Vista, WDS and iastor driver

Steve Gauvin

Hi,

I have a Dell Latitude D830 laptop. To install a Windows Vista with no
customization from a WDS, I have add the install.wim image from my Windows
Vista CD to my WDS server.

When I use this image to install on my laptop, when the laptop reboot, I
receive an error on the iastor.sys driver. I have open my install.wim image
to add the driver from dell with the command pkgmgr and I have successfully
re-install the image.

After making all modifications to my laptop (install all drivers, all
software...), I have make a sysprep to captyre the HD to my WDS server.
When I deploy my new custom image form my Dell D830 laptop on another Dell
D830, I have the same on the file iastor.sys.

How I can solve this problem because I have check in my image for all
oemx.inf file to see if my driver from dell are there and I see it.

Thanks,

Steve

breich

If you haven't solved this problem yet for yourself, this is what I did to get my D830's working with WDS.

1. In WDS, right-click the install image and extract the image (I extract mine to E:\Working.wim).
2. Make sure you have Microsoft WAIK installed.
3. Open a WAIK command prompt.
4. Create a temporary folder where we can mount the WIM image: mkdir E:\work
5. Mount the WIM Image: imagex /mountrw E:\working.wim 1 E:\work
6. Download and extract the Intel Active Matrix Storage Driver to a temporary path (E:\intel)
7. At the comment prompt, add the driver to the boot image by running: peimg /inf=E:\intel\*.inf E:\work
8. Commit the changes: imagex /unmount /commit E:\work
9. Back in WDS, overwrite the old boot image by right-clicking it, selecting Replace Image, and selecting the extracted image we just changed (E:\working.wim).
10. Now attempt to use WDS on the Dell D830. If that doesn't work, you can always load the Active Matrix Storage driver using a thumb drive. But I will promise you that that driver is causing your problem : )

Hope this helps!!