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I don't have a Vista machine to look at right now but see if the registry entry in this article exists in Vista. You might have to do a reboot after you set it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

Its really cool that you brought this up, I never tried using Imagex in this way. Here are my results (I am a domain admin) and of course I got no errors. C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools>imagex /capture c:\data\bios c:\apps\test.wim "BIOS" "BIOS" /compress fast ImageX Tool for Windows Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved. Files/folders excluded from image capture by default: \WINDOWS\CSC \RECYCLER \$Recycle.Bin\* \System Volume Information \pagefile.sys \hiberfil.sys \$ntfs.log Progress: 100% Successfully imaged c:\data\bios C:\Program Files\Windows OPK\Tools\PETools>cd c:\apps C:\apps>dir *.wim Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B4F4-FF22 Directory of C:\apps 04/17/2008 03:35 PM 27,002,056 test.wim 1 File(s) 27,002,056 bytes 0 Dir(s) 38,194,384,896 bytes free C:\apps> Also perhaps there are some ownership issue? I will play around with this tomorrow if you're still having a problem. I'm in the process of moving my deployment server (which is running on a domain in which I can attempt to recreate the situation) so its not even on at the moment.

I understand these specs that come from online, but our Microsoft rep says 2GB minimum for all Vista flavours to get optimal functionality out of it.

Are you using some super exclusion list? If that usergroup doesn't have file permissions for something, and ImageX attempts to copy that file first, it is possible that it would skip all the other files as well. I'm not sure but that's my first idea.

Unfortunately, there is no setting to play system sounds at a different level than any other sounds that your computer makes, like from DVDs or CDs or what have you. You could use an audio editor (like Audacity) to amplify the sounds so they are louder than the other sounds, or change them to a louder sound alltogether. What kind of speakers do you have? I always have my system volume at 100% and dictate the actual volume with the dial on the speakers.

I believe 2GB is a minimum for Vista. I haven't had the chance to test out gaming on Vista but it is definately a concern for me as well.

I've had some dealings with SecuROM when I was helping a friend diagnose why his NHL08 game wouldn't run. SecuROM also doesn't like SysInternal's Filemon or Procexp, both of which I attempted to use to find a solution but came up with none.

I'm not sure about the HDD size as we've only used 60s and 80s I think. It might be because of the drive type, it basically has a SATA notebook drive in there. The only thing I'm not too keen about with these is that they get a little warm. There are definately HDDs that are bigger than 160GB using 3GBps. Toshiba makes a 320GB for that type. I used that as an example because my last ticket I sent to AOpen had a Toshiba 60GB Mobile SATA drive in it, so I looked on their website for their other drives. This particular one fell under their "2.5 inch" section of notebook drives.

At home I use Firefox for all my browsing. it is not the default browser, that is still IE, but I don't use IE for much of anything. About a week ago, some Javascript portions of websites have ceased to function. This includes things like collapsable list menus, among others. The places where I have noticed this is on Facebook and Ebay. On eBay the "Save this search" link is what isn't working. I haven't installed any plug-ins or ran any updates in over a year so I can't figure out why some of these functions aren't working. Any ideas?

I don't think its related, but is there a reason why you are not having diskpart format the drive?

I just found it weird because our Vista installs put the driver in automatically. We only have to script drivers for Broadcom and RTL8168/8111 nics.

Hey the FAT and the MBR are two different things. Recovering an MBR can be done but I've never heard of anyone recovering a FAT before. i'd sure like to learn more about that process myself if it is possible.

So you just can't install from a file share? Can you install from a CD-ROM or a floppy disk? What OS is on your file server? It might just be an NTFS vs Share rights issue.

I would say that the choice of operating system would lie solely in what programs you are looking to run, and what they require/work best in.

See if you can do the following: start run mmc see if that opens anything.

Yea man, it's Bethedsa's official site, even tho when you leave their site for it it tells you they aren't responsible for the content. Its the only real place you should get the Oblivion plugins.

I read somewhere that Flash HDDs (actual flash, not solid-state in general) had a really low MTBF compared to magnetic drives (but not as low as optical drives) and this was the number one concern about Asus' EEE PC. That Flash HDDs are designed to be used sparingly and not as a standard HDD.

Yea I got that backwards!

Those are neat little machines. I set those up all the time. My first question was if you had the light on the front or not! I can't remember if that model is the one with the IR light and the 2 USB ports on the front... They made so many models that are all practically the same that I get them confused.

I used to use one of that model before! I almost forgot I had one. At work we use TrendNet 16 port T1601R which handles PS2, DIN and VGA.

Well presuming your keyboards don't have a volume control key, you can just deny access to the volume control panel.

That'll be pretty tough. There's not much parity between the physical connections outside and the information about those connections. You wouldn't be able to tell other than whichever one Windows finds first, that is the one it makes 1, and the second is 2. There is no garauntee it won't find the second adapter first. Can you see the MAC Addresses for the NICs in the BIOS at all? Do both have the same Hardware ID?

Are you sure they are the PRO 1000 drivers aka e1e5132?

Alright here is a weird one that I haven't experienced yet, although I have a lead on it already. I have a machine that I captured an XP image from. The volume table is as follows: vol 0: ltr=c; label=; FS=NTFS; Type=Part; Size=61GB; Status=Healthy; Info=; vol 1: ltr=; label=; FS=FAT32; Type=Part; Size=14GB; Status=Healthy; Info=Hidden; I created the image as follows: [diskpart] select disk 0 select part 1 select vol 1 assign letter=d: [imagex] imagex /capture c: z:\image.wim "C Drive" /compress fast imagex /capture d: z:\image.wim "D Drive" /compress fast Then I redploy the image back onto the source machine. The only difference is that the partitions are backwards because of Microsoft's Standard Practices for using diskpart. [diskpart] select disk 0 clean create part pri size=14096 select part 1 assign letter=d: format fs=fat32 quick create part pri size=62220 active assign letter=c: format fs=ntfs quick exit [imagex] imagex /apply z:\image.wim "Drive C" C: imagex /apply z:\image.wim "Drive D" D: [diskpart] select disk 0 select part 1 select vol 1 att vol set hidden att vol set nodefaultdriveletter set id=12 [imagex] attrib c:\boot.ini -R +A -S -H copy v_boot.ini 1 attrib c:\boot.ini +R -A +S +H The boot.ini is replaced because the boot volume is now different than the one that was captured. All I did was change the VOLUME(1) to (0) but should I need to change that to (2)? So on bootup I get the HAL.DLL is missing or corrupted, but if I use NTFSDOS (or reboot back into the PE) I can see that the file is there. Also now the vols look the same as above, except the Vol #s are switched. LMK if anyone has any ideas.

When you plug a 1.1 device into a 2.0 port, it will give you a message on the screen saying the device can perform faster. Other than that, there really isn't another way that I know of.