WinPE on USB Key - hangs?

[Onyxdragun]

I created a USB (512mb) key with Vista's diskpart with fat32.

I then used the Windows Vista AIK to install the WinPE items on a WinXP system.

I then used the following once I inserted the USB key

xcopy c:\win_adm64\ISO\*.* /s /e /f e:\

Which copied the files over to the USB Key.

I then booted the computer with the USB Key and it got to the following screen:

X:\windows\system32\wpeinit

and just hangs there. I looked on the USB key and there is no .log file or anything to tell me what is going one.

The contents of the USB key are as follows:

boot\

+------font\

+------bcd

+------boot.sdi

+------bootfix.bin

+------efisys.bin

+------efisys_noprompt.bin

+------etfsboot

EFI\

+------microsoft\

+-------+-----boot\

+-------+-----+-----bcd

sources\

+-------boot.wim

bootmgr

bootmgr.ef

Am I missing something? I want to use WinPE to allow me to install Vista. The boot portion of my Vista install cd is buggered and I found out you cannot load Vista via MSDOS.

[MadBoy]

Check Data Access Prevention in BIOS. See if you have something like this? WHat HW model you have?

[jaclaz]

Check this thread about partition boundaries:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21186

cannot say if it applies to your case, but it is worth a check.

jaclaz

[trtkron]

Recopy the wim back onto the drive. I get this every now and then if the file doesn't finish copying (i've gotten in the habit of "safely remove hardware" so it doesn't happen anymore)

[Tripredacus]

How long does it hang there? For me it can take between 20 seconds to 3 minutes, depending on which motherboard is in the PC, for that to complete.