i'm having no end of grief with WinPE at the moment (through RIS/WDS),

on some new computers I just cannot get the intel Pro1000 ethernet to work, so I though i'd give WinPE 2.0 a go..

WinPE2 works fine, the network driver is built in - and now the hard drive has gone!!

in diskpart, if you "list disk" it returns that it can find no disks

Other disks on the same system work ok, but i need these samsung 80GB drives to work - any ideas?

(there is absolutely nothing wrong with the drives - they work fine in all other situations, and diskpart in earlier versions of WinPE show the disk as present without any issue...)

It sounds like you don't have the MSD driver installed.

Are you plugging the problem drive into the exact same connection that your other working drives were plugged into?

It sounds like you don't have the MSD driver installed.

Are you plugging the problem drive into the exact same connection that your other working drives were plugged into?

exact same coonection - and MSD must be working as an older 40GB drive works just fine on the same setup

What type of system is this?

Can you post the output of this:

devcon.exe find pci*

What type of system is this?

Can you post the output of this:

devcon.exe find pci*

It's a fairly standard intel855 chipset based motherboard..

changing the disk makes no difference in PCI - you always get:

PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7130&SUBSYS_00001131&REV_01\4&1A671D0C&0&38F0: Multimedia Controller

PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7130&SUBSYS_00001131&REV_01\4&1A671D0C&0&40F0: Multimedia Controller

PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7130&SUBSYS_00001131&REV_01\4&1A671D0C&0&48F0: Multimedia Controller

PCI\VEN_1131&DEV_7133&SUBSYS_20041131&REV_F0\4&1A671D0C&0&50F0: Multimedia Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&SUBSYS_10768086&REV_05\4&1A671D0C&0&20F0: Intel® PRO/1000 MT Network Connection

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_244E&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_82\3&13C0B0C5&0&F0: PCI to PCI Bridge

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C0&SUBSYS_00000000&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&F8: PCI to ISA Bridge

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C2&SUBSYS_24C28086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&E8: Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C3&SUBSYS_24C28086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&FB: SM Bus Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C4&SUBSYS_24C28086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&E9: Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C5&SUBSYS_76508384&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&FD: Multimedia Audio Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24C7&SUBSYS_24C28086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&EA: Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24CB&SUBSYS_24C28086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&F9: IDE Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24CD&SUBSYS_24CD8086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&EF: Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3580&SUBSYS_35808086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&00: PCI HOST Bridge

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3582&SUBSYS_35828086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&10: Video Controller (VGA Compatible)

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3582&SUBSYS_35828086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&11: Video Controller

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3584&SUBSYS_35848086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&01: Base System Device

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_3585&SUBSYS_35858086&REV_02\3&13C0B0C5&0&03: Base System Device

19 matching device(s) found.

but between the 2 different disks (both samsung laptop IDE disks) you can't see the disk with the 80GB:

IDE\DISKSAMSUNG_MP0402H_________________________UC200-16\5&163B4B11&0&0.0.0: SAMSUNG MP0402H ATA Device

PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&1A057FDE&0&0 : ATA Channel 0

2 matching device(s) found.

PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&1A057FDE&0&0 : ATA Channel 0

1 matching device(s) found.

so it seems the WinPE2 version of the IDE driver is failing to see certain disks that work fine in earlier versions of WinPE!!!???

Any ideas?

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...13516&st=80

hope this helps, you can not format yet but hopefully they will get it working in the near future