OK, I'm probably going to get shot for this, but I really can't remember why in 8.1SE (64bit PE build, hostOS=W7) disk management is stuck at "Loading Disk Configuration Info".
With Win8PESE, I always use ctrl-sh-0 to bring up disk management (prior to using WinNTSetup). This week, I was making new install.wim files for w7 and w8, and deciced to do this on three systems at the same time. One using Win8PESE, the other Win8.1SE (I was testing if 8.1SE would be my new "standard" toy, to replace Win8PESE).
So this diskmanagement delay/ freeze was the only thing that was a deal breaker. Again, it must be my own fault (as usual), but can somebody please remind my what's going on? Thanks!