WhitePaper that describes the inner workings of the WIM file and its format. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/e...le%20Format.rtf Topics like this should be posted in the Windows PE forum. Check it out if you haven't been there already.

1. Check your event viewer for any errors or warnings that may be related to the usb device. 2. You can run ipconfig -release and then ipconfig -renew once you lose your connection. Here is an example: http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/windows/ipconfig/ 3. Run ipconfig on the computer that is working and write down the IP Address. 4. On the computer that does not work, in the cmd.exe type in 'ping ip' where ip is the address of the working computer. If it works you will see 4 replies. If it does not work you will see 4 Request Timed Out. 5. If you cannot do the ping or you get an error from ipconfig -renew, post what it says. 6. Also you can try unplug and replug in the USB again, instead of rebooting the router or the PC.

I am reading through a new Best Practices document that was delivered to me, and it speaks of using Diskpart to specify an offset for greater disk performance. The problem is, I am not understanding how to determine this information. Offset is a var that can be used in the Diskpart.exe cmdline. Here is some more info: Currently, we do not specify an offset. What do I need to do in order to determine which offset to use? I understand its function and see the example, I just can't find any information about how to figure it out.

Need to know how they are connected. Using a router I hope? Also, need to know if the computer that loses connection, if it can ping the other computer, or if it can renew the IP address, etc. Also if they are wireless or wired.

I'm looking into this as well. I found that it is possible to use this method in Native Mode, and also without screwing around with the current Boot ROM options. For example, currently my servers all boot to the default WDS x86 boot rom file. Now if I wanted to deploy Linux on a machine, how to get it to boot to the PXELINUX rom instead of the WDS one? Well this can be done, but it involves pre-staging the client first. This is something I know how to do, but haven't actually done it yet. You would use the following command: The issue then becomes that you would have to add a few extra steps into your process. If you already have any network inventory solutions in place, you could do this automatically, using a separate network segment. Products that have this ability are certain Cisco appliances, and Altiris, for example. Otherwise you're looking at booting every client first and writing down their MAC Address and then typing it into your server! That's a lot of work! The alternative, however, is that you can build a separate server (or virtually) to just handle Linux deployments, but if that was the case, why both using WDS in the first place? Source: http://blogs.artinsoft.net/jose_aguilar_bl...05/16/1442.aspx

Glad that you worked it out. I've forgot to use that myself at times.

Do you mean concerning current and upcoming hardware?

What changes have you made to the server lately? Using full text indexing? Update any firewall or antivirus software? Are there any dump files created? Also can you post the error data and the event source? The Error Data is in the scroll box and looks like hex code. Make sure to use the quote box when posting. Also, the Event Source is at the top of the Event dialog, I am going to guess it is Application Error, but don't want to just presume that. What service pack for Server 2003, which architecture? What version/SP for Exchange? Does this server handle any other roles besides exchange? On your Domain Controller using AD, what is the host OS? The info you posted also shows a "0" which means your debug option is not set, this is an FYI and not a problem. Did you recently install any updates to Acrobat on the server? What version of Acrobat? PDFL60.dll is part of Adobe Distiller. Also check your RAID logs to make sure you have no integrity issues. I had experienced lock ups with my Server 2003 and it was caused by a degraded RAID5.

Have you checked for any log files or events in Event Viewer? Is the installer using InstallShield or MSIEXEC?

The backspace key acting as "Back" or "Last Container/Item in History" comes from a feature that originated in Internet Explorer. When Windows Explorer became integrated with IE back in the day, this function was carried with it. It is working by design that when you press Backspace, it goes "back." It would be nice to go "up" (or cd .. ) because I use this moreso than back. Can you even do a Folder Up in Vista? I never found out how. I do not know of a way to remap the Backspace key to do a keyboard function that is not currently mapped. Is it possible there is a Ctrl, Alt or Shift key combination that will do this? If so, it may be easier to remap the function.

Greetings, You might like this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67112

update: After merging two threads, the beginning of this is a bit out of whack. My current issue is here, which is post 7 in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=846753 One of my many projects is deploying Vista via PXE. I can deploy it using an Attended setup. I want to make it Unattended, so I built an answer file in WSIM and want to try it out. But I do not know where to put the file! I am not using a VM session or an install DVD. Here is my current config: - There are 2 boot images in WDS, one for Windows PE (winpe.wim) and one for "Windows Longhorn Setup" which was made from the BOOT.WIM on the Vista Business DVD. - There are 7 Install Images in the Vista group that were added from INSTALL.WIM on the Vista Business DVD. So I have my Autounattend.xml for Vista Business but I do not know where to put it. Since when you boot the client with PXE, it loads up the BOOT.WIM, then it prompts to connect to the domain and loads the appropriate version of Vista (based upon the selection screen) from the Install Images in WDS. I tried searching for this but have only found people talking about DVDs and UFDs. I can already do this with that, but not the Server I have set up.

Locking topic, please refer to the one linked by Jaclaz.

Asus seems to make really big, wall mountable, notebooks. If you don't believe me, check it out: http://support.asus.com/default.aspx?SLanguage=en-us After the ASUS logo shows in the flash animation, it switches to a picture of a living room with a large notebook mounted to the wall. What is the world coming to? I thought small was in!

And don't forget, if you want to try the keyboard, you don't always have to use WASD for movement. This seems to be popular, but I find it very easy to hit the wrong keys, so I always use the arrow keys for movement, and change the keys around them for other stuff like reload, switch weapon, croutch, etc. As I mentioned above, I haven't played Fallout 3 yet, but the key layout I used for Oblivion was the same I use for Quake 3 and the same I had used for Doom II.

Settings is an option under Start Menu, under older versions of Windows. There are more than one way to make the appearance of Windows so I think this is causing confusion for you. Whichever way you get to Control Panel is fine, as long as you get there. The instructions he gave you were for Windows XP and lower. Also, if you do not see "Add Hardware" in Control Panel, you need to switch to classic view. The default view hides a lot of icons on you. Here are some web pages that tell you how to add new Hardware in Vista: http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Win...ardware-Wizard/ http://www.theeldergeekvista.com/add_hardware_wizard.htm In my experience, when I installed XP into VPC, it just worked and I didn't have to do anything to it, which was probably closer to your first experience.

That doesn't sound too promising really. Its doubtful you'll be able to fix it without replacing the display. It is possible that the connection is lose inside the notebook. Has this been moved into or out of a very cold or freezing area recently?

It should be: -Display Properties -Appearance Tab -Advanced Button -Selected Items "Item"

Have you tried to see if it is at Driverpacks.net? They have 2 XP Audio driver packages. I can't find any information on your motherboard by the information you gave. You would need to post the model number, and maybe you can find it here: http://www.inno3d.com/support/download_inno3d.html Other promising sites I found on google were in China (.cc?) and are blocked by my firewall.

1. What version of NAV? 2. Have you ever gotten that version to install on a clean Vista x64?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=654397

Typically, I try to use the same keys for all games. The first thing I ever do after installing a new (FPS for example) game is to redo the keys. I can't stand using controllers for FPS, and I am terrible playing games on XBOX or anything else. I use my mouse with really high sensitivity, so I can't stand the sluggishness of controllers.