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August 20, 2007 at 07:22 AM
bgalliford

Image a HP E-pc, Anyone been able to do it?

by bgalliford . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

Here is my issue. I have been trying to get these HP E-pc’s imaged for the last couple days. I get an error every time I get done with the image and try to reboot into windows to finish the install.


Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \system32\hal.dll. Please re-install a copy of the above file.

So, the thing is these computers are EXACTLY the same. I am not sure why I am getting HAL errors. At first we thought it may just be a corrupted file and that it just so happened hal.dll.. But a second image returned the same thing.

I think that the issue has something to do with my sysprep.inf


;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386
OemSkipEula=Yes
TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=you will never guess!!
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
AutoLogon=Yes
AutoLogonCount=1
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=20
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx
FullName=”Name of place”
OrgName=”Name of place”
ComputerName=*

[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
Xresolution=1024
YResolution=768
Vrefresh=60

[Identification]
JoinDomain=domain.local
DomainAdmin=domain\administrator
DomainAdminPassword=You will never guess me!!!

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Branding]
BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Proxy]
Proxy_Enable=0
Use_Same_Proxy=0

[sysprep]
BuildMassStorageSection=Yes

I think I need to have some stuff under

[SysprepMassStorage]

But I am not sure..

Any advice is welcome!!

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