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PlusPack: need x86, amd64 explained plus walkthru

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I bought the 2011 and the plus pack to simplify motherboard replacement after a really bad attempt using WAIK that failed. Microsoft warned that I had done 3 rearms and refused to allow sysprep to run. I had done 3 rearms as I was not sure which system to put the win7 pro on. I am not an IT pro and could not figure out the required answers that WAIK needed to overide the default sysprep.

I disgress - Now for two questions

(1) use x86 or amd64

The Acronis example code for building an ISO image under WAIK gives, without further explanition, to run the following from the WAIK commend prompt:

copype x86 c:\winpe_x86

There are three directories installed with WAIK. x86, amd64 and ia64. I have only intel core 2 and amd opteron so that rules out ia64 which is itanium. Can I assume that since all my systems are 64 bit (win7 and vista) that I should be using amd64 and NOT x86

(2) walkthru
I put together the following steps. when I burned the iso image I ended up with only a 220mb size iso. I was not asked to mount my win7/64 or vista64 dvd which I had thought was necessary to build the acronis iso.

installed WAIK and ran copype amd64 c:\winpe_amd64
ran the plus pack program, supplied winpe_amd64 as the path and built the iso
burned the iso.

At this point shall I do the following if I want to replace the motherboard?
Make a full backup of C: using TI2011
swap out the motherboard
boot the ISO that was burned
select the universal install
have the universal install fetch the TI2011 image

Should not the drivers from the microsoft original win7 or vista be involved somehow?

thanks for looking

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Joseph,

Unless you want to alter the PE ISO, you shouldn't need to do anything, the Acronis Media Builder will open and mount the WinPE files.

You need to point to the x86 for both the AMD and Intel machine.

WAIK contains the default drivers that W7 uses when installing a system.

I don't know if MS have released it publicly yet, but WAIK for W7 has just been updated to include the service pack 1 components. For those with a Technet or MSDN account it appears in the available download list. MS might not have issued it yet on their main site.

Thanks Colin

I am a long time TI user and upgraded my 2010 to 2011 with the included plus pack to see if it could solve a problem I had given up on.

I had attempted to replace an intel DW965 chipset mombo with a much newer but still "old" 780i intel chipset.  Even though the 780 took an intel cpu, the chipset was nVidia - way different than the older 965 intel chipset.

social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/b0aa38dc-a7ea-4b1a-92b4-f7e251fdbb22

What easily worked with XP  (boot old drive into safe mode and phone microsoft to re-activate) failed on Win7: BSOD & resets. 

sysprep /generalize  should have worked as the old mombo still boots, but the usb and enet are defective. Unfortunately, my win7 was an upgrade and sysprep would not run.  WAIK should also have worked but since I had re-rearmed the license for almost 90 days trying to make up my mind, a complicated set of "answers" needed to be fed into the WAIK image builder to set the re-arm to 0.  If it had never been rearmed then the default WAIK would have worked.

  I ended up doing a fresh install using my "win7 family upgrade" which consumed the last of the 3-pack.  I then had a lot of stuff I had to re-install but I had all the original disks

When I  noticed the existance of the plus pack and thought I would get it and play with it and see if it would work where sysprep and WAIK failed.

There is no dedicated forum for the plus pack here at acronis and I dont see any informative posts or reviews here.  Even though I am no longer need to do the "swap" I will try it again using the acronis plus pack just to see if it would have worked.  I will post back on this forum if I run into any more problem.