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magni
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  08:18:09 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello.
My problem is the following:
i followed all the steps from the ppt included in ss.zip. Got to the part where i need to copy image.vhd back to c:

I put the image.vhd on my d: partition, now i need to robocopy it back to c:

the command i input is:
robocopy d:\imagefiles c:image.vhd /mt:30 (as explained in the ppt, i used 30 when creating the image.vhd)

i get an error saying that source does not exist. i tried entering my d: drive, and it's empty.

ps: tried every combination of the robocopy command such as:
robocopy d:\imagefiles c:\image.vhd /mt:30
robocopy c:\imagefiles d:\image.vhd /mt:30
robocopy c:\imagefiles d:image.vhd /mt:30
robocopy d:\ c:\ /MIR
...

nothing worked. I'm putting a fresh copy of win7 enterprise now for the third time, gonna try it again.

ps: do i have to use an external hard drive when doing the cvt2vhd part, is that the problem perhaps?

Btil Entrails
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  12:51:13 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Check to see if you are missing a "\" backslash in the script.

Posted above you used the following, "robocopy c:\imagefiles d:image.vhd /mt:30" and it looks as if you are missing a backslash after the "d:".

I think it should be, "robocopy c:\imagefiles d:\image.vhd /mt:30".
Chris

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magni
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Posted - 12/10/2012 :  05:51:24 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
yeah I know the backslash was missing, I tried it with the backslash, still didn't work. It's like my partitions get deleted and robocopy doesn't know from where to copy. Is there a command in that part of the process that shows my hard drive partitions and their lettering?

Been trying for 4 days now to do the robocopy, and i always get the "can't find source" message.

At that point i can enter c: and see with dir what i have on it, but i can't enter d: where my image.vhd is. That is my problem, what happened to d: ?
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Mark Minasi
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Posted - 01/11/2013 :  3:27:03 PM  Show Profile  Visit Mark Minasi's Homepage  Reply with Quote
From the WinPE command prompt, just do DIR C:\, DIR D:\ etc to figure out which drive your files are on. Then use those drive letters in the robocopy command.

Or you're welcome to use XCOPY if you're more comfortable with that.
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