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Thanks everyone for the responses. Its appreciated. As it turns out not having choice.exe in the WinPE boot.wim (x:system32) was causing me the trouble. Once I added it my boot process fired right up. Cluberti, I will try your code. I'm always looking to learn a new trick. I'm just curious.... was choice.exe included in WinPe 2.1 and I forgot I added it when I built the .wim or was it just omitted on WinPe 3.0? strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _ "SELECT * FROM Win32_CDROMDrive",,48) For Each objItem in colItems Wscript.Echo "CD Drive: " & objItem.Drive Next Thanks again!

Here is a quick overview: I wanted Mstart.bat to run the script below and identify the drive letter that my USB device was running from and pass that value to %DRIVE% and automatically launch my main menu (menu.bat) on the USB drive. The drive letter varies from machine to machine and I wanted a semi automated process. mstart.bat @echo off cls Goto Begin :Begin ECHO FINDING BOOTABLE DRIVE FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WinPE_Boot_Media.txt SET DRIVE=%%i: %DRIVE%\menu.bat goto END :END On your advise I cleaned up the code a little on my menu.bat. Now when I attempt boot WinPE I do not get the immediate reboot. The main menu ( menu.bat ) stays up but the screen shakes and I have the following error message " 'choice' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file". I do use choice.exe for some prompts on my main menu.bat. This thread hints at my problem but no resolution. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...af-c3fd61a0feaf Do you think choice.exe might be causing the problem?

Just tried it and the results are the same. I see may boot menu on the USB drive (which is what I want) for just a few seconds and then the reboot.

I removed all scripting from the startnet.cmd and let WinPe boot up normally. At the X: prompt I typed mstart.bat (my batch file) and it ran and rebooted. What in the batch file causes this? @echo off cls Goto Begin :Begin ECHO FINDING BOOTABLE DRIVE FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WinPE_Boot_Media.txt SET DRIVE=%%i: %DRIVE%\menu.bat goto END :END

Yes the code posted above is the code I use. I have also rebuildt my WinPe 3.0 and gotten the same results. It comes up, the code runs very quickly, and it reboots. I also include a modified Wimscript.ini and of course ImageX.exe. There nothing special about my boot.wim. Wimscript.ini [ExclusionList] ntfs.log hiberfil.sys pagefile.sys "System Volume Information" RECYCLER Windows\CSC [CompressionExclusionList] *.mp3 *.zip *.cab \WINDOWS\inf\*.pnf

I believe it does. WinPe 3.0 works perfectly until I add the call batch file or script. It has to be my mistake. Any ideas?

Hello Since I upgraded to WinPe 3.0 I have not been able to successfully use startnet.cmd to call a batch file on boot up to identify my drive letter. The small DOS like box comes up as usual and you see it runs my batch file and then it immediately reboots WinPe. This process worked fine under WinPE 2.0 and 2.1. Below are variations I have tried in my Startnet.cmd file startnet.cmd (1) wpeinit call mstart.bat startnet.cmd (2) wpeinit mstart.bat startnet.cmd (3) wpeinit @echo off cls Goto Begin :Begin ECHO FINDING BOOTABLE DRIVE FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\WinPE_Boot_Media.txt SET DRIVE=%%i: %DRIVE%\menu.bat goto END :END Does anyone know why or what is causing WinPe to reboot after I call a batch file or running a script from Startnet.cmd. I am completely stumped ?!?!?!?!?!?! Thank you