kyor Posted December 15, 2006 Author Share Posted December 15, 2006 (edited) @knockzIt's a workaround that Microsoft sends me via email. It does not exist a KB article as i know.@JazkalIf you found a solution for imagex and w2k3, please post it here. My college have to handlewith win2003.But do you really need bootsect on winpe 2005 ?I think i have tried imagex on winpe 2005 to install a sysprep Windows XP image without bootsect. It works in the beta version of imagex.have a great weekend kyor Edited December 15, 2006 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beta4Me Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 (edited) Get your WinXP CD, and look here:%ROOTOFCD%\SUPPORT\TOOLS\here you will find a deploy.cab file. extract this out and have a look at these two files:deploy.chmref.chmThese two files will answer most of your questions.I've checked them and learnt about that stuff, but it doesn't tell me how to access or use mini-setup or a very good explanation of it, jsut a brief description.Also do you just sysprep -factory it or syprep -audit and then reseal.Can this be used on systems with totally different HAL's and update them during mini-setup? Edited December 15, 2006 by Beta4Me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 @JazkalIf you found a solution for imagex and w2k3, please post it here. My college have to handlewith win2003.But do you really need bootsect on winpe 2005 ?I think i have tried imagex on winpe 2005 to install a sysprep Windows XP image without bootsect. It works in the beta version of imagex.WinPE2 and Imagex works fine with Win2k3 on most of systems, it's just a few that we are having problems with.And our tests of WinPE 2005, work fine, it's just that we want to move to WinPE2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frtest Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Don't see attachmentam-i blind ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 The attachment that i have posted is gone. I Don't know why. I will repost the reg file, when i am at work next week.Greetingskyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 (edited) I have found it on my desktop :Ö-) fixbootxp.reg Edited December 31, 2006 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 That is strange. I'm wondering if Microsoft asked a Mod to remove the attachments? Wouldn't they tell us if they did that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassings Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I raised the diskpart problem to microsoft this morning and this is the solution they gave me:POTENTIAL WORKAROUND #1:------------------------When creating the partitions for use with XP and 2003, you can use the following command to create the partition: create part primary align=16065Advantage: No modifications required to the WinPE image itself or to the XP/2003 install image, only change is a slight modification to the diskpart script.Considerations:- This will leave anywhere from 16MB to 32MB of the disk unused. (This is not as big a deal as it might sound; even under the old XP partitioning scheme we always left from 1MB to 8MB of the disk unused. On modern-day disks this amount of space is trivial.)- If users look in Disk Management after the OS is installed, they will notice 16MB of unpartitioned space shown at the beginning of the disk.POTENTIAL WORKAROUND #2:------------------------Modify your WinPE 2.0 image to have the following registry changes:HKLM\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VDS\ALIGNMENT LessThan4GB REG_DWORD 0 Between4_8GB REG_DWORD 0 Between8_32GB REG_DWORD 0 GreaterThan32GB REG_DWORD 0This can be done by modifying the registry hive in the boot.wim file used to create the WinPE disc.Then use diskpart as usual to partition the disc.I'm currently testing work around 2 on vmware. I've injected the registry changes in to my boot.wim by mounting it to a folder c:\Winpe\mount and the executing the following commands:reg load HKLM\PE-SYS c:\Winpe\Mount\Windows\system32\config\systemReg Add "HKLM\PE-SYS\ControlSet001\Services\vds\Alignment" /t Reg_Dword /v LessThan4GB /d 0 /fReg Add "HKLM\PE-SYS\ControlSet001\Services\vds\Alignment" /t Reg_Dword /v Between4_8GB /d 0 /fReg Add "HKLM\PE-SYS\ControlSet001\Services\vds\Alignment" /t Reg_Dword /v Between8_32GB /d 0 /fReg Add "HKLM\PE-SYS\ControlSet001\Services\vds\Alignment" /t Reg_Dword /v GreaterThan32GB /d 0 /freg unload HKLM\PE-SYSI can't confirm if this works or not yet.Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmorris Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 that worked for me.... i would get a corrupted file system after xp rebooted the second time.... i added a registry import to the task sequence, before partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiera Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) Very interesting thread and solutions are logical. I have been searching for this issue long time ago as soon as winpe 2.0 appeared and no results. Though i tried my work this way:1: Start winpe 2.02: run the regedit to apply the fix boot3: diskpart normally with the script3 1/2 : bootsect /nt52 c: (Forgot it almost)4: runn winnt32 either unattened or attened5: restartwindows installation proceeds by restarting it (manually after first install) and enters the blue screen like the cd setup, copies the files, and restarts automatically, after this install i got a problemI get a fast message before it keeps rebooting automatically and it saysA write operation was..... I cant get the rest it restarts too fast (this is the only case i wish the machine was slower) Anyone can give me a hint how to fix this part, what am I doing wrong.....thanks Edited February 22, 2007 by Saiera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahuldel Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I am having a problem while installing Windows XP Pro thru winnt32 thru WinPE v2.The installation works fine if I am using just a plain Windows XP with SP2 without any updates or tweaks etc but if I apply any of Ryans updates or the whole series of update packs etc to make it upto date it does not even go past the first reboot after the text mode.The error comes as "Setup was unable to verify Drive c:, youc computer does not have enough memory to examine............"If it is just a plain XP Pro + SP2 CD it works fine and installation goes thru perfectly.Any help please......... Setup was unable to verify Drive C: after text mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 You may get better answers by asking in the Ryan forums. Personally, I use HFSLIP to do my hotfix slipstreaming, and don't have any issues with WinPE2 and winnt32 over the network.Sorry I couldn't help with the actual question though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 (edited) EDIT: removed. Sorry i posted in the wrong thread Edited March 22, 2007 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acyang Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 ok i think here is the complete workaround to solve the installation issue with winnt32.exedo the following only for xp and win2003 installations.On vista you will get performance problems with raid controllersif you use the fixbootxp.reg1. run winpe 2.02. regedit /s fixbootxp.reg (attached in this post)3. diskpart4. bootsect /nt52 c:5. start winnt32Hi, KyorI also tried to install Winxp via winnt32 in Winpe v2.0 on my UFD.I followed what you posted, but I still met some problems.1. I can't find "bootsect.exe" on my UFD. I followed the steps from WAIK Walkthrough "Create a Bootable Windows PE RAM Disk on UFD", (In LRMOPK_TW.iso, we can find bootsect.exe in the BOOT folder) but I didn't find bootsect.exe in the BOOT folder on my UFD. So I copied it from "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86" to BOOT folder.2. The winnt32.exe will close after "Preparing installation". I followed the steps you mentioned above, I run winnt32.exe without unattended file, I typed the regist key then the setup program went on. But after "Preparing installation", the setup program closed and return to the command line promote.could somebody do me a favort?I've bothered about this for months . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyor Posted March 26, 2007 Author Share Posted March 26, 2007 (edited) 1. I can't find "bootsect.exe" on my UFD. I followed the steps from WAIK Walkthrough "Create a Bootable Windows PE RAM Disk on UFD", (In LRMOPK_TW.iso, we can find bootsect.exe in the BOOT folder) but I didn't find bootsect.exe in the BOOT folder on my UFD. So I copied it from "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86" to BOOT folder.That's correct you have to copy it from your opk kit to your WinPE CD or to a network share.2. The winnt32.exe will close after "Preparing installation". I followed the steps you mentioned above, I run winnt32.exe without unattended file, I typed the regist key then the setup program went on. But after "Preparing installation", the setup program closed and return to the command line promote.could somebody do me a favort?I've bothered about this for months .Normaly, after typing in the reg key the setup Program copies the necessary files to your harddisk andreturn to the command prompt. after that you have to exit winpe. type exit in winpe and remove your winpe source (i.e. USB Stick, CD) Edited March 26, 2007 by kyor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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