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If you have Vista installed, then you should use BCD to allow the boot into the PE. There many posts about using BCD, both in here and the Unattended Vista forum. Take a look around and see if you can find something that suits you. My method of booting into the PE is with an XP partition. I haven't tested this with Vista yet. Ah, another project for me!

After I mount the WIM, I usually put any "tools" (aka programs I want in there) in the Windows folder.

Geezery! I got another feature idea! I do most of my image administration from within the PE and not the server. It would be handy if, in the main display of the images within the wim, that the image index number is also displayed. Currently, all images are arranged alphebetically by their image description. This means that the images are not in order based upon their index (the order they were captured/appended) value. It is easier to perform image maintenance with the image index, especially if there are long image descriptions. Also, if you have a lot of images, it would be easier to acquire the image index value, otherwise I have to use the following: imagex /info z:\xp_intel.wim > c:\wim_info.xml This has to be done because sometimes the XML information is more than be fit into the PE Command Prompt window.

That code post reminds me of this old Civil War wargame I used to play on my 486.

OK I think I need to better understand your set up. Please respond to the following questions: 1. The computer that loses the connection, is it the one connected to the USB or to the Ethernet? 2. What is the make and model of your router? 3. What is the make and model of the "livebox"? 4. Is the Livebox connected to the router? If you can post a link to the product page for questions 2 and 3, that will be helpful Also, for further troubleshooting, please with-hold any information relating to the computer that is not having this problem.

It appears right now there is a problem between the PC and the modem. Your concerns may be valid or justified, but try not to give the OP too much stuff to work on at first.

I'll take a look at that spreadsheet in a little bit. As far as the article, I've seen things like that also, that specify the /align flag, but the document refers to setting the /offset tag. The document falls under NDA (Non-Disclose Agreement) Rules, and is in Beta/Draft stage. This is the rules from Microsoft, not from my company. They provided this doc to us. I cannot post anything about it, not even the name. Sorry. The document speaks directly regarding Windows 7, Vista SP2 and 2008 SP1. An idea that the image should be applied to the outmost part of the disk as possible, as that is where data starts to be read. This is comparative to how a record (LP) works, as opposed to how a CD or DVD is read, which is from the inside out.

So a summary is that you have the same symptoms with different NICs? Also you have tried new cable and new modem. 1. When you lose connection, and it says media disconnected, check to see if your Link Lights are on both the NIC and the modem. 2. When you lost connection but not media disconnected, do a ping to your modem. 3. Is this cat5 or cat6 cable? 4. Check the environment that your network cable runs. Make sure no transformers around it (like a subwoofer). 5. Check the power setup for the modem. If the modem is on a high utilisation circuit, you could experience a small brown-out for the modem and not know it, but enough to drop the connection. 6. Make sure the modem and cable are not getting hot. I know some modems get very warm, or if you have another thing that gets warm right next to it. This is a hard situation. I would rather think your video card is a separate issue entirely, but you should make a new post just for that issue, so as not to confuse the two.

Sorry for late reply. I would like to comment that using XP 32 bit I had no problems at all with scripting SAPI with AutoIt or VBScript. Under Vista 32 Bit is little joy as the sound drivers that I have are not good in certain sound generation methods used. I use the Creative card and drivers that are not quite there yet for the card that i have. Perhaps some similar issues is your recognition of disappointment with using scripts to using SAPI? For me, the UDF by itself was not a good enough problem. I eventually disabled that feature of my program because it had certain memory leaks. For example, sometimes it would play sound, sometimes it would lock up the computer or the sound would skip. It was because my program did not give the ability to stop playing the audio, so there was no control of it. Another thing, you couldn't close my program until the sound stopped playing, or end process caused instability or sound wouldn't work anymore until a reboot. I do not have the source code handy that I used, it has been archived to DVD a while ago.

Thanks. I am not using a DVD. Let me post some pictures of my environment: These are the boot images in WDS: These are the install images in WDS: These are the install images in Explorer:

Yes i have succesly done it in vistax32 but that dosen't work for me in Vista x64.. In order to work on 64bit media, your Technician PC must have a 64bit operating system installed. Also, if swedish (it shouldn't matter) but make sure you have that support installed in your OS also.

Make sure that you have the show hidden files and folders option selected, as well as uncheck the Hide Proctected Operating System files to see if they show up again.

Check out this section? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=40

What version of Windows? Are you logged in as administrator? What version of DirectX is installed? Did you install the same version of the DirectX SDK as the version of DirectX on your machine? This file is for 32bit Windows only. This DLL does the same on my computer. I am running Server 2003 Standard x86, which I know does not properly work with DirectX.

Use: net use /? to obtain help. Please try to be more helpful. This is an example of my use of this command: net use z: \\server\share Password /user:UserName Full documentation here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490717.aspx

You need to have official access to the OPK Tools in order to redistribute Windows PE. WAIK is licensed for corporate/enterprise use only, such as an IT department within a company. A requirement of this is you need to be within the OEM Channel, and ISV or SA level accounts. I do know that my company is licensed to redistribute the Windows PE, but I do not have access to other licensing items. We use the Windows PE for recovery or deployment only, which is its purpose. It does not appear to be licensed for any other purpose. Read this here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15894

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.