How-to: Create a universal windows XP image using mysysprep.exe and VM Ware

[ssx4life]

Mike thanks for the email. If you want to have full driver support for Windows XP using the SAD method you can do it once of two ways.

#1. Build a snapin for SAD2 using SFX Maker and push the .exe to the client computer, running the correct drivers
#2. Place the SAD2 folder [B]ANYWHERE[/B] but the sysprep folder. The root of would be just fine. I’ve seen people put it in C:\Drivers and then once the .cmd is run using the runonce command from sysprep they run a second script to delete the folder contents. A good example of this is andyroo on our forums who has a windows 7 walkthrough who also uses the driverpacks - [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url] . See his batch script below

[B]Delete drivers from C:[/B] (change “SAD2-111118” to what ever name you have your folder as)
[CODE]
@ECHO OFF

rd /s/q C:\D

DEL /F /S /Q /A “C:\Drivers\SAD2-111118”

rd /s/q C:\Drivers\SAD2-111118

EXIT[/CODE]

Don’t forget you can create this .cmd file and place it in the same location as your driverpacks, and have it be run by sysprep (runonce command) It will not only delete itself, but take out anything inside the folder as well, leaving you with a clean installation.

Let me know if you have any questions or need further help

[sid]

Hello

How do you insert the SATA driver into the image. this process will work if AHCI is disabled in the BIOS but what if it is enabled?

[ssx4life]

It should work either way I believe. The Mass Storage drivers included in the sysprep.zip folder cover ATA and ACHI I believe.

Give it a shot.

[boon]

We had to create a separate IDE image for some older devices that do not support AHCI. Otherwise we’d have to set BIOS SATA emulation to IDE on the majority of the machines.

[sid]

here is what I did, I used nlite and integrated the sata drivers and also all the drivers into the xp installation disk, then made an ISO file,
using that ISO I installed windows xp on Sun Virtual Box, then I made a ghost image and tried it on 3 different machines with success, but still waiting on your link fix to sysprep.zip download to try that too.
thanks

[ssx4life]

I have to dig up a copy of this file again, if I can’t i’ll have to re-create it (not hard I have a version in a VM I can use).

give me a bit.

thanks.

[SCSI]

Great tutorial!

Followed your steps but having issues adding the Lan and Masstorage devices in sysprep. After steps 7 and 8 (running spdrvscn v1.3.2 and then sysprep.exe -bmsd), sysprep.inf will contain the inf from C:\Windows\inf and only these three entries from C:\sysprep\drivers. Should there be more entries?

**After scanning C:\sysprep\drivers with spdrvscn, it will report that there are 154 driver entries
**C:\sysprep\drivers contains extracted drivers from DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_1203.7z and DP_LAN_wnt5_x86-32_1202.7z

[CODE][SysprepMassStorage]
pci\ven_1000&dev_0030=c:\sysprep\drivers\m\l\lsi_scsi.inf
pci\ven_1000&dev_0032=c:\sysprep\drivers\m\l\lsi_scsi.inf
pci\ven_104b&dev_1040=c:\sysprep\drivers\m\v\vmscsi.inf[/CODE]

Can you please share your sysprep config? Thanks!

[ssx4life]

Ok so I found my two sysprep.zip folders and I’ll have those re-uploaded shortly.

Sorry for the delay. Life has been busy, and I do this as a hobby on the side.

[buckITall]

Thanks for your time ssx…have you been able to upload the “sysprep.zip” files yet, I can’t seem to find the posted link.

[SMoRZ3]

Does anybody know where you can get an XP Pro OEM disc? I have a Dell version, but it doesn’t take the Perserving OEM Actication key thats provided by Microsoft.

Basically the version I have cant be activated, so then i cant do updates which makes using the VM useless as far as saving time…

Thanks

[ssx4life]

[quote=“buckITall, post: 4074, member: 101”]Thanks for your time ssx…have you been able to upload the “sysprep.zip” files yet, I can’t seem to find the posted link.[/quote]

@sid @buck @scsi

I have been out of the states on work for the last 3 weeks. I won’t be back till the 2nd week in July.

I tried to wake on lan my pc at home, but the packet isn’t getting to my server for some reason, and I can’t remotely turn it on any other way.

Once back I’ll re-host these files.

Thanks for being patient, I’ll get back to you shortly on this.

[ssx4life]

[quote=“SMoRZ3, post: 4430, member: 1375”]Does anybody know where you can get an XP Pro OEM disc? I have a Dell version, but it doesn’t take the Perserving OEM Actication key thats provided by Microsoft.

Basically the version I have cant be activated, so then i cant do updates which makes using the VM useless as far as saving time…

Thanks[/quote]

Legally we can’t distribute these due to copyright law.

Please post your MGADIAG.exe logs so we can better help you

[url]http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.microsoft.com%2Ffwlink%2F%3Flinkid%3D52012&ei=qYzsT_L_O9L1qAH_lLzOBQ&usg=AFQjCNH5Zcs6VID448dqfDkoyf9nzmkx7w&sig2=RpxaEKLIe4K0Q8fzL-_D2Q[/url]

[danuel]

[quote=“ssx4life, post: 2754, member: 268”]
[SIZE=4][U][B]Required Files[/B][/U][/SIZE]

1. sysprep.zip - [url]http://asapload.com/info?id=132110[/url]
2. oemscan.exe (only needed on oem builds of Pro. Run the .exe as a snapin or manually + reboot. It will then be activated if run on a supported oem system (dell hp / compaq / etc.) with a supported OEM SLP key - [url]http://asapload.com/info?id=132109[/url]
   [/quote]

Hi This links don’t open, can upload files again please?

Regards

[boon]

I’ve uploaded the files SSX4LIFE posted here:
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVZnhQUjRSaWFoNHM’]sysprep.zip[/URL]
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVS2R6bXFad1Rka28’]oemscan.exe[/URL]

[SMoRZ3]

How are you fully updating the machine (Windows/Microsoft Updates) if the machine isn’t activated? I just used that SLP key, and my virtual machine can’t update using it… Thanks

[boon]

[URL=‘http://www.autopatcher.com/forums/topic/3108-the-autopatcher-download/’]AutoPatcher[/URL] does the trick.

[SMoRZ3]

Thanks Boon, never heard of this, but I think it might be my new best friend!

[SMoRZ3]

[quote=“boon, post: 4519, member: 833”]I’ve uploaded the files SSX4LIFE posted here:
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVZnhQUjRSaWFoNHM’]sysprep.zip[/URL]
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVS2R6bXFad1Rka28’]oemscan.exe[/URL][/quote]
Boon, Thanks for posting the “snap in” version of OEMScan.

[ssx4life]

[quote=“boon, post: 4519, member: 833”]I’ve uploaded the files SSX4LIFE posted here:
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVZnhQUjRSaWFoNHM’]sysprep.zip[/URL]
[URL=‘https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6xOimbg2JqVS2R6bXFad1Rka28’]oemscan.exe[/URL][/quote]

Thanks boon for covering me while I was out of the states.

i got back today, and was about to upload them when I find you’ve taken care of it

thanks.

[ssx4life]

[quote=“SMoRZ3, post: 4552, member: 1375”]Boon, Thanks for posting the “snap in” version of OEMScan. :)[/quote]

As a friendly reminder (I made that snapin). That if you run it as a snapin you will want to flag it for a reboot.

If you run the .exe as a stand alone and reboot it will also work (handy for a flash key)

Again… oemscan.exe will ONLY work on XP home / pro / MCE2K5, and will ONLY auto activate if you have an SLP key on oem hardware

Enjoy!