Booting to WinPE disc = 0xc000000f required device is inaccessible
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:24 PMSteps so far:
1) I prepared a new machine using a clean install of Win7 RTM x64, installed all of our productivity apps, then ran sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown
2) On another machine, I created a WinPE ISO using the Win7 AIK and burned it to a DVD.
Next step is to capture the image and upload it to a fileserver. However, I can't even boot into the PE environment. Every time I try, I get
Status: 0xc000000f
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
I've tried creating both x86 and x64 WinPE DVDs -- same result. Tried several, in fact, to ensure it's not due to a burn error. I am not doing any customizations to the ISO other than copying the appropriate version of imagex.exe to the root directory.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:46 PM Just created a x64 WinPE DVD with the Vista AIK and a different set of instructions -- it worked. No idea why. * http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709665%28WS.10%29.aspx
- Marked As Answer by Robinson Zhang Friday, September 04, 2009 1:49 AM
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Friday, September 04, 2009 5:27 AM I know why ... I just tried this using win7AIK, with a default iso, and got the same error you did.
when it creates the winpe directory, it doesn't actually boot a default boot.wim file in the ISO\sources directory. I was looking through the instructions you had linked to in your reply, and i noticed that with the technet writeup you linked to, you're supposed to :
copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim C:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim (in effect you're overwriting the one that's already there, only with the win7AIK there wasn't one there...)
so, i copied the winpe.wim into that dir, renamed it to boot.wim, recreated the iso, and it booted.
I wouldn't have been able to figure it out if you hadn't pointed to the other writeup and mentioned that it was a different instruction set.
Thanks, and i hope this helps :)- Proposed As Answer by Squuiid Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:24 PM
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:26 PM
I know why ... I just tried this using win7AIK, with a default iso, and got the same error you did.
when it creates the winpe directory, it doesn't actually boot a default boot.wim file in the ISO\sources directory. I was looking through the instructions you had linked to in your reply, and i noticed that with the technet writeup you linked to, you're supposed to :
copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim C:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim (in effect you're overwriting the one that's already there, only with the win7AIK there wasn't one there...)
so, i copied the winpe.wim into that dir, renamed it to boot.wim, recreated the iso, and it booted.
I wouldn't have been able to figure it out if you hadn't pointed to the other writeup and mentioned that it was a different instruction set.
Thanks, and i hope this helps :)
Awesome. Gotta love how the Windows 7 documentation sucks.
Thanks very much Christopher, this works. -
Saturday, December 05, 2009 8:24 PMThis solved my problem. I had previously attempted to burn multiple CD's (x86, amd64, single processor, multi-processor) and NOTHING worked. Always received an error. After doing the copy of winpe.wim into the iso\sources\boot.wim, the winpe disk worked fine.
Thanks for your help.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:40 PM
Thank you so much for this. I'm attempting to study to sit the 70-680 test. Couldn't get WinPE to boot, figured it had to be an issue with WinPE and VirtualBox. Tried all kinds of things then finally decided to install the Win7AIK on hardware (rather then virtual) but got the same problem. Then I searched and ran across this thread. I'm glad to know that the directions in the study book are wrong. Thankfully I wanted to actually try things and learned the issue with the Win7AIK. Thanks again for finding the issue.
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:18 AMMan I hate this book already, so many mistakes, I to tried it on diff machines and different combinations, as soon as I found this post and followed the instructions it worked straight away. They really need to check what they write in the books and make sure the syntax and commands actually work before they publish them, all it does is cause alot of hassle when all we are trying to do is follow instructions.....
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Monday, January 04, 2010 3:48 PM
Thanks Richard for the link.
Thanks to all who read and commented.
It should also be noted that the instructions here are also incorrect:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749311(WS.10).aspx
Fortunately, someone commented there as well stating:
"Dont forget to add boot.wim
The instructions in step two leave out one important step. The sources directory must have a boot.wim file.
Here is the command:
xcopy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\iso\sources\boot.wim /y"- Proposed As Answer by Ahmad Habib Friday, April 12, 2013 10:17 PM
- Unproposed As Answer by Ahmad Habib Friday, April 12, 2013 10:17 PM
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:04 PM
I know why ... I just tried this using win7AIK, with a default iso, and got the same error you did.
when it creates the winpe directory, it doesn't actually boot a default boot.wim file in the ISO\sources directory. I was looking through the instructions you had linked to in your reply, and i noticed that with the technet writeup you linked to, you're supposed to :
copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim C:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim (in effect you're overwriting the one that's already there, only with the win7AIK there wasn't one there...)
so, i copied the winpe.wim into that dir, renamed it to boot.wim, recreated the iso, and it booted.
I wouldn't have been able to figure it out if you hadn't pointed to the other writeup and mentioned that it was a different instruction set.
Thanks, and i hope this helps :)
thanks soooo much for your extremely help,thanks for everyone who help to solve our problem,this problem make me highly angry,
but i haven't problem anymore. -
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:43 PMthanks richard ,thanks alot..
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:17 AMThanx for ur help! it worked for me! it was driving me crazy until I saw ur solution! thanx a lot!
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Thursday, March 04, 2010 12:54 PM
Thanks JuliusPIV.
Now it works :-)
Regards Thomas -
Monday, March 29, 2010 10:08 PM
Christopher Mead,
Thanks that was it. I figure this is just another hidden 'test' in the Find the Error in Microsoft Documentation game.
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Monday, March 29, 2010 10:08 PM
Christopher Mead,
Thanks that was it. I figure this is just another hidden 'test' in the Find the Error in Microsoft Documentation game.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:53 AMWow! Thanks! Why hasn't this been fixed in the documentaion? I wasted a dozen or more CD's trying to get this working - x86 and 64 Bit - different DVD burners, different motherboards, etc. Easily 4 hours wasted trying to figure this out! (I even figured out that the .wim file wasn't in the image, but didn't know I'd have to rename the file!
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Friday, April 23, 2010 2:52 PMThanks...I was determined to get this working in the manner described in the book even though I have created winpe boot disks for vista from articles on the internet previously.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:35 AMThanks a lot Christopher! I'm also studying for exam 70-680 and this turned out to be very helpful for me. I just created a brand new user to thank you!
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Sunday, May 23, 2010 4:24 AM
Awesome, Thanks a lot Richard and Chris. Using the MS Press 70-680 Training Kit and finding various mistakes along the way.
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Monday, May 24, 2010 10:08 AM Hi, Many thanks to Richard and Christopher- bit behind the times with this one but this page has helped yet another confused Win7 customer!
- Proposed As Answer by ovonier Tuesday, June 15, 2010 12:57 PM
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:59 PM
Thanks for this - I've spent the best part of a week playing with this assuming the problem was because I was using Virtual PC for my Reference Install or capturing the ISO for the WinPE CDROM rather than actually burning it!
It didn't help either that the example on Page 68 of the 70-680 Training Kit already contained a typo for the OSCDIMG command used to generate the problematic WinPE CD! The KB aticle here fixes that typo and several others in the same book http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978189
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Monday, July 12, 2010 10:16 AM
Ok, I must be missing something because I still have the error message. I've copied the .wim file and renamed it and re-burned the ISO several times to no avail. Please someone HELP!
- Proposed As Answer by jayruguitar Monday, July 19, 2010 6:34 PM
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Monday, July 19, 2010 6:35 PM
Woops, first time posting.
Run the oscdimg command again to create a new .iso w/ the boot.wim in the sources directory as Chris specified earlier. Worked for me. You da man Chris!
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 11:05 AMI am studying for the 70-682 exam. Yes, I also had the same problem too until I found this thread. Great , it is working now for me as well. Actually it was also already a little bit suspicious to me that the ISO file has been only 27 MB large.
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Friday, August 13, 2010 10:14 PMThanks, Richard for this. I cannot tell you how helpful this was. I had no idea this publication was such ____. I honestly feel lucky to know enough about command-line syntax to have spotted some of the errors in the book previous to this. This problem was driving me insane, and it is not even listed on the publishers site. Hours of my life wasted...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:47 PMMate thank you SO much I've been pulling my hair out with this one!
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:58 AMThanks so much, it worked a treat. :)
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Friday, September 24, 2010 10:20 AMBrilliant!
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Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:21 AMThank you amigos! I was going nuts with making so many coasters :P
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Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:52 PM
Thank you, like many others I expect, I was tearing my hair out with the 70-680 book p84-85 practice instructions. You have helped a lot, thank you Christopher. :)
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Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:49 PMI had to do something a little different than the suggested fix. I copied the boot.wim to the sources folder in the root of the disk, and not the iso\sources folder. Give it a try.
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Friday, October 29, 2010 7:28 PMThis helped me too. I'm wondering if the Microsoft Press book 70-680 was even edited... not the only thing wrong in it.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:10 PM
copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim C:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim (in effect you're overwriting the one that's already there, only with the win7AIK there wasn't one there...)
You rock, man! This solved my problem.
Thank you!!!!!
Gianluigi Zanettini - http://www.megalab.it -
Thursday, December 09, 2010 7:46 PMTHANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
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Monday, February 07, 2011 4:36 AMTHANKS! much appreciated!
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:27 PMThank you All!
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Saturday, February 12, 2011 1:41 AM
Good show chris...
Thanks
Vijay,
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:24 PM
Worked like a charm for me.
At least somebody is getting things right for Microsoft...
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Friday, April 15, 2011 7:54 PMI have tried your instructions and copied the winpe.wim file to the iso\sources directory and renamed it boot.wim, and yet when I burn the WinPE boot disk and try to boot from it, I still get the same error. I admit I'm using a non-genuine version of Windows 7, but I don't think this should make a difference. Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?? I'm so frustrated with Microsoft!!!
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Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:37 AM
Very very very Thank it work.
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Thursday, June 09, 2011 8:11 PMWow, a classic "fix" goes on forever. I salute you. My frustrating day finally turned bright when this fix worked for me.
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Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:23 PMChristopher and Richard I think you two should be the ones writing these books. Thanks for your help I will be on the look out for errors like this when i get stuck again.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:43 AMThanks! This worked! I love you.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:50 PMWho ever you work for they have an asset in you. Thanks to you I solved this same problem. Cheers Mate!
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Monday, November 21, 2011 5:02 PM
Same problem here, thanx for the post.
It 's very strange that after 2 years Microsoft still using the same documentation in WAIK and in the 70-680 training kit.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:50 PMThanks!! I thought is was strange that my first .iso was only 29MB. After copying the winpe.wim to ISO/sources and renaming to boot.wim, I recreated the .iso and it is now over 139MB.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:26 AM
in my case, i have a same problem earlier. rather than copy and renameing in same like.
i did this manually using graphical mode and burn the iso image.
this time it works. dont know what was the reason on more think i kept destination image file winpe_x86.iso
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Monday, May 07, 2012 8:08 PM
Many thanks to you two (Christopher and Richard). Two years later this is still helping people. Unbelievable!
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:25 AM
yes thanks you very much for this information
si vous avez l'erreur 0xc000000f
copier le fichier winpe.wim présent dans c:\winpe\winpe.wim dans C:\winpe\iso\sources\ puis le renommer en boot.wim
puis créer et graver votre iso
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Friday, May 25, 2012 11:44 PMThank-you dude! I was studying for the 70-682 exam by reading the 70-680 book and thought what the hell is going on with my Windows PE ISO!!!
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Monday, July 23, 2012 11:00 PMJust to say thank you for the help.
Saved me a headache.Se o post ajudou, indique e informe os demais.
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Monday, August 06, 2012 1:07 PM
Does this also work if I use the Windows Vista AIK?
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:09 PM
Thank you Chris!
I'm actually using this in production to capture an image. The dept for the State of FL for which I work won't pony-up for Ghost, so we get to figure out how to use these convoluted Microsoft tools. I suppose there is always Clonezilla! But then I can't use an unattend file.
Anyway, for you test takers, here's a question: will the correct test answers be based on the incorrect information that Microsoft supplied in their documentation?
- Edited by YellowSnow Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:10 PM typo
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Sunday, August 19, 2012 11:34 AM
I know why ... I just tried this using win7AIK, with a default iso, and got the same error you did.
Thanks a bunch! You saved my butt there.
when it creates the winpe directory, it doesn't actually boot a default boot.wim file in the ISO\sources directory. I was looking through the instructions you had linked to in your reply, and i noticed that with the technet writeup you linked to, you're supposed to :
copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim C:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim (in effect you're overwriting the one that's already there, only with the win7AIK there wasn't one there...)
so, i copied the winpe.wim into that dir, renamed it to boot.wim, recreated the iso, and it booted.
I wouldn't have been able to figure it out if you hadn't pointed to the other writeup and mentioned that it was a different instruction set.
Thanks, and i hope this helps :)
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Monday, September 24, 2012 1:05 PMThank you, before I started to tear my hear out and eat a bag of pot I decided to google for this and found this thread. Some instructions in the exam book arent right or should be given before. It works now tnx a bunch.
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Sunday, February 03, 2013 12:07 PM
Wow! Richard and Chris many thanks for this. I am so glad that this thread is still running. I am studying towards my 70-680 which i will be taking in March. When I got to this point in the book everything seemed to be going fine until I had to boot form the disc. I was surprised that the boot image was only 27MB but just figured this must be how it is. This lesson was only supposed to take me 50 minutes but took me a whole day because I was pulling my hair out, putting together new machines to boot from the WinPe disc. Once again many thanks to Richard and Chris!!
On a more serious note Microsoft seriously need to address this issue! People are willing to spend the extortionate amount of money for the MS Press Books but if the books do not contain the correct information then Microsoft are not living up to their side of the bargain!
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