> You might want to check out this white paper:
> http://www.seanliming.com/Docs/XPE%%20Stop%%200x0000007B%%20Error%%20V1.3.pdf
>
> I have seen XPE run on VMware without ant trouble, but the deployment method
> you have is a bit different. Here is an alternative:
>
> 1. Create a XP Pro VM
> 2. Create a second XPe Target VM and mount the hard drive as a second drive
> to the XP Pro VM
> 3. Use the XP Pro VM to copy the XPe image to the second hard drive, which
> is the XPe Target drive.
> 4. Shutdown XP Pro VM and launch XPe VM.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sean Liming
> www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
> Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
>
>
> "Steffen.K" discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EFE2F895-4CBC-41D2-93A7-253F908CD99C@microsoft.com...

>> Hallo,
>> I'm trying to build my first windows embedded image.
>>
>> I use VM Ware 5.X to test it, but on the first start the starting process
>> stops with exception 0x7B, which is a missing storage driver or something
>> like this...
>>
>> Can anybody help me? I tried it with the TAP.exe on a different VM, but no
>> effect.
>>
>> may be it is a problem with my deploying process?
>> 1. Building
>> 2. Copying from RelDir on a SDI drive
>> 3. Run Hd2Iso to build an iso file.
>> 4. Mount Iso file in the VM
>> 5. Boot using the mounted image
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> ---
>> Viele Grüße / Best regards
>> Steffen Kaufmann
>>
>> www.garz-fricke.com

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