I read on a thread somewhere that 2005 may support a NIC I'm trying to load (Intel pro/1000 on an IBM M52). So I grabbed my trust PE 2005 CD and did the following:

--> Made a dir called D:\WINPE2005

--> Copied the WINPE folder from CD to D:\WINPE2005

--> Made a dir called D:\WINPE2005\W2K3CD

--> Copied my 2003 Server w/SP1 into that folder

--> Ran MKIMG and created a build for HDD's

--> Copied the build to a USB HDD

Now, I've been using this procedure for my older version of PE and it's been working just fine. However, this seems to not be working. When the white line changes from "Launchine Windows PE..." to Please Wait, it just sits there. ALmost like I missing something.

Any ideas??

-DaG

Oki... are u booting WinPE from a CD or from RIS? In case of RIS this usually means that the NIC drivers are not in place (or if I am not mistaken, there is a hotfix in regards to diffrent HAL's upon boot WinPE from a Win2000 RIS machine). In case of CD, dunno... do u have the same problem when in VPC or VMWare?

Best Regards

Tha Sausage Eater...

Nope - No RIS. I have been building my PE images for some time w/XP SP2 and it's been wokring great. I can even boot from the OEM CD into PE. But for some reason, something's not getting loaded...

Have you tried to redo the entire thing?

I hade the same problem and I think it was a coppy error then copying the source cd to disk that caused thet hang.