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Alright I am manually testing this script and there appear to be some issues with it. 1. It won't let me assign the ID byte when creating the partition. I will instead set the partition ID during the cleanup phase by using 'attributes set id=0x12' instead. 2. When you create an extended partition, the default numbering for it is 0 (zero). 3. I cannot make part 0 active because it says it is not a data volume. HELP: I need to insert the following after creating the extended partition? create partition extended [offset=n] [noerr] I will try it out, or is it recommended to create the logical partition instead of the extended one? Also, obviously my cleanup script needs to be changed from selecting part 2 to part 0.

Because we cannot use RE for XP recovery options, we use another method. This changes the drive ID to x12 instead of x07 so if we are to expect it to match previous computers we shipped out, we need to duplicate it as best as possible. We can already see the current ID with Ghost which shows the C drive to be 7 and the recovery partition to be 12.

I believe all you need to do is run the copype to your destination and just don't do any peimg steps afterwards.

Hey, isn't there a Service Pack requirement to burn CDs in XP? Also, I remember having to install the HiMAT software in order to enable it when I originally set up my computer.

When you are logging on to these other machines, you are using your own creds? Do you get different speed results on different computers at the same site?

Virtualisation Technology is in fact being able to run multiple virtual sessions on the same machine. This will, in effect, all you to run a Windows 95 program IF you happen to have a Windows 95 session running. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_virtualization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

Doesn't OfficeReady exhibit this behaviour after 60 days? The Office COA should still work tho.

Currently I am evaluating the use of WDS to deploy images that contain a recovery partition. ATM I am imaging a test machine from which I will be testing out capturing methods, so I wrote up this quick script (yes literally wrote it on a pad of paper) for how I can structure my diskpart scripting during the deploy phase. Please review the following and LMK if you see anything I should revise or be aware of. The Volume IDs are the real ones I need to use. Pre-image Diskpart script: select disk 0 clean create part pri size='62220' id='0x07' select part 1 active assign letter='c:' format fs='ntfs' quick create part ext size='14096' id='0x12' select part 2 active assign letter=d:' format fs='fat32' quick Post-image diskpart script: select disk 0 select part 2 active attributes set hidden attributes set nodefaultdriveletter

Which is it? 0xC000000F or 0xF?

You are kinda all over the place here... These are examples. First image: use /capture image.wim "VistaBusiness" Second image: use /capture image.wim "VistaUltimate" For SP1, deploy image.wim "VistaBusiness", install SP1, /append image.wim "VistaBusiness" LMK if I got this wrong.

Hmm it shouldn't change it back on you. That has never happened to me. I had a machine that said it was running OS/2 Warp on a Motorola 8600 through many restarts!

If you feel its the HDD, try disconnecting it and see if it boots to the "can't find OS" message, whatever way it displays that to you. Alternatively, if it does get to this point, you can try replacing the HDD cable and see if that helps. We often find Intel boards that stop at the POST with the dreaded 5A and replacing the cable fixes it 95% of the time.

The other option for getting old games to work in XP is using the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit. I only used it once, and that was to get the sound to work in Destruction Derby 2, which is a DOS (really W95 DOS Mode) game.

The things that I have noticed that cause slow downs: 1. Explorer updates the volume info for the optical drives 2. The folder nears the FAT limit for individual files.

If your motherboard uses a controller that the XP CD doesn't have a driver for, it will give you this message. You may need to F6 a driver during the install.

iirc all of those strings can be changed in the registry.

Your notebook might be set up to use AHCI which means you can either change it to IDE or use ye olde F6 after you acquire the driver.

I've had mouse problems in the past and these are the things I had tried. 1. See how the performance is while connected using a PS2 adapter. 2. Check your surface compared to the other places it worked. There may be a tolerance difference with the optics. 3. Try connecting that mouse and a different optical USB mouse to the computer, then try to use the other (not the one having problems) and see how it reacts. Sorry I got called into a 3.5 hour meeting when I started writing this email, got brain dead, went home, came back to work and realised I never finished... I hope this helps anyways.

OK I got a new question. I noticed in the HTA itself that there was a "setres" option cfg for 1024x768x32bit. I tried to make it 800x600 but it didn't seem to make a difference. While I did manage to image the ASUS EEE PC 701 with your GUI, it did not support the default resolution and I had to cmd prompt it manually. Is the only thing that is keeping the 800x600 setting at 1024 because of the background PNG?

The only stop errors I have seen with vista are black screens.

I'm just annoyed that it doesn't support full on Boolean like it did when it first came out... Ebay is annoying with the secondguessing as well.

I just tried out the GimageX (COM Based) HTA today and have encountered an error. Line:222 Char:1 Object Required: 'objWIM' Code:0 it is this line: objWIM.Source = myFilepath + objSel1.options(objSel1.selectedindex).text Everything seems to work: I can select images or deploy them, but the image names within the WIM are blank. In my case, there are 2 WIMs and each only has 1 image in them. It shows a radio button after I select the image, but there is no words next to it. EDIT: sorry, I didn't read the part in the first post that said to register the DLL... :\ It works now just fine.

That's queer, I have never seen a VIA EPIA motherboard not being able to boot from USB. Or is it one of those third-party motherboards that use VIA C3? What BIOS (Award or Ami) and version do the machines have? jaclaz It used a Phoenix BIOS. We already shipped the thing so I can't go look at it. It was one of those situations where a USB key wasn't detected by the BIOS as any particular boot option, and you didn't get the ability to select a boot menu. It was not detected as either a Hard Drive, USB-HDD, USB-FDD, USB-CD-ROM or whatever other options there were. We were able to boot off a real USB floppy, and could boot off the USB key if there was no OS on the Hard Drive. It did have an AMI DMI on it tho...

I created a script that defrags a computers 2 volumes and then restarts. I am not using the /noprompt switch because when I did use it, the computer would reboot while it was running. As a test I changed the script to just run the defrag on the one drive, which uses the following cmd: defrag c: /f Now It just has a DOS box up with fragmentation stats on it but doesn't seem to be doing anything. The computer isn't locked up, but the HD LED is on constant. Task Manager shows 00:00 for CPU time for defrag.exe. Is this normal for it to take a long time and not seem to be doing anything??

I did see that actually. Can the computer even go in standby/hibernate while in the PE? Both of these units had their hard drives set for Cable Select. But you should be able to get a computer to boot to the PE even if there isn't a hard drive in it. I've actually done that before...