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You can do this with DISKPART. Also your recovery partition may have used custom MBR information, so its is possible you won't be able to unhide it very easily.

I think it does. Can I use my VHD from VPC 2007 with VirtualBox or do I have to start all over again?

Did you look under Add/Remove Windows Components? I am not familiar with desktop search.

I am wondering if using the UNC path adds additional SMB traffic with the data. You can also to a file copy from a command prompt using xcopy to see if you get a faster speed.

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I am wondering why your Win PE is so large. Mine is under 200MB. Mine has some custom HTA stuff, a Burn program and only NIC and Intel RAID drivers installed. What else are you putting in yours to make it so big? Are you putting a WIM inside your PE WIM? Also, let me add that with my small PE, it still won't run on anything smaller than 512MB RAM. You might be running into a memory situation there.

You could make a copy of cmd.exe and rename it something else. That way your two batch files will use different process names. EDIT: actually, you may wish to script your batch files with another program, such as AUTOIT or KIXSTART which will not use CMD.EXE as their process.

You have a few options really. 1. You could use a different program to give the display effects you want. An example is one of the products of Object Desktop. Otherwise you could use a separate EXE or DLL and change your icons manually. 2. You could deny write access (NTFS permissions) to shell32.dll by the SYSTEM account, but be warned that you may experience other errors or BSODs because of this.

I am worried about the Drive Letter Access BHO. You need to verify that everything is normal when connecting physically via ethernet. HTJ logs aren't much to me anymore.

I may have had something related. Firstly, because the network I am on is still mostly XP Pro clients, I use Group Policy to disable the Link-Layer Topology Mapping on the Vista Clients and also on the server. In addition, I had disabled a GPO on the Local Policy for the server which can be viewed here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=122871 This may help you. For me, it represented an upload (to the server) cap that I had to overcome.

It is good you got help from us. Make sure you don't desert us!

I'm not the kinda guy who gives up things for lent, but this made me laugh. I was at the drug store today and a woman was ahead of me in the line to checkout. Her husband was not in line but seemed to be looking for impulse buys. He says: "They have a sale on Butterfingers, want me to get you some?" and the woman's response was "No, remember, I gave up those for lent." o_O

It is easy to find some free samples. Try this place seems legit. http://www.mcmcse.com/comptia/network/networkplus.shtml

Other websites say that there is a log file you can read for more info. https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...re-ftpd-148309/

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I have Virtual PC running on a Server 2003 Standard x32, and the OS in the session is Windows XP Pro SP2. The video card in the computer is nVidia GeForce 4 MX 4000, but in the VM it shows up as VM Additions S3 Trio 32/64. If I run DXDIAG it says it supports DirectDraw but not Direct3D. It comes down to this, it can run some games such as Midtown Madness Demo, Motorcross Madness demo, but it can't run Carmageddon 2 demo. Is there any drivers available or a way to get Direct 3D to work in this situation?

Full Recovery diskpart script has been completed. After booting into the recovery partition, the VOL and PART info is the same, but the drive letters are switched. Also, the PE does load up in a RAMDISK. Image redeployment takes about 5 minutes, but I am going to put up a progress timer for about 7 minutes. diskpart select disk 0 select vol 0 delete vol create part pri size=62220 select part 1 active assign letter=d format fs=ntfs quick Now with diskpart, we assign the letter D to the drive that will be C. On the reboot, the correct letters appear. Also in addition to running the MBR reset, I also need to reapply the hidden value to the recovery partition or else it becomes visible in Windows. My task now will be to create the GUI and figure out Projector settings. I am using Flash right now for testing, and to keep me in some sort of practice using it. Not sure if we will end up using it at all, or using a different app instead. I made this thread thinking it would be more involved or harder than this. I am surprised really.

What is the size of the USB key and what file system did you format it as?

Yes, I believe this script is in the link I provided also.

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, I may be unable to provide any source code or code examples. If any code examples are posted in response to any of my issues, I cannot post whether or not I had used them or not in my program. I have restarted my attempts to create a recovery partition using Windows PE. I have been successful (at last) getting the recovery partition to be bootable, and those details are here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130609 On my eval unit, the recovery partition contains the contents of the winpe_x86\ISO folder on my Technician PC. The technician PC, aka UNCLESOCKS, specs can be see in the "my servers" link in my signature. My PE has all extra packages installed (as with my other PE versions) with a couple of additional items: - Flash Projector EXE as the GUI - AutoIT EXEs in the fscommand folder for full.exe, repair.exe, restart.exe and admin.exe. - MBR.EXE (this also must exist in the main image) - Recovery.wim (the image of the drive) Full.exe will clean Partition 1, redeploy recovery.wim. Repair.exe leaves the disk alone and just redeploys the wim. restart.exe will restart the computer using wpeutil reboot. admin.exe is an authentication wrapper to grant access to the command prompt. I felt it best that this could be used by technicians to do any advanced PE commands, but also so that the end-user does not have this ability. So if you type in the correct password, you get the command prompt. If you type in the wrong password, it displays an error. The credentials are encrypted into the EXE itself and not stored on the system in any other way. Current Tasks 1. Need to determine which mix of commands for DISKPART is needed to reimage the © hard drive without damaging the recovery partition. When you boot into the recovery partition, it becomes the C drive (instead of X drive common with Win PE). I could accomplish this if I can make it so the Win PE boots using a different drive letter, or by examining the partition information in my next round of testing. 2. Currently, the repair (and full) options will attempt to restart the computer after deploying the image. Unfortunately, this is called using AutoIT's RUNWAIT function, and for some reason the computer attempts to restart before the image is deployed. I will have to remove this option. 3. The Projector (while it is 1024x768) does not open maximized and you can still see the command prompt behind it. I need to make this take up the entire screen. 4. I need to disable ALT+TAB options, which I should be able to do via the Win PE registry or by using ActionScript within the Projector.

I got it to work, and also know why the attributes were being assigned to both volumes. This happened because the partition table is set up as MBR and not the GUID method. Terrabyte Unlimited has a tutorial (of sorts) to set up a recovery partition. They also have a second revision. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=277 I had to do some additional commands with MBR.EXE also. These in the image phase: mbr 0 /install selm 5 11 "Press F11 for recovery" 0xC 0x1C mbr 0 1 /h The second, sets the second partition to hidden, so it does not appear in Windows. It still appears in DISKPART but it does not display the HIDDEN attribute, but it is still hidden anyways. Also have to add this to the boot process of the OS on the recovery partition: mbr 0 /reset This makes it so after you reboot from the recovery partition, it sets it back to being hidden and makes the first partition active, to allow you to boot into Windows again. For now I am working on getting my custom software to work off the recovery partition, and for that I will make a post in the Windows PE forum.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D...78E6/SMBIOS.doc This is in German, but he code examples are in English. You could also try dropping msinfo32 into your PE to see if it can read the information as well.

OK I found out why the C drive wouldn't boot. Diskpart showed both Vol 0 and Vol 1 to be HIDDEN NODEFAULTDRIVELETTER. So I clear those attributes on Vol 0 (Drive C) and it cleared it on both volumes. I assigned a letter to Vol 0 (C:) and Vol 1 (D:) but for some reason if I mark Vol 1 as HIDDEN, both volumes get marked HIDDEN. And yes, I am using sel vol 0 and sel vol 1. So at this point, neither of the above MBR commands allow it to find the second partition.

Its not that it doesn't allow it, but that isn't its function. It is meant for the clients, not for the server.

I am not certain. I do not have access to a Win PE 1.x source to play with.