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You can also install from a USB stick (its much faster,) one 8MB and up should suffice

Here is the link http://www.wincert.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=7384

Yes, the steps are: install Windows 7, boot into sysprep, install apps, generalize, capture image for later install (check out my signature for some links) What I think you are saying is you can only sysprep XP and install to the EXACT same hardware (cpu, etc) but this is not a problem with Windows 7...correct, you can capture and deploy Windows 7 from/to any kind of hardware

RT7lite supports silent installers, there are proprietary addons that work with Windows 7 Toolkit and OnePiece has DX Integrator that supports addons and silent installers You can also pre-install your applications in Windows 7 and capture that image for install

If its Windows Vista/7 its the same path for all languages

She was so young

Kel, I so sorry my friend

Well....can you play the file? If you can play it you dont have a problem

I have only tried putting my VHD's on C:\ but I dont see why not. If you dont want to accidentally format your C:\ drive you could probably label your VHD with diskpart, try this create vdisk file=c:\<name_of_disk>.vhd maximum=20480 label=<your_label> REMEMBER! this only works with ultimate As for the driver letters, whatever drive you boot into will be the C:\ drive, the others will vary

Yes I get the warning always (its standard) and yes it works perfectly fine BTW you could create a txt with the diskpart commands to create your virtual hd diskpart /s <path>\<name_of_file>.txt TXT contents create vdisk file=c:\<name_of_disk>.vhd maximum=20480 select vdisk file=c:\<name_of_disk>.vhd attach vdisk exit

Dont need to do nothing fancy here, just point /packagepath to the dir containing the msu/cab's (it will also see and integrate ie9) dism /Image:c:\wim /Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\vistax64Updates BTW I dont think you need to uninstall this waik, it should work just fine with Vista

I also get the vhd bios warning, but I dont have any problems (I guess you can ignore it)

I know that only Ulitmate can boot from a vhd, when you say you are installing to a vhd are you doing it on a virtual pc or on your actual pc (dual booting)? Only reason I am using VMware in the videos is as an example, I actually create a 20 GB vhd (instead of partitioning my hdd) and install Win7 on that, when I am done I remove it from the boot manager, mount & finally capture/delete it

Its very hard, they have to look under the SourceDisksFiles section and find/copy the files listed there to be backed up...plus there different driver inf's have different format styles. I have also seen times where there are two SourceDisksFiles sections and other times where the files are not listed in SourceDisksFiles but are instead copied by the CoInstaller Who better than Windows itself to know exactly what files to copy, and even better that Windows Vista/7 conveniently back up the driver to the DriverStore so we can just grab it for the future with none of the setup junk

There is only a problem if when you boot into sysprep you set your network connection to Home or Work, the solution is to set it to Public or not at all (more into) Give this a go see if you have a problem playing it

I was thinking exFAT, I remember being able to add it to XP before it was officially supported but I have googled and cant find anybody who has added it to 9x

If for some reason Windows 7 still shows the HDD after disabling it in the bios you could hide it with a registry entry http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/hide-drives-from-your-computer-in-windows-vista/

I dont think it would help, if he does he wont be able to use it anymore on his PC

Install the drivers like you normally would, then go to the following folder, sort by date and retrieve the drivers for slipstreaming %WinDir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository This way you can be assured that no files will be missing and integration will not fail (BTW you can delete the .PNF file)

You can create a script for diskpart that will create/attach your VHD, look in my sig you will find some vids (also check out the links I point to, like the OPK vids and the VHD tutorial)

I also install to vhd to test my iso, dont need VM's anymore

Thanks for this info, I always thought (wrongly I guess) that if you use no compression your install would be faster

When I first started I used VMware (Virtual PC) to install 7, boot into sysprep, install apps, generalize, then I would convert the vmdk to a vhd and finally mount/capture it Now what I do is instead of using vmware or installing on a second partition I install to a VHD (only works with Win7 Ultimate,) then when I am finished I can boot into my primary OS and mount/capture it My advice, if you can install it offline dont install it during sysprep (IE9, updates & drivers) and you are worried about programs being updated making your image obsolete...thats why I install only official Microsoft stuff leaving the other programs for post install to be installed via WPI

Yes, what he said...dont set your network to home or work set it to public (I dont set it at all, I dont need to connect to the net)

No I did not reboot, after I got the sysprep error I reinstalled and redid my customizations The reason for my error I think was because I used bcdedit /delete to delete the sysprep'd install from the bootmanager before generalizing