jtlittl Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Help with this would really be appreciated.I amm using winpe to boot up a machine via usb drive, preparing the c: drive or disk 0 then starting a xp unattended install from a network share.I boot up in winpe and go to disk part and run the following commands.Select disk 0cleanCreate partition primaryselect partition 1assign letter=c:activeforamt fs=ntfs quickthen I use a net use command to connect to the serverand then run the i:\XPPro\i386\winnt32.exe /syspart:c: /unattend:i:\XPPro\unattend.txt /s:i:\XPPro\i386It launches and goes through the inital install, after it runs it comes back to winpe cmd prompt again so I reboot for the next part of the install and this is the error i get.A disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del to restartI read about mbr issues I have ran the mbrfix /disk 0 fismbr command and I cannot seem to get past this.any ideas would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Might be related to this:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21186I read about mbr issues I have ran the mbrfix /disk 0 fismbr command and I cannot seem to get past this.And what about bootsect?:http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/bootsectexe-...or-not-the-mbr/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leen2 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 If you are using WinPE 2.1 (Vista PE) to create the partitions and then install Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 onto those partitions, you may need to set the following registry values for disk alignment in the Virtual Disk service in WinPE.In Windows PE registry, Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vds\ALIGNMENTset the following DWord valuesLessThan4GBBetween4_8GBBetween8_32GBGreaterThan32GBwith the value 0Then perform the diskpart commands to create the partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtlittl Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 I will look into the bootsec command.thank youBut I was also wondering if this could be part of the problem the hard drive is a SATA haddrive if it is unable to kick off the second part of the install maybe becaue of a hard disk driver?Well if it never boots up to windows for the text mode of the install I guess that wouldn't applythanks for anymore suggestions going to try the bootsec command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtlittl Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 If you are using WinPE 2.1 (Vista PE) to create the partitions and then install Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 onto those partitions, you may need to set the following registry values for disk alignment in the Virtual Disk service in WinPE.In Windows PE registry, Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vds\ALIGNMENTset the following DWord valuesLessThan4GBBetween4_8GBBetween8_32GBGreaterThan32GBwith the value 0Then perform the diskpart commands to create the partitions.I tried this above and came out with the same results.Thaks for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadget Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Set sata to compatability or slipstream the drivers using something like nlite.But it definatly sounds like the bootsec problem as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) you have to edit the registry, after that you must format via diskpart.use bootsect /nt52 and install xp via commandlinesee my thread herehttp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=670014 Edited April 30, 2009 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ifonly Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Thank you so much for this. I have been bashing my head against the desk all week trying to resolve exactly this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amoss24 Posted August 2, 2009 Share Posted August 2, 2009 Im also getting boot problems with windows xp using imagex and win pe.I can image a windows xp installation, boot with win pe, setup the hard disk and apply the image.Windows XP boots great and is all set nicely, can get windows on a pc with all updates etc in about 20 to 30mins including the time to formate the disk.BUTwhenever i try to image windows xp after installing applications it images ok, setup the disk as before and apply it all looks good no errors all runs smoothly but when it come to reboot to run xp, it does not boot just shows blank black screen no error messages or anything with no disk activity.if i re run win pe look at me c: everything is there and all looks good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Im also getting boot problems with windows xp using imagex and win pe.I can image a windows xp installation, boot with win pe, setup the hard disk and apply the image.Windows XP boots great and is all set nicely, can get windows on a pc with all updates etc in about 20 to 30mins including the time to formate the disk.BUTwhenever i try to image windows xp after installing applications it images ok, setup the disk as before and apply it all looks good no errors all runs smoothly but when it come to reboot to run xp, it does not boot just shows blank black screen no error messages or anything with no disk activity.if i re run win pe look at me c: everything is there and all looks goodTry capturing images that are sysprepped or in Audit mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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