Syprep/Image X procedure 'not recognised command in cmd prompt'

Kaktussoft,

So sorry I didn't get back before you went to sleep.

Quite honestly, I got confuse in these posts, I got one email, I open the posts, and I find that you have posted 3 more posts.

Sometimes the forum view gives newest post on the top, other views, newest post on the bottom. The info just doesn't come in, in a simple way. You are probably used to it by now.

Anyway, here is scrn shot of

ASC software, I started using couple of years back because was top recommended by PC Mag US and UK. Renowned for having no naughty malware etc. It just asks you to upgrade to their premium version now and again, and I guess many probably do.

Anyway as per your recommendation, am holding fire on that. Here is the screen shot, will read again your post about boot cd. I changed the settings now, for the blue windows screen to choose default system as windows 7, and reduced the waiting time to 5 seconds, so I guess that's pretty good. But when it selects windows 7 it effectively reboots again, and that is where it's time consuming.

So yes, I'd like to keep windows 8 bootable should I want to somehow, but for the computer to boot straight into windows 7 in every day practice.

Thanks again for all you work - the system is going great, but I'm sure you probably that it needs some repair somewhere behind the scenes.

Richard

Apologies again, meant to say in last email, here is the scrn shot of dvc manager with hidden devices unhidden

Ahhhhhhh now the penny has dropped with the c: and d: drive.

When windows 8 is booted, it thinks that the system drive is the c drive and the other is d.

However, when windows 7 is booted, it thinks it's system drive is the c drive and the other is the d drive.

Sorry, didn't know that.

I see, thanks for that, learned something new there.

Windows firewall enabled by the way.

Last thing, which is extremely weird and I had such a difficult time with this when I loaded windows 7 on to this laptop initially (before the sysprep accident) was with icons in taskbar, those with arrows those without, pinning to the start menu and so on.

It went like this:

a) Icons wouldnt pin to task bar (none, with arrows or without)
b) Icons wouldn't pin to start menu
c) I ran some small fix in relation to .ink file, but wasn't sure what i was doing
d) found a windows fix tool in ASC, which fixed things like this
e) one time or another could pin to start menu but double click wouldn't start app
f) eventually could start apps in start menu
g) finally, after using ASC fix tool again for icons (or something like that), could pin to taskbar, and everything worked.

The whole process took a week.

Now at the moment everything works, but google chrome, when dragged to task bar from start menu folder (under all programs) will not load. Don't know why.

In short, my sysprep saga, has slightly undone, 1 of the above bits of progress again.

You might ask, how do I open chrome? Well it just so happened that I had saved a page with chrome on the desktop, and that opens, to that saved page, and then I change the url and off I go. Hardly convenient though.

There must be one last tweak somewhere that i can find so google icon in taskbar will actually respond to double click
Richard