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[FatTwinkie]

Howdy guys!

Upon building a new PE, I get this error which wont allow me to go any further:

"wiminfo.exe Unable to find file" 1.xml !!!

In: E:\WinBuilder\Windows 7 ISO\Sources\install.wim"

That last bit is where my Windows 7 ISO source files are at. Its a separate hard drive and that follows exactly where all the source ISO files are at yet WinBuilder is telling me it can not find the source.

Anybody have any clue?

[sbaeder]

Howdy guys!

Upon building a new PE, I get this error which wont allow me to go any further:

"wiminfo.exe Unable to find file" 1.xml !!!

In: E:\WinBuilder\Windows 7 ISO\Sources\install.wim"

That last bit is where my Windows 7 ISO source files are at. Its a separate hard drive and that follows exactly where all the source ISO files are at yet WinBuilder is telling me it can not find the source.

Anybody have any clue?

Hard to have a clue with out a LOG file...So save the log file and post it on a file sharing site, then give us the link to it.

What source are you using??? Enterprise??? or Retail??? SP0 or SP1???

Have you followed any of the siple step by step tutorials or read any of the other posts here ???

[FatTwinkie]

Hard to have a clue with out a LOG file...So save the log file and post it on a file sharing site, then give us the link to it.

What source are you using??? Enterprise??? or Retail??? SP0 or SP1???

Have you followed any of the siple step by step tutorials or read any of the other posts here ???

Here is the link to the log file:

http://www.mediafire...og_7/30/11.html

My source is Windows 7, I've tried using EVERY build of 7 from Starter to Enterprise retail and from my MSDN account downloads (which is what I was using previously just fine before now). I've looked around and never found any other posts, and this hasn't been my first time building a PE I was making all kinds of builds till this one just decided to give me an error. Tried redownloading Win7PE altogether and still no go.

[sbaeder]

Here is the link to the log file:

http://www.mediafire...og_7/30/11.html

My source is Windows 7, I've tried using EVERY build of 7 from Starter to Enterprise retail and from my MSDN account downloads (which is what I was using previously just fine before now). I've looked around and never found any other posts, and this hasn't been my first time building a PE I was making all kinds of builds till this one just decided to give me an error. Tried redownloading Win7PE altogether and still no go.

OK - so you know what your doing - good!....Looks as if path name at top level has a "space" - should be OK, but something to watch for inside some scripts...Safer to not have the space, but I use one, so that's not it.

Looks like you are NOT using a pre-extracted WIM, but instead are trying to mount it...Correct?

Did you go to the images script and do a "save/get info"? That should be done at least ONCE before just running the project. Doesn't look like it is able to load those values out of the project variables.

I would probably also set that script to SHOW the wimtools progress - that may also help you find the issue...(right now, it is not checked, so they are run hidden)

Double check your "tools" area - from the log, it looks as if it can't find a proper imagex/wimfltr set up in the x86/x64 area...(x86 in your case)...Did you switch at any time between SP0 and SP1 sources?

Try cleaning out the tools area and re-extracting from the archive. The scripts should "fetch" the right tools...Also try rebooting, since they may just be confused.

Bottom line, it is falling through to a 7zip attempt to get the "info" (XML file) from the WIM, and failing. If you still want to access via mounting, you need to fix this. Alternative is to extract the WIM contents for the install you want to use. Lots of recent posts on this...

Hope this helps...having more pairs of eyes look at things often helps!

Cheers
Scott

[FatTwinkie]

Lol, I kind of sorta do.

1) Yes correct, I was trying to mount it because that's what I have always done (well until now).

2) I did not do that, but I just tried right now both with extracted boot.wim and install.wim files and mounting and both do not work. When using the extracted files (unless I'm doing something wrong) I get an error saying that it cannot load the registry hives. Here's a log file for that: http://www.mediafire...racted log.html

3) I checked for that option, didn't see anything else after using that option.

4) When I first started using Win7PE, I was using SP0 then out of no where I got the error. Then I tried using SP1 thinking that could help (just maybe lol) and still a no go.

5) Just tried that, no go D:

6) Tried using extracted .wim files, like in number 2, no go D:

[sbaeder]

When using the extracted files (unless I'm doing something wrong) I get an error saying that it cannot load the registry hives. Here's a log file for that: http://www.mediafire...racted log.html

Did you unzip the contents of the right "image" from inside the wim file? In other words was there a full set of files? Try the extract Script that is part of the latest release of the project, and/or see this post where I added a PDF with step by step...

Other than that, I don't see anything?

[FatTwinkie]

Yeah, nothing is working. Just keeps giving me the same errors over and over

[pscEx]

Yeah, nothing is working. Just keeps giving me the same errors over and over

The issue seems to be that both of "%BaseDir%\Projects\Tools\Win7PE_SE\x??\wimgapi.dll" are queried but none of them exists.
I do not have any idea why.

In the some weeks old version I have, they are included.
Maybe the project authors are on the way to becaome lagal, and do not longer include non-distributables in their project.

You should try a new download, and just unzip the "Tools" files.

Please send a "Debug" log:

In WB main window, click Tools. Click "Options" tab, and check "Debug Log" in the middle right.

Peter

[imtall]

I was getting this error too, and I removed the spaces that were in the folder name of my source directory and it started working.

[MedEvil]

Maybe a stupid question, but have you checked, if the xml file does exist in your extracted wim?

[Michael*]

Make sure you have all the updated tools installed.
Just extract over the ones you have and reboot just before each build.

[sbaeder]

I was getting this error too, and I removed the spaces that were in the folder name of my source directory and it started working.

This is the kind of thing that a log file can help the developers fix the scripting to account for some place they forgot to put quotes around a variable that has no spaces, but when expanded by the engine, spaces appear!

I seem to recall you had spaces as well...so maybe try that...

[FatTwinkie]

Sorry for taking so long to reply, school makes me busy all the time, haha.

MedEvil: Yes, I have checked the install.wim to make sure it had the XML file. It was included.

I also did a brand new download of Win7PE and made sure I updated the tools. Still a no go.

Here's the log again with the debug information like requested:

http://www.mediafire..._log_debug.html

[pscEx]

ShellExecute: [Hide] using: [%BaseDir%\Temp\Win7PE_SE\WimInfo\WimInfo.exe] with parameters: ["%BaseDir%\Temp\Win7PE_SE\WimInfo\7z.exe" "%BaseDir%\windows_7_ultimate\sources\install.wim" "%BaseDir%\Temp\Win7PE_SE\WimInfo\WimInfoInstall.ini"]
IniRead - [%BaseDir%\Temp\Win7PE_SE\WimInfo\WimInfoInstall.ini] Section [Attributes] Key [ImageCount] to variable: [%ImageCountVar%] with value []

In the log there are several other empty [] values created by wiminfo.exe.

Maybe you should try a project working w/o WimInfo.exe like nativeEx_multiPE.

BTW: I think that you did not check the "Debug Log", but the "Log original statements"

Peter

[FatTwinkie]

pscEx: I did both, haha. I'll try the project you suggested. Its just weird that one minute Win7PE works and then the next minute it just says F' you and doesn't want to work even though I never changed anything :/

[Donuts]

FYI

I had the same message popping up everytime "Unable to find file 1.xml"

Removed spaces in the directories names and it's now working

[Ryg]

FYI

I had the same message popping up everytime "Unable to find file 1.xml"

Removed spaces in the directories names and it's now working

Did the same thing, it's working now for me to

[Manokaiser]

Did the same thing, it's working now for me to

+1
Same with me

[Waldo23]

I had the same problem. Removed spaces from the directory name where i extracted the win7 image and it worked out fine..