How do I get XPe to not care what CD/DVD ROM device is installed

[Guest]

Because of the instability of the CD/DVD ROM market and having to have every
XPe image be tested and approved through a Gaming Labratory I need a method
to uses what ever CD/DVD ROM drive is available with out creating a new XPe
image.

The system will actually boot with any drive I install but takes longer and
then complaines that a new drive has been detected and wants to re-boot.

I can get rid of the re-boot message by removing newdev.dll but this does
not address the system chewing up a ton of cycles trying to find a matching
device driver.

I just want to use a generic DVD/DVD ROM device driver and for the XPe
system to happy with it and not try to find a better one.

 

[Kevin W]

Disable PnP (User Mode) component and build the image without the
dependency check. This will get rid of the detection but might effect
other functionalities depending on your built.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

DO NOT disable PnP user mode.

Just remove or rename file newdev.dll or remove component that contain it.
If you want to keep new hardware wizard then only way for you is to write small simple coinstaller that will remove reboot bit so
that new dev wizard do not complain about the reboot.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[KM]

I actually don't agree with both replies

I think original poster has indicated that removing newdev.dll fixed UI issues but not performance issue for him.

However, disabling PnP is not a good approach on XP anyway.
Caching up INF/PNF files to speed up the process of searching through INFs was removed from XPe.
You can try to get the feature back (if the footprint is not an issue for you) by clearing up the
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup],"MinimizeFootprint" key or setting it to 0.
This should speed up the new hardware recognition process.

Also, attaching as many devices as possible and capturing the final image would also make sure to improve the final image
performance when a supported CD-ROM attached.

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Konstantin,

Yes you are right. Original poster did mentioned that, but I probably did not payed enough atention :-(

Thanks,
Slobodan

I actually don't agree with both replies

I think original poster has indicated that removing newdev.dll fixed UI issues but not performance issue for him.

However, disabling PnP is not a good approach on XP anyway.
Caching up INF/PNF files to speed up the process of searching through INFs was removed from XPe.
You can try to get the feature back (if the footprint is not an issue for you) by clearing up the
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup],"MinimizeFootprint" key or setting it to 0.
This should speed up the new hardware recognition process.

Also, attaching as many devices as possible and capturing the final image would also make sure to improve the final image
performance when a supported CD-ROM attached.


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Regards,
KM

DO NOT disable PnP user mode.

Just remove or rename file newdev.dll or remove component that contain it.
If you want to keep new hardware wizard then only way for you is to write small simple coinstaller that will remove reboot bit so
that new dev wizard do not complain about the reboot.

Regards,
Slobodan