My first table in post 944 is incorrect. WinRe and MSR were swapped around. The correct diagram is:



However, it is a moot point as the following suggestion led to a simple solution:


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Thanks for your persistence and trying to help.

Ideal Scenario:
Ideally, the two disks would be joined as a RAID 0 set before Windows is installed. Whilst the RAID 0 set must first be defined in...

The reason for placing the Windows Primary partition last on disk 1 (500GB) during Windows setup is so that when disk 2 (500GB) is then joined in the RAID 0 set, the last partition on disk 1 can be...

Oh wow, thanks - missing MSR partition found, although it doesn't list as a volume in DISKPART. I didn't realise that Disk Management didn't show all the partitions. :eek:

I had Disk Management...

Unattended setup of Windows 11 22H2 only created three of the four partitions specified on a 500GB disk. The third partition, an MSR partition, was not created.

Can anyone explain why please? And...

Thanks for your help. I think I wasted a day of my life trying to solve this simple error, which WIM inserted. The tool is primitive to say the least. Much appreciated!

A Windows 11 unattended setup from a USB drive is displaying the error message "Windows cannot parse the answer file's <diskconfiguration> setting". This happens when test installing to a Hyper-V VM...

I had a similar issues with JPG files.

Adding this registry key from an Administrative Command prompt stopped Outlook 2016 from prompting repeatedly for an app to open JPG files when Photo Viewer...

Settings->Privacy->General->enable "Let Windows track app launches"

I routinely backup my entire profile (incl Favorites folder) just in case OneDrive sync goes pear-shaped. But manually importing Favorites from a "primary" Win10 machine to my others is not a good...

Is it possible to force a Win10 machine to push all it's settings to OneDrive so that all other computers would then pull these down and apply them?

I wondered if changing the registry settings in...

Is it possible to force a Win10 machine to push all it's settings to OneDrive so that all other computers would then pull these down and apply them?

I wondered if changing the registry settings in...