Hi Folks
I had been play around BartXPE for more than 1 year. I am very grateful for the information this forum provided. It really helped.

Here is the situation:
I had no problem boot BartsXPE+Sherpya’s plugins from CD-R. I had been try to make it boot from a hard disk. The problem I had is after boot from HDD while xpeinit.exe is running is come out some error like this:
“Error while executing ||xpeinit.exe -m "Installing MSClient" bartPE.exe -c c -i ms_msclient”

After the Xpeinit.exe finished loading, I only have a screen with XP’s defaut page but without the normal desktop ( no task bar, no start button, no right click mouse button.). But I can press Ctrl+ALT+DEL activat task manager and run some program from there(but not explore or IE).

Here are the ways I had done.
1) Using “BartPE Installer v2” plugin script.
2) Using instructions like this one:

To create a bootable WinPE disk (32-bit versions of WinPE)
***Please note this is only the instructions on how to install WinPE and WinPE only to the hard drive, you must modify these instructions to get a "Dual boot"***

Boot the destination computer into WinPE using a WinPE CD.
Create a formatted and active partition.
On the active partition, create a directory called C:\Minint. You must name the directory "Minint".
Copy the contents of build_location\i386 to C:\Minint.
For example:

xcopy "C:\Build.x86\i386\*.*" C:\Minint /S
where C:\Build.x86 is build_location.

Copy Ntdetect.com from build_location to the root of the destination hard disk.
For example:

xcopy "C:\Build.x86\ntdetect.com" C:\
where C:\Build.X86 is build_location.

On the destination hard disk, copy C:\Minint\setupldr.bin to C:\ntldr.
For example:

xcopy "C:\Minint\setupldr.bin" C:\ntldr
Restart the destination computer. The computer starts using WinPE.

3) Copy the files over base on the 2) idea.


No luck. Always stuck at the same problem.

If I only use Bart’s default plugins, I do not have problems boot from HDD or CD..
Just wondering what did I do wrong?

Here is my plugin and I am using XPSP2.

Thanks!

Louis

Read Troubleshooting FAQs
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15138

You have to include a file emptyregdb.dat.

Try in addition:
Boot windows, not BartPE, copy BartPE registry files to hard disk.

Did you read WinPE section "All about the Windows Preinstallation environment (not related to PE Builder)" last year?
There is a PEBuilder section.

Thanks cdob,

I could not find the topic "All about the Windows Preinstallation environment". I am not sure I read it or not.

Here is what I had tried today:
1)enable the line in in xpe.inf
"; WinXPE on HD - you need emptyregdb.dat from system32 dir
grpconv.exe=2
comempty.dat=2,emptyregdb.dat
emptyregdb.dat=2,,4
files\emptyregdb.dat=2,,4
"

2) rebuild all the file using PE builder v3.1.3

3) Mount the HDD to winxp pro and copy all the files over again.

4) Build ISO

5) test the HDD. (same problem)

6) test the iso (no problem)

Troubleshoot:
1) Found the emptyregdb.dat in the HDD directory.
2) Remount the HDD to XP pro and copy all the file again.

Still the same problem.

Did I missied any steps?

Thank you very much!

Louis Lu

What he means is, this is the winpe section, not the bartPE one.
Try just copying emptyregdb.dat into the c:/minint/system32/ folder on your hd.