stamat Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Hello,I've been reading and learning a lot during the last week. I made my WinPE cd and I can boot it all working fine. However, I cannot browse to other drives than x:\. The purpose of doing it is to restore my factory install of vista (imagex /apply d:\dell\image\factory.wim 1 c:\)I made another win pe dvd where i put the factory.wim in the mount folder, so that it can appear in x:\ drive when booted. But i guess it requires too much RAM to be able to load it (I have 4.0gb RAM on my computer).How should I proceed? At least how can I browse to an external HDD or to the cd-rom after booting winPE?Thanks in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 You can put your image at the root of the DVD that way it doesn't load to memory.As far as reading external or internal drives, if it is not reading the USB drive try adding the chipset drivers to the image or you can load them after booting to test. For internal drives try adding the SATA controller drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stamat Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 (edited) Hi IcemanND,I tried with putting the image at the root of the DVD, but when it is not loaded to memory i do not have access to it, as i do not have access to my cd-rom in boot environment, ONLY to x: Can you point me to where to find these drivers and how to add them to the dvd?Thanks for the reply!PS: My C: and D: drives on the laptop are NTFS. Is that a problem? Edited February 8, 2009 by stamat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I've only had issues accessing encrypted drives when booted from a WinPE 2 cd. If it is booting from your cd/dvd there should be a drive letter for the CD/DVD. Check out my guide here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=101383 driver installation is on page 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stamat Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Ok then, can I ask what (dos) commands you use to access your cd/dvd or hdd when in boot environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 just change to the drive letter. If you are not sure what it is you can type: echo list volume|diskpartAnd it will list all the assigned drive letters:Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation.On computer: LAPTOP1-XPDISKPART> Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D THE_ART_OF_ UDF DVD-ROM 1695 MB Volume 1 C main NTFS Partition 149 GB Healthy System Volume 2 F NTFS Removeable 7680 MBDISKPART> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stamat Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Thanks so much IcemanND,I just tried to boot the dvd again and all worked fine. I guess it's different in testing condition, when using VirtualBox. Anyway, it's all fine now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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