Kucht Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Hi!I tried to start WinPe from an USB-Stick following this HowTo: http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/ar...4-machines.aspxThe WinPe from the WAIK begins to start but then an error occurs:Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. Error 0xc000000f. Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.Tried it with some clients but everytime this error occurs. Thought this WAIK-WinPe should run on "normal" PCs... Maybe someone has an idea about what to do to get this PE up.Thanks!Kucht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silacomalley Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 I have this happen quite a bit when I am messing around with usb sticks & just generaly testing & experimenting with pe tools etc. I find that most of the time I go ahead & make sure I re-partition & reformat the USB stick with diskpart ver 6, off of Vista (usually a WinPE CD). Reinstall winpe and it works fine after this.The other thing is that I have installed my USB sticks as a fixed hard drive, not a removable drive/device. This enables me to access it like any other hard drive in MMC disk manager, within windows, which ultimately lets me create partitions & manipulate itas I would any other IDE/SATA drive.The guide I first used for creating a bootable USB WinPE is here....http://www.svrops.com/svrops/articles/winvistape2.htmI have never had any problems with this, other than screwing things up myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silacomalley Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 (edited) The only thing I can see from reading your above link, is that maybe Roberts way of making the USB bootable by using the bootsect /nt60 X: command, as opposed to using xp or vista's native partition tools, which will create a basic MBR, (pertaining to NTLDR for XP & Bootmgr for Vista), is copying over a custom bootloader. The boot sector from the AIK, presuming it is ripped from an ISO may be different from a regular bootsector & MBR. Other than this, I cannot see any other reason.I would go ahead & create a CD winpe & test that, and you may wanna' check how your bios is looking at your USB stick. I could be barking up the wrong tree here, but I hope this helps you resolve your issue. Edited April 27, 2007 by silacomalley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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