Hello Mike,
What is the exact error message displayed?
Is it this "Windows Setup could not reinitialize the Windows Deployment
Service engine."
There are a couple of messages that are similar and the issue would be
different depending on the exact string.
The controller would have a driver even it it's IDE.
You can use Device Manager to locate the driver name
Under IDE /ATAPI controllers
Driver tab
Driver Details button.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|>Its a western digital WD800JB PATA (IDE) drive.
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|>Since its IDE, I shouldn't need any controller drivers, right?
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|>Its an ECS K7S5A motherboard if that makes any difference.
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|>-Mike M
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|>""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" wrote:
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|>> HEllo Mike,
|>> What type of hard drive(s) and what type of controller(s) ( and what is
the
|>> controller driver file name) are in the system?
|>> Thanks,
|>> Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
|>>
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|>> |>Subject: Could not reinitialize the deployment engine
|>> |>Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 19:21:01 -0800
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|>> |>I've got the full retail version of Vista home premium, and I'm
trying a
|>> |>clean install on a new hard drive. I always get this error when I
use
|>> the
|>> |>Vista setup to format the drive. It comes up during the first step
after
|>> |>selecting the drive. The only instruction is to try again...
|>> |>
|>> |>I've removed all non-essential hardware from my machine. I've
disabled
|>> all
|>> |>non-essential features in BIOS (even USB & mouse). I have searched
|>> everywhere
|>> |>for help. The only decent hint I found was to format the drive using
NTFS
|>> |>format.
|>> |>
|>> |>I don't have XP (which is why I'm doing a clean install), so I don't
have
|>> |>the XP utilities to format the drive. I did find SWISSKNIFE, and used
|>> that to
|>> |>format the drive with NTFS. When I tried the Vista install
afterwards, it
|>> |>almost worked. It got to step 2 (expanding, I think?), went maybe
50%,
|>> then
|>> |>gave this error:
|>> |>
|>> |>Windows cannot install required files. The file does not exist. Make
sure
|>> |>all files required are available. Error code 0x80070003.
|>> |>
|>> |>If I try the install again after that, I'm back to the "depoyment
engine
|>> "
|>> |>error message.
|>> |>
|>> |>I'm totally stumped.
|>> |>
|>>
|>>
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