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From: houstonguy78 on 8 Apr 2008 08:51
Hello,

After reading a few other threads on the Dell OEM partition and the hal.dll
error, I was wondering what I could do to image out of the box machines.

My scenario...

Received 98 Dell Latitude D530 laptops that need to get imaged ASAP. Loaded
one with a base image from scratch and editied the boot.ini file to only use
partition 1 (removed the last line in boot.ini) since when it would boot I
would get the message asking what OS to boot from :

Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Professional

Which I don't want...just want it to go straight to the logon window.

I finished the image and captured to the WDS server with no issues.

However, when I try to image any other out of box machine I get the message
that the system cannot boot because HAL.dll is missing or corrupt etc... I
know that this is because of the damn OEM Dell utility partition...which I DO
NOT WANT!

I want one single partition and don't want to have to edit the boot.ini on
the remaining 97 laptops manually to remove the line with partition 2. I
know how to fix this manually in winpe but the key here is automation...this
is a major pain considering we get about 600 pcs a year at my sites!

I know someone else out there has to have seen this issue and come up with
something!

Thank you in advance for ANY input.
From: Andrew E. on 9 Apr 2008 00:43
Youre best bet is to go to:http://www.microsoft.com/technet Locate the
IT forums,or go to:technetmagazine.com (microsoft),the issue has been thru
those columns many times.

"houstonguy78" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After reading a few other threads on the Dell OEM partition and the hal.dll
> error, I was wondering what I could do to image out of the box machines.
>
> My scenario...
>
> Received 98 Dell Latitude D530 laptops that need to get imaged ASAP. Loaded
> one with a base image from scratch and editied the boot.ini file to only use
> partition 1 (removed the last line in boot.ini) since when it would boot I
> would get the message asking what OS to boot from :
>
> Windows XP Professional
> Windows XP Professional
>
> Which I don't want...just want it to go straight to the logon window.
>
> I finished the image and captured to the WDS server with no issues.
>
> However, when I try to image any other out of box machine I get the message
> that the system cannot boot because HAL.dll is missing or corrupt etc... I
> know that this is because of the damn OEM Dell utility partition...which I DO
> NOT WANT!
>
> I want one single partition and don't want to have to edit the boot.ini on
> the remaining 97 laptops manually to remove the line with partition 2. I
> know how to fix this manually in winpe but the key here is automation...this
> is a major pain considering we get about 600 pcs a year at my sites!
>
> I know someone else out there has to have seen this issue and come up with
> something!
>
> Thank you in advance for ANY input.
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