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[ccuappz]

Hi,
Thanks for this site and all your great efforts for giving us such marvelous tools.
This is my first post and I'm in urgent need of creating a Universal xp image.

I downloaded the IMG_XP tool.
Installed FiraDisk and IMDISK. The FiraDisk is present in device manager. But when I run IMG_XP_CREATE and press GO button it shows a message as below:



I tried all 3 methods of installing FiraDisk and all resulted in the same message.

Current running windows folder is in a FAT32 partition.

Target Drive (F:\Image folder) is in NTFS.
Source Drive (Z:\Windows ): a mapped VMware NTFS partition.
HAL location (N: ) mounted ISO image of XP Install CD. (nLite'd ONEPIECE v3.7.0 pack ISO from RyanVM site)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ccuappz]

I tried 0.0.1.18 and 0.0.1.20 to no avail.

[wimb]

Source Drive (Z:\Windows ): a mapped VMware NTFS partition.

Check manually with Windows Explorer if you can find file
Z:\Windows\system32\drivers\firadisk.sys

That is the file that IMG_XP_Create is trying to find.
I don't know why the file is not found.
May be because it is a mapped VMware NTFS partition, instead of a real drive.

You can try to press Yes and Continue to create the image.

And you can try to use IMG_XP_Create to image a real drive.

[ccuappz]

Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Should I install FiraDisk in running OS (HOST)?
Or should I install it in guest OS (which is shut down) and I'm gonna create ghost image from?

I installed FiraDisk on host.

[wimb]

Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Should I install FiraDisk in running OS (HOST)?
Or should I install it in guest OS (which is shut down) and I'm gonna create ghost image from?

I installed FiraDisk on host.

That is the solution, you installed FiraDisk on wrong drive.

FiraDisk must be installed in the drive that you are going to image.
Remember you want to boot the Image from FiraDisk RAMDISK, so FiraDisk driver must be inside the Image.
So before shut down you have to install FiraDisk and ImDisk.

Read again Section 2 of http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=23553

[ccuappz]

Thanks
I installed guest OS from a customized xp ISO. This ISO was an nlite'd Onepiece pack (lotsa hotfixes and applications) and other addon packs.

What I didn't do when customizing that image for guest OS was integrating mass storage.
Is there any way to create universal image from this VMware image?
Or should I create another slipstreamed image+mass storage drvivers and install it again on VMware?

[wimb]

Thanks
I installed guest OS from a customized xp ISO. This ISO was an nlite'd Onepiece pack (lotsa hotfixes and applications) and other addon packs.

What I didn't do when customizing that image for guest OS was integrating mass storage.
Is there any way to create universal image from this VMware image?
Or should I create another slipstreamed image+mass storage drvivers and install it again on VMware?

For now just give it a try.
Later you can do the other approach.

[ccuappz]

Thanks for your prompt replies wimb
Really appreciate...

For now just give it a try.

You mean I can create a universal image from current guest? (It didn't have slipstreamed mass sotarge in its installation media)

I hope it works 'coz re-installing applications on this guest takes a lot of time...
I'm gonna deploy this guest on other physical machines.

Thanks