WinPE 4.0 automated ISO deploy.

Hi Guys,
I'm currently working on a project and I'm trying to create a PE image that boots and applys an image inside of the .wim . I have the folder setup, .swm files inside of a folder along with a script that boots into a format and then apply-image of source
files I provided. In testing this, I am immediately presented with an error - unable to create ramdisk. The image I'm trying to apply is fairly large, about 11gigs. I upped the scratchspace on the wim thinking that would help, but even
configured at 512mb it still errors out. I don't even get into the PE environment. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or if there's a better way for me to approach this? I just need a bootable ISO that will prompt to apply and then apply the
image I have embedded in the boot.wim file. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Ryan

Hi,
This is caused by a driver bug check during boot. Make sure all drivers have been updated. I would suggest you to update all device drivers and check.
Also, please help to confirm following questions:
1. what's the pre-OS on the computer you would like to deploy?
2. Did you mean you get the 11GB wim split into several swm file? what's the main part of your script to deploy the image?
Please see that in this article it mentioned that Windows 8/8.1, the setup is not supported to install swm file.
Split a Windows Image (.swm) File to Span Across Multiple DVDs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825096.aspx
Please let me know more detailed information about what you have done and would like to do during this project, I will take some time to test the results.
Kate Li
TechNet Community Support

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