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[charlestek]

Thanks Jon, I got the flash drive to boot my lenovo laptop, and I must say the loading and PE are fast, fast. Now if only someone could write a wireless client with WPA2 security for VistaPE. I have to try to build the latest UBCD4Win BartsPE based compilation and see if they have anything better in wireless, but from looking at the forums (Joshua is the only wireless guru), it seems that wireless is stuck at no security or WEP only in a Windows XP based BartsPE.

[JonF]

Wireless ain't easy. It would be much easier if you could use a wired connection ...

[charlestek]

I did a new build and tried to make another flash drive image after formatting the flash to ntfs again. I get a dialog box that says : Windows can't find C:\WinBuilder076\Temp\VistaPE-Core\USB\HPUSBFW.EXE -f
However, I looked in that temp directory and it is there.

When I hit grub and chose my flash drive in the first drop down and say install, it says "bad partition table"

[dera]

In the script '\Projects\VistaPE-Core\Finalize\01-iso-cd-usb.script'
at the Line #63
try to change the script line from this:

ShellExecute,Open,"%TempFolder%\USB\HPUSBFW.exe" -f,"#$q%pFileBox1% #$q"

into this:

ShellExecute,Open,"%TempFolder%\USB\HPUSBFW.exe"

and at Line #66
change the script line from this:

ShellExecute,Open,"%TempFolder%\USB\robocopy.exe","#$q%TargetDir%#$q #$q%pFileBox1% #$q /MIR /FFT"

into this:

ShellExecute,Open,"%TempFolder%\USB\robocopy.exe","#$q%TargetDir%#$q #$q%pFileBox1%\#$q /MIR /FFT"

Try format to NTFS

[PaPeuser]

Hello

charlestek in Grub4Dos window after you pick (Device Name - Disk)
go to Part List hit refresh, click arrow on text box and Part List will now be there
take your pick and install

Thanks dera that did fix a error and now lets me format the drive from script window.
I use to just close both information error messages and install, worked if usb was formated before.

Be VERY CAREFULL of DEVICE you FORMAT

Have a nice day

[charlestek]

Thanks all.

I forgot to say that even though I got the two errors the usb drive still booted my computer ok into VistaPE.

I will make the script changes and try it.

Phil

[_Nada]

Hello, (excuse me for my poor english).

With : Winbuilder 076 + VistaPE 12Rc1 ...

I tried to make a bootable USB.
I had the same error with the HPUSBFW.exe file as charlestek had. So, i modified "the 01-iso-cd-usb.script' script as dera said. Now, it works fine. I always use NTFS file system for my USB flashdrive.

So, now, it works but i'm really suprised by the fact that booting form the USB stick is very very slow. As an example, i can say that :
--> it's 2 (or 3) times slower booting from an USB flashdrive than doing it from a normal CD drive.

In each try, CD or USB, i use the same Winbuilder config : "Multiboot" uses GRUB as bootmanager...
I also tried to use several USB Flash drive : OCZ Rally2, by example, is known to be a good USB flash drive.
The test PC for booting with VistaPE have 2Go of RAM.


So, my question is :

I believed that booting from USB should be faster than doing it from a CD.
Is this normal that booting from an USB flash drive is very very slow, so much slower than booting from a CD ?


Thanks for reply and/or help.

[JonF]

Very slow booting from USB is normal on some systems. Some BIOSes, especailly older ones, set the USB bus to version 1.1 when booting. With a BIOS like that it takes forever to load the RAMDisk image from the flash drive. The rest of the boot is very fast. Which is not a big help.

[_Nada]

Very slow booting from USB is normal on some systems. Some BIOSes, especailly older ones, set the USB bus to version 1.1 when booting. With a BIOS like that it takes forever to load the RAMDisk image from the flash drive. The rest of the boot is very fast. Which is not a big help.

OK. My test PC is an old AMD 4200+ with a DFI nf4-Ultra-D motherboard.
Maybe there are problems with booting using USB 2.0 speed, as you said.

I'll try to test with my new PC.

Thanks for reply.

[mamnet]

Works now with NTFS. I think

[jasonkaplan72]

How do you run these special scripts?