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Sysprep gone horribly wrong

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Today I spent almost whole day trying to solve a problem. The problem was “The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click “OK” to restart the computer, and then restart the installation.” In retro-aspect it was just a little registry that needed to be changed. Here [...]

Moving EPiServer Dev Environment from IIS6 to IIS7

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Last week I had to recreate a development environment for a EPiCMS 5 SP1 R2 (a mouth full), the problem was all I had to go from was the production environment. The production is running on Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and so on. So i started by just copying the EPiServer [...]

Install Windows NT 6.x [Vista/2008/7]

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Installing Windows NT 6.x from USB is almost as easy as installing from a DVD. Just do: Copy all the files from DVD to USB root Open a command prompt windows (Administrator Mode) Goto X:\Boot (where x: is your USB drive) [crayon highlight="false"]x:[/crayon] Run (again where x: is your USB drive) [crayon highlight="false"]bootsect /nt60 x:[/crayon] [...]

Test Booting VHD from USB

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Conclusion: It is not supported!.. It looks like you need more then just bootmgr for booting a vhd. And these components will only be available on Windows 7 Ultimate and Enterprise Plus Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. Plus i think it is enough with WIM support under bootmgr. Windows does not support booting to [...]

Install Windows 7 with UNetBootin

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I installed both Windows 7 Beta and Windows 7 RC1 with UNetBootin (with a little tweak). I was successful to boot WinPE 2, WinPE 2.1 and WinRE 3 RC1 with UnetBootin. I would guess Windows 7 RTM will have no problem either. Instructions (Installing from ISO): Download UNetBootin Download Win7 Syslinux Hack Use UNetBootin to [...]