Can anyone help or point me in the right direction as I'm sure I'm just missing a step somewhere. Download Microsoft Office/Windows Activator Free. Our microsoft toolkit 2.7.0 actually supports all windows versions. I'm struggling to find any good information on deploying XP using MDT2008 - particularly for devices which need SATA support. Microsoft toolkit 2.7.0 version now support windows 8.1 and office 2013. When you reboot the workstation, it then bluescreens with an Inaccessible Boot Device message and it appears not to have loaded the SATA drivers into XP.Īll I can figure is that there is a MININT folder prior to the reboot which is no longer there afterward so I am guessing that the initial boot is done from MININT which has the relevant drivers but that the full reboot boots from WINDOWS which doesn't. The machine then reboots and all seems well as it comes up, goes through the mini setup and then you can use the machine successfully. If you are unable to activate it using the EZ Activator. The target machine is then PXE booted to the MDT WinPE environment via the WDS server (same machine as MDT is installed on) and the image is copied across including the driver injection scripts. Can I activate XP Windows using MS Toolkit Yes, sure you can activate Windows XP by using this toolkit. I then image the machine by booting to the MDT WinPE environment, mapping a drive to the deployment share and creating a WIM image using ImageX.Īll of the drivers for this model of laptop are in the MDT driver repository The sysprep.inf tells it to do a full hardware detect during minisetup and the drivers for the SATA controller are definitely installed prior to the sysprep. I've built the machines using the Lenovo-supplied XP downgrade utility, added some custom applications which I want to be pre-installed and customised a SYSPREP.INF file and run sysprep to reseal the machine.

I'm trying to deploy a custom XP WIM image to some new Lenovo laptops using MDT2008.

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