http://forum.kaspersky.com/lofiversion/index.php/t57699.html
If you're reading this, you already know there are problems trying to make a Rescue Disk from a Dell-supplied OEM Windows XP installation disk. There are several reasons the process fails with Dell disks: 1) One or more of the Registry files on the Dell installation disk isn't compatible with this operation; 2) There are files in the installed PEBuilder folder on the hard drive that need to be deleted and/or replaced -- but they're write-protected by default, so any attempt to delete them or copy over them gives an error message; 3) Some of the driver files that the Rescue Disk normally looks for on startup are missing.
Bits and pieces of help are strewn throughout various forums on the Web -- an add-on file here, a suggestion there -- but typically the response is the same: "I tried that but it still doesn't work." Nowhere is the entire solution presented in one place in step-by-step fashion. Yes, there is a solution. Despite the posts that say it's impossible, it actually *can* be done!
The workaround resolves the above issues by: 1) Using as a source, Windows installation files that have been copied to the hard disk, where they can be modified, rather than using the installation CD itself, which can't be written to; 2) Un-protecting the files in the PEBuilder folder that need to be deleted or overwritten; and 3) Preventing the Rescue Disk from looking for the missing driver files (that you don't need anyway).
So here goes. I'm sure there will be special situations that the following steps don't cover, but hopefully most Dell users will find this helpful:
I. Copy the Dell Windows Installation CD to the hard drive
Some files on the disk need to be modified. Since the disk isn't writable, you need to copy the entire contents of the disk to the hard drive, where the files *can* be overwritten. This location, rather than the CD, will be used as the "Source" of the installation files.
To do this, open My Computer, right-click on the CD drive icon, then click "Copy", then right-click on the root C:\ directory and click "Paste".
II. Download the latest version of PEBuilder. (As of this writing, it's v. 3.1.3. The link provided in the Kaspersky 7.0 popup actually takes you to an older version -- 3.1.1.0a. Version 3.1.3. can be found at:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download
(You'll probably want to choose the self-installing version, which requires fewer steps than the ZIP version.)
III. Double-click on the pebuilder313.exe file you just downloaded, and install the program to the root C:\ directory as prompted. (Bart Lagerweij, the developer of PEBuilder, recommends it not be installed to "Program Files", "My Documents", or any other sub-folder of C:\ .
IV. Obtain three necessary "helper" files (described below) and save them all to a temporary storage directory of your choice. Later, you'll copy them to the locations where they actually belong. I wish I could say I wrote even one of those files, but they're all the product of others' time and talent.
A. First file: Fixdell.cab
1. Find it at:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/
It has a link about halfway down the page. If you can't find it, use Edit|Find and search the page for "fix dell" (don't forget the space).
2. Save the file to your designated storage directory. If using IE, click the link, then click Save (not Open). If using Firefox, right-click the link and click "Save link as...". (Don't directly click the link, or the file will simply open with nonsense characters.)
B. Second file: Fixdell.cmd
I couldn't find this file on the Web as a download, but here's the code. Copy-and-paste the following into a *PLAIN-TEXT* editor like Notepad (*not* a word-processor like MS-Word or WordPerfect). Save the file under the name "fixdell.cmd". To do that, in the "Save As" dialog box, put the name (including extension) in *quotes* to prevent the *.TXT" file extension from being automatically appended to the file name. (You don't want it to be called fixdell.cmd.txt) Save the file to your designated storage directory.
The code is:
================= (Don't copy this line)
REM Version 1.3
reg query HKU | find /i "pebuilder" > fixdell.txt
for /f %%a in (fixdell.txt) do reg unload %%a
reg load HKLM\DELL setupreg.hiv
subinacl /subkeyreg hkey_local_machine\dell\controlset001\services\iastor\ /objectcopysecurity=hkey_local_machine\dell\controlset001\services
reg unload HKLM\DELL
del fixdell.txt
del /ah setupreg.hiv.log
echo Check output to see if there are any errors.
pause
================= (Don't copy this line)
C. Third file: subinacl.exe (Downloaded as subinacl.msi)
Find it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
Download subinacl.msi to your designated storage directory. You'll expand it later.
V. Now put the three helper files where they belong
A. Fixdell.cab
This file creates a plugin for PEBuilder that tells the Rescue Disk not to look for certain driver files. If you omit this step, you might still make your way to burning a CD, but when you try to boot from it, you'll get an error message saying a particular file couldn't be found. (IASTOR.SYS, CERCSR6.SYS, and AFAMGT.SYS are a few examples), after which the boot process will simply terminate.
To install the plugin:
1. Launch pebuilder.exe
2. In the "Source" box, use the "..." button at the right to navigate to the folder where you copied the Dell Windows Installation disk. (You're actually not going to perform the Build operation at this point, but you can't do the next step unless you've designated a valid Source location.)
3. Click the "Plugins" button (which is now available).
4. Click the "Add" button
5. Navigate to the folder where you stored Fixdell.cab
6. Double-click the file, and click "Open"
7. Once the plugin is installed, use the following method to verify that it's current. (Some older versions of fixdell.cab exist on the Web):
a. Navigate to the PEBuilder313\Plugin\fixdellxp folder. (If the folder doesn't exist, you didn't install the plugin correctly.)
b. Right-click on the file fixdellxp.inf, then click "Open" (*not* "Install"). It should look like this:
[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"
[PEBuilder]
Name="Fix Dell Windows XP OEM boot problems"
Enable=1
[SourceDisksFiles]
iastor.sys=4,,4
a320raid.sys=4,,4
aarich.sys=4,,4
aac.sys=4,,4
cercsr6.sys=4,,4
afamgt.sys=4,,4
nvatabus.sys=4,,4
nvraid.sys=4,,4
If some of the "xxxx.sys=4,,4" lines are missing, you need to add them. (The safest way, to avoid typo's, is to copy-and-paste from the code above, or to copy-and-paste an already existing line and just change the name of the xxxxx.sys driver file.) When done, Save and close.
B. Fixdell.cmd
Copy this file, which you saved to your designated storage area, to the i386 subfolder of the location on the hard disk where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files.
C. Subinacl.exe
The subinacl.msi file installs a file called subinacl.exe to a location that you designate. If you're interested in what subinacl.exe does, it's function is described on the Microsoft page you downloaded it from.
1. Double-click the file subinacl.msi, which you downloaded to your designated storage folder.
2. *DO NOT* accept the default installation location for subinacl.exe. Instead, navigate to the i386 subfolder of the hard disk location where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files, and install it there.
VI. Un-protect the files in PEBuilder313 that need to be overwritten
The build process requires that certain files in PEBuilder be deleted and/or replaced by modified versions. Error messages at this point may include:
Error: loadKey() failed:
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\petmphive" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\petmphive.log" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\setuphiv" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\setuphiv.log" failed
Another common error-message is that a file "can't be accessed because it is being used by another process." Yet when you examine all running processes, none of them has anything to do with those files. I scoured the Web but couldn't find a definitive explanation of why this was happening. This is the part I had to discover myself.
Actually, these files are *not* being used by any other process. They're just write-protected. This becomes a matter of setting Permissions. For those not familiar with Permissions in Windows XP, they're what determine users' rights to a particular file or folder -- anything from "read-only" to "full control."
To make the files accessible to being deleted or over-written:
A. Right-click the PEBuilder folder
B. Click "Properties"
C. Do you see where "Read-only" has a green check-mark? Ignore it! It's a decoy!
D. Click the Security tab on top
E. In the box labeled "Group or user names", CREATOR OWNER should be present. If it's not:
F. Click the "Add" button.
G. Click the "Advanced" button.
H. Click the "Find now" button.
I. In the list of users, double-click CREATOR OWNER
J. Click OK
K. Check the "Full control" box
I. Click the "Advanced" button
J. Check the box that says "Replace permission entries on all child objects etc."
K. OK and APPLY your way out.
VII. Execute the Fixdell.cmd file to replace the original Registry hive file with a Dell-compatible one
A. Navigate to the i386 subfolder of the location where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files
B. Double-click the file "fixdell.cmd"
C. Inspect the output in the popup window to make sure there are no error messages.
D. If no errors, just hit Enter to close the Window.
VIII. If there's not already a subfolder under PEBuilder313 named "BartPE", create one.
IX. Put a blank CD or DVD in the drive. (You know we must be getting close!)
X. Launch Kaspersky
XI. Click Scan, then "Create a Rescue Disk"
(The following three steps assume your hard disk drive letter is C:)
XII. Set the "Installed PE Builder folder" to C:\pebuilder313\ (Don't type it in -- navigate to it with the "Browse" button.)
XIII. Set the "Output folder" to C:\pebuilder313\BartPE (Use "Browse")
XIV. Set the "Path to Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation CD" to the folder on the *hard disk* to which you copied the Dell Windows Installation files from the CD. (Again, use "Browse".) *Don't* use the CD drive.
XV. Click "Next" and follow the rest of the prompts. You should now be able to create a bootable Rescue Disk with Kaspersky available on it to scan your hard disk from the "outside".
If you're reading this, you already know there are problems trying to make a Rescue Disk from a Dell-supplied OEM Windows XP installation disk. There are several reasons the process fails with Dell disks: 1) One or more of the Registry files on the Dell installation disk isn't compatible with this operation; 2) There are files in the installed PEBuilder folder on the hard drive that need to be deleted and/or replaced -- but they're write-protected by default, so any attempt to delete them or copy over them gives an error message; 3) Some of the driver files that the Rescue Disk normally looks for on startup are missing.
Bits and pieces of help are strewn throughout various forums on the Web -- an add-on file here, a suggestion there -- but typically the response is the same: "I tried that but it still doesn't work." Nowhere is the entire solution presented in one place in step-by-step fashion. Yes, there is a solution. Despite the posts that say it's impossible, it actually *can* be done!
The workaround resolves the above issues by: 1) Using as a source, Windows installation files that have been copied to the hard disk, where they can be modified, rather than using the installation CD itself, which can't be written to; 2) Un-protecting the files in the PEBuilder folder that need to be deleted or overwritten; and 3) Preventing the Rescue Disk from looking for the missing driver files (that you don't need anyway).
So here goes. I'm sure there will be special situations that the following steps don't cover, but hopefully most Dell users will find this helpful:
I. Copy the Dell Windows Installation CD to the hard drive
Some files on the disk need to be modified. Since the disk isn't writable, you need to copy the entire contents of the disk to the hard drive, where the files *can* be overwritten. This location, rather than the CD, will be used as the "Source" of the installation files.
To do this, open My Computer, right-click on the CD drive icon, then click "Copy", then right-click on the root C:\ directory and click "Paste".
II. Download the latest version of PEBuilder. (As of this writing, it's v. 3.1.3. The link provided in the Kaspersky 7.0 popup actually takes you to an older version -- 3.1.1.0a. Version 3.1.3. can be found at:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#download
(You'll probably want to choose the self-installing version, which requires fewer steps than the ZIP version.)
III. Double-click on the pebuilder313.exe file you just downloaded, and install the program to the root C:\ directory as prompted. (Bart Lagerweij, the developer of PEBuilder, recommends it not be installed to "Program Files", "My Documents", or any other sub-folder of C:\ .
IV. Obtain three necessary "helper" files (described below) and save them all to a temporary storage directory of your choice. Later, you'll copy them to the locations where they actually belong. I wish I could say I wrote even one of those files, but they're all the product of others' time and talent.
A. First file: Fixdell.cab
1. Find it at:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/
It has a link about halfway down the page. If you can't find it, use Edit|Find and search the page for "fix dell" (don't forget the space).
2. Save the file to your designated storage directory. If using IE, click the link, then click Save (not Open). If using Firefox, right-click the link and click "Save link as...". (Don't directly click the link, or the file will simply open with nonsense characters.)
B. Second file: Fixdell.cmd
I couldn't find this file on the Web as a download, but here's the code. Copy-and-paste the following into a *PLAIN-TEXT* editor like Notepad (*not* a word-processor like MS-Word or WordPerfect). Save the file under the name "fixdell.cmd". To do that, in the "Save As" dialog box, put the name (including extension) in *quotes* to prevent the *.TXT" file extension from being automatically appended to the file name. (You don't want it to be called fixdell.cmd.txt) Save the file to your designated storage directory.
The code is:
================= (Don't copy this line)
REM Version 1.3
reg query HKU | find /i "pebuilder" > fixdell.txt
for /f %%a in (fixdell.txt) do reg unload %%a
reg load HKLM\DELL setupreg.hiv
subinacl /subkeyreg hkey_local_machine\dell\controlset001\services\iastor\ /objectcopysecurity=hkey_local_machine\dell\controlset001\services
reg unload HKLM\DELL
del fixdell.txt
del /ah setupreg.hiv.log
echo Check output to see if there are any errors.
pause
================= (Don't copy this line)
C. Third file: subinacl.exe (Downloaded as subinacl.msi)
Find it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
Download subinacl.msi to your designated storage directory. You'll expand it later.
V. Now put the three helper files where they belong
A. Fixdell.cab
This file creates a plugin for PEBuilder that tells the Rescue Disk not to look for certain driver files. If you omit this step, you might still make your way to burning a CD, but when you try to boot from it, you'll get an error message saying a particular file couldn't be found. (IASTOR.SYS, CERCSR6.SYS, and AFAMGT.SYS are a few examples), after which the boot process will simply terminate.
To install the plugin:
1. Launch pebuilder.exe
2. In the "Source" box, use the "..." button at the right to navigate to the folder where you copied the Dell Windows Installation disk. (You're actually not going to perform the Build operation at this point, but you can't do the next step unless you've designated a valid Source location.)
3. Click the "Plugins" button (which is now available).
4. Click the "Add" button
5. Navigate to the folder where you stored Fixdell.cab
6. Double-click the file, and click "Open"
7. Once the plugin is installed, use the following method to verify that it's current. (Some older versions of fixdell.cab exist on the Web):
a. Navigate to the PEBuilder313\Plugin\fixdellxp folder. (If the folder doesn't exist, you didn't install the plugin correctly.)
b. Right-click on the file fixdellxp.inf, then click "Open" (*not* "Install"). It should look like this:
[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"
[PEBuilder]
Name="Fix Dell Windows XP OEM boot problems"
Enable=1
[SourceDisksFiles]
iastor.sys=4,,4
a320raid.sys=4,,4
aarich.sys=4,,4
aac.sys=4,,4
cercsr6.sys=4,,4
afamgt.sys=4,,4
nvatabus.sys=4,,4
nvraid.sys=4,,4
If some of the "xxxx.sys=4,,4" lines are missing, you need to add them. (The safest way, to avoid typo's, is to copy-and-paste from the code above, or to copy-and-paste an already existing line and just change the name of the xxxxx.sys driver file.) When done, Save and close.
B. Fixdell.cmd
Copy this file, which you saved to your designated storage area, to the i386 subfolder of the location on the hard disk where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files.
C. Subinacl.exe
The subinacl.msi file installs a file called subinacl.exe to a location that you designate. If you're interested in what subinacl.exe does, it's function is described on the Microsoft page you downloaded it from.
1. Double-click the file subinacl.msi, which you downloaded to your designated storage folder.
2. *DO NOT* accept the default installation location for subinacl.exe. Instead, navigate to the i386 subfolder of the hard disk location where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files, and install it there.
VI. Un-protect the files in PEBuilder313 that need to be overwritten
The build process requires that certain files in PEBuilder be deleted and/or replaced by modified versions. Error messages at this point may include:
Error: loadKey() failed:
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\petmphive" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\petmphive.log" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\setuphiv" failed
Error: DeleteFile() "C:\pathname\setuphiv.log" failed
Another common error-message is that a file "can't be accessed because it is being used by another process." Yet when you examine all running processes, none of them has anything to do with those files. I scoured the Web but couldn't find a definitive explanation of why this was happening. This is the part I had to discover myself.
Actually, these files are *not* being used by any other process. They're just write-protected. This becomes a matter of setting Permissions. For those not familiar with Permissions in Windows XP, they're what determine users' rights to a particular file or folder -- anything from "read-only" to "full control."
To make the files accessible to being deleted or over-written:
A. Right-click the PEBuilder folder
B. Click "Properties"
C. Do you see where "Read-only" has a green check-mark? Ignore it! It's a decoy!
D. Click the Security tab on top
E. In the box labeled "Group or user names", CREATOR OWNER should be present. If it's not:
F. Click the "Add" button.
G. Click the "Advanced" button.
H. Click the "Find now" button.
I. In the list of users, double-click CREATOR OWNER
J. Click OK
K. Check the "Full control" box
I. Click the "Advanced" button
J. Check the box that says "Replace permission entries on all child objects etc."
K. OK and APPLY your way out.
VII. Execute the Fixdell.cmd file to replace the original Registry hive file with a Dell-compatible one
A. Navigate to the i386 subfolder of the location where you copied the Dell Windows Installation Disk files
B. Double-click the file "fixdell.cmd"
C. Inspect the output in the popup window to make sure there are no error messages.
D. If no errors, just hit Enter to close the Window.
VIII. If there's not already a subfolder under PEBuilder313 named "BartPE", create one.
IX. Put a blank CD or DVD in the drive. (You know we must be getting close!)
X. Launch Kaspersky
XI. Click Scan, then "Create a Rescue Disk"
(The following three steps assume your hard disk drive letter is C:)
XII. Set the "Installed PE Builder folder" to C:\pebuilder313\ (Don't type it in -- navigate to it with the "Browse" button.)
XIII. Set the "Output folder" to C:\pebuilder313\BartPE (Use "Browse")
XIV. Set the "Path to Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation CD" to the folder on the *hard disk* to which you copied the Dell Windows Installation files from the CD. (Again, use "Browse".) *Don't* use the CD drive.
XV. Click "Next" and follow the rest of the prompts. You should now be able to create a bootable Rescue Disk with Kaspersky available on it to scan your hard disk from the "outside".
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