Ghost Solution Suite

I am running Ghost Boot Wizard to try to make a new boot.wim file with customized network and storage drivers.  The boot doesnt seem to actually get the drivers added to it no matter how many times i add and it rebuilds.  I made a copy of the WinPE-512 and in the copy, unselected all storage and network drivers.  I then added 2 custom drivers.  While running "Compressing Windows PE Image", the following comes up:

If I click OK, it says "An error occured when trying to create the boot package."  with Retry or Cancel.  Clicking retry just makes it go away, clicking Cancel brings the blank error box back
Trying to restore with the new boot.wim gives the same missing drivers error, even though they are the only ones (besides the always installed) that are selected

if I then pick that file, I get "WIM file for this configuration of Windows PE is invalid"  this keeps happening when I edit or refresh.

They said the error above is a corrupted WinPE file set.  The solution to make it stop was:
Uninstall Ghost Solution Suite
Delete the Ghost folder from "Program Files\Symantec" and "Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec"
Reinstall Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 with all defaults
Run Live Update from inside the Console, and it will download the newest updates with a clean DB
Wait for it to finish, then reopen the console.
Open Ghost Boot Wizard
Copy WinPE so you do not modify the original
Add drivers to new image, it will take awhile

Indeed it does indicate corrupt wim file. However you do not need to reinstall entire GSS. Extract boot765274524sjhfsdkjfs.wim (or something similar) file from the install cab file rename it to boot.wim and replace the one you will find in c:\doc&sett\all users\application data\symantec\ghost\template\common\winpe\ folder. Then delete boot.wim from c:\doc&sett\all users\application data\symantec\ghost\template\common\winpe-512 folder and restart ghost boot wizard. It will create two brand new wim files for you.

Also, it is very sensible if you run Live update and get all 3 updates installed.

I did do that, but what was happening is that nothing was actually being added to the boot file when it was being made.  The file would uncompress, add, and recompress is less then 2 minutes, and I would either get the retry/cancel error, the exclamation point from above, or nothing would happen.  So i called, and they had me do that.  The boot.wim took over 10 min that time.

I've ran into something almost identical if not the same issue.  I figured it out one I check the McAfee AV Logs, that it was blocking the creationg of the autorun.ini file.  I logged into the console and temporarly disabled the "on demand" and "scheduled scan" and re-ran the disk wizard creation and was able to get a good CD/DVD/USB boot disk.

Hope This Helps

Terry,

It is not about uncompressing WIM file. What I was talking about is deleting both WIMs - Winpe and Winpe-512 and starting afresh. When you start GBW it will then shwo you lengthy dialog (minute or so) when it unwraps both WIMs and then you will have two fresh new WIMs. Then you can start creating your bootable media again.

i was trying replacing them with the boot.wim from data2.cab, but i dont think i just deleted them and let it rebuild.  I will keep that in mind for next time.

Delete them from both folders and put new one from cab file into Winpe folder. GBW will do the rest on next startup. We have done this as a fallback mechanism if something goes wrong with WIM file and since WIM files are not 100% stable things can go wrong on occasions. Because GBW keeps metadata separately from WIM file when you go back to GBW next time and click add/remove drivers GBW will re-add all drivers again so you will only be wasting few minutes in the worst case scenario and your WIM will end up no different to your old one.