http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_JHHm0xSg

I am currently going through the above (using virtualbox), i cannot get windows PE to connect to my netshare brings up a system error 67.

i know the share is setup and working correctly as i have connected to it from another windows 7 laptop.

I also do not understand why it is stated to image drive D, in the reference image the only drive is C, is D the virtual drive associated to virtualbox ?

any help would be appreciated !

Rather than spend time asking questions and understanding your setup and configuration, why don't you use VirtualBox's Shared Folders feature instead of actual networking (the return code of 67 is a networking issue). Shared Folders is a file sharing substitute where a folder/directory created by your host OS is associated with a share-like object known to a guest virtual machine. Here is the VirtualBox documentation for Shared Folders: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#sharedfolders . You can probably take a short-cut and follow a video found on youtube.

Referring to the steps taken in Prof. Messer's video, you:

1) configure the Shared Folder using the VirtualBox documentation
2) create the PE .iso file
3) boot the .iso file as a VirtualBox guest vm and run sysprep on the appropriate guest's virtual drive
3) run ImageX with the output going to a VirtualBox Shared Folder. Now the image is accessible to your host VM (and your laptop).

Food for thought, anyway. If you don't use the Shared Folder feature, do as I did initially: output to a properly formatted USB flash drive attached to the guest virtual machine (that is running winpe). Until you are comfortable with virtual "things", it is easier to deal with real things such as physical USBs rather than abstract concepts.

Check to make sure you do not have any extra slashes(\) in the path name as mentioned in this article at http://www.maxi-pedia.com/system+error+67+has+occured

Windows creates an additional (second volume - automatically) - to enable future use - in preparation for bit locker, virtual pc etc. In the past, when someone later decided they wanted bitlocker, they had difficulties creating, finding disk space on Disk 0 where BitLocker needed to put required second volume its very difficlt to rearrange an existing volume, create the needed ~100 mb partition (often it may be somewhat larger if your system disc is large, my install created a 300mb partition). By default - This partition may or may not be hidden.



You may not find this "hidden" second partition on HDD on lower versions of windows 7 - since they don't have the ability to run BitLocker. Only Enterprise and Ultimate editions are capable of run BitLocker Drive Encryption. Not sure of how or if this affects upgrade anywhere installations - like an upgrade from Professional or Home premium.