Tripredacus

I believe in order to make registry changes to the PE, you need to mount the image, then mount the offline registry hive and make changes that way. I haven't actually tried this yet but it is the only thing I can think of.

There is a lot of information here you can make use of. ImageX (the program used to make WIM files) is an imaging program, and not setup program. I do not believe that anyone has been able to capture an unattended install of XP as a WIM yet. I've tried and so far I have been unsuccessful as to making it work properly. You can make a WIM of an XP installation, but it is hardware dependent, although it is possble to make it more open to redeployment onto other hardware besides what it was captured on. Make sure to check out the WinPE and XP Deployment sections of this forum.

I am guessing that you (or something) changed a setting on the desktop. Make sure that File and Printer Sharing is still enabled, that you haven't changed any authentication settings (such as disable/delete the Guest account), didn't require a password or anything relating to user accounts. Verify that the share still exists and doesn't require a password.

It is possible that the driver on the CD has support for Vista while the driver on the website does not. The same story goes for the Creative X-Fi PCI Express card where the drivers on the CD work but the ones on the website do not. When you try to install the driver from the CD, does it give you a warning about the driver? I would not recommend using the one from the website at all. I would imagine that it plain out won't accept that one.

Bandwidth statistics will only be available from the router itself, presuming it has that feature. As far as what websites are visited, you are looking at Windows level audit/logging option. You are going to need to read up on your router, and/or log into its internal page to see what logging it does. Typical Linksys wireless routers, for example, usually only show DHCP information, but I don't have one of those to tell you for sure.

It sounds like the computer is attempting a network boot as it's first device instead of the hard drive. Do you have a network cable plugged into it? Also when it boots, see if it tells you what to press to configure the device. For example, some Network Boot Loaders have you press SHIFT + F10 to configure the NIC. And with that you can select the boot order, which I believe the default should be PnP/Bev or something similar.

What about third-party bootloaders?

I am interested in creating a website using the stock IIS that comes with 2003 Server. If I create one there, how easy would it be to migrate that website to another 2003 or 2008 server? Also are there any articles relating to website migration I can read up on?

Media Player plays audio using the system's default audio device. Make sure your sound card is selected in the Sound Devices control panel, and isn't set to "Default Audio Device" as it usually is.

That is surprising to me also. I have never seen memtest halt during a test... it usually will keep testing on and on (longest I've ran was over 700 hours) and errors appear with big red bars that go across the screen.

I am not certain if this file is redistributable, however you can extract the original from your Vista DVD.

If you are using an IP address, and it gives you this message, it means your computer is not able to connect to the host. Basically it isn't really worded that way, but it basically can't resolve the path. Ideas: 1. The IP Address on the PC has changed. 2. Make sure you added the NOTEBOOK_COMPUTERNAME\USER account to the Everyone (or Administrators or whatever) group on the Home PC. 3. When you log on to the notebook as local, is it still joined to the domain or is it set for workgroup.

98 has floppies. I believe the number was around 35. I've done a 98 install with floppies. I think it was 33 but you had two extra disks. An emergency boot disk and something else. So ya, 35 does indeed sound right. The problem with 98 on floppies is that maybe disk 32 was bad and you'd be screwed because it would be 2 hours in that you'd find that out. Also Windows NT 3.51 had a floppy install as well. I wanted to revise my previous statement. NT 3.51 had a 5.25" floppy install..

I have recently come into the "possession" of a computer at work with three hard drives. I wanted to see if I could install 3 OSes on it, but not sure which ones I should put on it. How about some recommendations? I also want to make sure that the three I pick will be able to work from a boot.ini or other bootloader. The computer isn't overly powerful, and was designed to be used as a security video recorder. One of the OSes I would like to install is Windows NT 4 (probably server) but not sure about the other two. OSes that are not to be considered: - Vista - Server 2003 - Server 2008 - Windows XP - Windows 98 What do ya think?

OK so you are using an XP computer as the network share, so you aren't using WDS then. You should be able to break the wpeinit process (Ctrl+C) when it is running in the startnet.cmd after you feel that it isn't doing anything anymore. I would say it should complete within 2-3 minutes before moving along to the next item in your startnet.cmd. After you break it, you should be able to launch notepad by just typing it at the prompt. Notepad is included in the default WinPE that comes with the current WAIK and OPK. Afterwhich, you can view the wpeinit's logfile to see if it has any interesting info in there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748941.aspx I use the OPK and not the WAIK. It is basically the same thing, but due to licensing reasons, Microsoft requires us to use the OPK and not the WAIK.

I had this problem today when trying to deploy a known-working Ghost image of Vista Home Premium. I chalked it up to being a hardware issue or incompatibility and just installed it from an unattended CD.

I will definately check that out then. The server that actually has the speed issue is running 2008 x64 and uses an Intel S5000PSL board. I am not going to think (of the bat) that it is a driver issue in this case, however our main theory is that there is an issue with the method we are transferring data.

At work I just got a firewall program. It is built into the Trend Micro CSA. I think I am the only one in the company that is using it. At home I have the XP Firewall turned on and use a hardware firewall for real protection.

The PE will use whatever network speed that the Vista drivers you injected into the WinPE is set for. You should know other things that will force slower network traffic. Also, make sure your NIC on the server is set for the speed you want, or if you are using 2008, check the WDS speed setting. I think the default setting is 100Mbps.

Only time have seen WPEINIT not complete or take a really long period of time is on certain motherboards that don't seem to fully support the PE, or I didn't put in the correct drivers. If your CDs haven't changed, has your hardware? If you are actively deploying using the WinPE you might want to look into doing a network boot. Or you can try reburning a disk. Are you using the latest Servicing update (Vista 1.1 Package) in your PE?

Network Auto Detection was not an option I could find. I did change the link speed to Auto-negotiated/1000 and that changed the Network performance tab to 1Gbps. I will have to see how it performs perhaps tomorrow. We have an underlying issue that isn't actually with this computer. It is with our 2008 WDS Server where the network utilization is very low on incoming traffic and very high for outgoing. Since this 2003 WDS Server is way slower and using worse (unicast only) software support, there shouldn't EVER be a reason why it runs data over a test network faster than the 2008, but it does. Tomorrow I will now be able to do some side-by-side tests. Both servers are connected to their own private gigabit "LANs" aka a switch with one other PC on it.

How does it appear in Device Manager?

I use the finaly slipstreamed version that is shipped from microsoft (orignally vista sb version with sp1). What OS is installed on your Technician PC? Some OSes do not slipstream properly. If you look in the Unattended Vista forum, you may find similar questions and perhaps answers. Your problems sounds familiar so I am going to guess that someone has posted about it here before.

Oh neet... I think... we just got some of these ID boards in and downloaded all the drivers. We might get to test them soon.

Could be your key is hosed up. Does it still work in Windows?