I am facing a problem when trying to add optional component to a WinPE image using ADK 8.1.

I'm issuing the following command inside the command prompt of "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment" running as an administrator. I also disabled my McAffee "Access Protection" which was advised in this forum.

I also installed Process Monitor and monitored the Dism app. Please find a link to capture file below.

Please Advise!

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools>Dism /Add-Package /Image:"C:\WinPE_amd64\mount" /PackagePath:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows
Kits\8.1\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment\amd64\WinPE_OCs\WinPE-HTA.cab"

Image Version: 6.3.9600.16384

Processing 1 of 1 - Adding package WinPE-HTA-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384
[===========================64.3%=====                     ]
An error occurred - WinPE-HTA-Package Error: 0x80070005

Error: 5

Access is denied.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=99644B2EEF904EEA!133&authkey=!AJVm0kokLbZFGFE&ithint=file%2clog

And the Process Monitor capture file:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=99644B2EEF904EEA!135&authkey=!ABahkTsMT_hD9ls&ithint=file%2cPML

Another input I would like to add.

I''m running Windows 7 64bit.

I've succeeded to run this command successfully on VM running Windows 7 32bit.

I'm suspecting the problem is related with a problem of emulating 32bit application (ADK) on 64bit OS.

• Edited by Dudi72 Thursday, April 30, 2015 11:53 AM

Dudi

On Googling that appears to still be a McAfee issue https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB76867

The description in the above link matches almost perfectly to your issue.  Are you sure McAfee was completely disabled?

Yes. I'm pretty sure. Here a screenshot.

• Edited by Dudi72 Tuesday, April 28, 2015 4:53 PM

Hi,

I checked your PML file and all errors ended with FILE LOCKED WITH ONLY READERS to some DLL files to your system which indicates that the file was locked and all users of the file can only read. It is common protection provided by Anti-virus real time scanning, it might prevent changes from being committed when using DISM or ImageX. If you are using any third party Anti-virus, please temporary disable it and check the issue again after restart.

And also ensure that you had taken the ownership of the mounted folder and didnt apply any special NTFS permission or Read-only to system files or C partition.

Regards,

D. Wu

Hi Guys

Sorry for the late response.

I've totally disabled my Anti-Virus software, but I'm still facing the same problem!

I suspect it got to do with the Group Security Policy my user belongs to.

Any idea how I can confirm or contradict this assumption?

Many thanks,

Dudi.

• Edited by Dudi72 Monday, May 11, 2015 3:54 PM

Hi,

You could verify Your Policy Settings by running rosp.msc from start menu

What Is Resultant Set of Policy?

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc758010(v=ws.10).aspx

It should be a permission issue, make sure you run the Windows AIK/ADK Command Prompt as Administrator in order to perform these actions. Some users reported that they had to take ownership of the file repository folder in the mounted WIM to resolve this kind issue.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cf9be1d7-522e-428f-8a0a-74bad748e05d/access-denied-error-when-trying-to-add-a-driver-to-a-x64-wim-with-dism?forum=w7itproinstall

Regards,

D. Wu

It appears to be the problem was indeed with the McAfee antivirus.

It changed the security policy. so even if I disabled it totally, it still blocked the DISM command.

The solution was to install Update 5 for McAfee antivirus.

Now all works fine.

Thanks you guys for the help!