Comments on: Injecting Intel Matrix Mass Storage Drivers into a Windows XP WIM

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:02:45 +0000

Nevermind! I fail to read!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:01:21 +0000

Found this by accident, and it looks like a great tip also for repairing broken storage drivers when updates. I have one question though, you have “ClassGUID”=”{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}” listed in the Reg file. What did you do to get that long hex ID?

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:15:14 +0000

s0n, I’m not sure why it’s prompting you for the file. You could try copying the iaStor driver files to sysprep\i386 and then adding that folder to the OEMPnPDriversPath in Sysprep.inf.
Example:

OEMPnPDriversPath=WINDOWS\drivers;sysprep\i386

By: s0n-

s0n- — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:57:02 +0000

This works great for me but it looks like its prompting me for the iaStor.sys file on sysprep although it is located within system32\Drivers and once i point it there it works fine. Any idea?

By: Boyd

Boyd — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:49:51 +0000

Hey Andy,

Glad I could help. PSU has a lot of different IT departments, and not every department handles imaging the same way. While PSU as whole does not use USB drives to image machines, the department I work in (Classroom and Lab Computing) does for the lab computers. Additionally, we share this image with other PSU departments as part of our Cooperative Lab Management initiative. We use USB drives because they are much faster and more reliable than CD/DVD drives. Another reason we use USB drives is because they are much easier to update them compared to CD/DVDs.

When the image is updated, we use a robocopy command that copies the new files from a network share to the USB key. We also have a batch file for formatting the USB drive to make it bootable (which essentially is a series of DISKPART commands). For us, this is much faster than burning new DVDs and distributing them to every staff member that needs it.

Thanks for the comments,

Matt

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:29:32 +0000

Great post, really helped me out.

Ghost can edit ntfs partitions and has a for a while. To make the registry changes navigate to the system hive, drag it to a folder on your machine, edit it and drag it back.

PSU uses disk keys to image their machines? What happens when you update an image?

By: Boyd

Boyd — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:45:35 +0000

The easiest way would be to add the command “cd \” to edit the startnet.cmd file that’s in the WinPE image. startnet.cmd is in the System32 folder of the WinPE image.

By: Brooklynzoo81

Brooklynzoo81 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:43:49 +0000

Hello again. I was finally able to create that Winpe CD disk with ghost and imagex. The question i have now is would you know on how to change to default path of X:\Windows\system32 to lets say just X: on boot up? thanks.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:15:27 +0000

If you have any questions about creating the WinPE image I’ll be happy to try and answer them. I use it a lot.

By: Brooklynzoo81

Brooklynzoo81 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:01:21 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply on this. I am just getting stuck and confused on trying to create this WinPE CD with ghost.