Topic: A layman's call for help  (Read 138 times)

A layman's call for help
« on: October 28, 2020, 11:22:15 PM »

Desaron

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Hi, I'm a service technician and a coworker of mine made a working ISO for Win 10 PE years ago that I've been using. They've since moved on and I'm hoping to make an updated version with more tools. I used the PE ISO to find your website, and have been experimenting with the WinBuilder Win 10 PE SE tool since. I've read through the beginners guide and watched youtube videos, much of the information on how to use the tool and create the ISO seems to be dated. I understand the tool has changed over the years, but I'm not trying to build any custom scripts or insert 3rd party plugins, just use what's already there. As it stands, I've run into multiple roadblocks, all making the instructions you've created less useful than I'd hoped.

I'm only trying to generate a basic ISO first, before complicating things with plugins, just to make sure it's working. The first issue was the sudden redirect after hitting the blue play button and waiting for a moment, to this new Azin project that seems to be generated. Then, trying to create that project didn't work initially because the ISO I had (where ever it was originally from) was wrong. Now, after getting a new ISO from Techbench, I've passed that step. Instead, now it stops at the Azin Downloader stage with the attached error of "could not download BCDEDIT.exe", saying to check my connection and proxy settings. I don't have a proxy (at the moment), I've added the program and ISO folders to Windows Defender exceptions, I've tried both 2009 and 2004 ISOs, enabled networking under tools. What am I missing? Because all network testing is saying my connection is fine. Do I need to forward a port on my router or something? Please help.

Re: A layman's call for help
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2020, 03:42:58 AM »

slore

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There are serval topics about this issue (failed to download BCDEDIT.exe, dism.exe, etc).

* The system registry hive was not found by APT (Win10XPE HomePage)
* Error GWT Download by APT (Win7PE SE HomePage)
* Need Your with this error while building WinPE10 by EI64djc (Win10PE SE HomePage)
* New build error by APT (Win10XPE HomePage)
* build error : unknown error by APT (Win10XPE HomePage)


Try to update the GWT.
 
http://theoven.org/index.php?topic=3239.msg38931#msg38931


(I said the design is bad. if it failed, It still can make build correctly with Windows SYSTEM's dism.exe, bcdedit.exe commands.)
« Last Edit: October 29, 2020, 03:47:08 AM by slore »

Re: A layman's call for help
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2020, 10:50:17 AM »

Jimehc

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from what I have read GWT downloads MS ADK files - MS removed the last known version of BCDEdit that was compatible with Windows 7 -
thus that portion of the ADK download used by GWT failed...
GWT now uses 19041 version of BCDedit which will fail on windows 7 host OS and last I knew DISM was also not included in Windows 7

Re: A layman's call for help
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2020, 02:29:08 PM »

slore

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from what I have read GWT downloads MS ADK files - MS removed the last known version of BCDEdit that was compatible with Windows 7 -
thus that portion of the ADK download used by GWT failed...
GWT now uses 19041 version of BCDedit which will fail on windows 7 host OS and last I knew DISM was also not included in Windows 7

 :confused:

dism.exe and bcdedit.exe is included in Windows 7 for 10+ years.
ila_rendered

Create a bootable boot.wim actually no need to use bcdedit.exe at all.
use Windows ISO's default bcd file that is enough to boot with sources\boot.wim.


 

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