I am trying to troubleshoot a problem with Server 2008 R2 WDS / WinPE 3 imaging, where the written image is corrupted with damaged files. At this point I do not know if this is a driver, controller, or hard drive problem.
How can I get information from WinPE for what happened when it wrote out the image? There appears to be no event viewer for WinPE, and as far as I can tell, it does not forward imaging events back to the WDS server for collection.
Apparently WinPE just blindly writes data and does not attempt to detect warnings or errors. Pass, fail, eh who cares? Attempt to write something, and if WDS imaging stumbles along but does sort of make it to the end, then assume success and reboot without any way for the WDS admin to find out what really happened.
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I see there are various tools from Nirsoft to enable viewing of WinPE loaded device drivers and provides a WinPE Device Manager. Why do I have to go to a 3rd party to get diagnostic tools that Microsoft should be providing to administrators directly?
Nirsoft's Event Viewer shows nothing, so apparently WinPE doesn't attempt to do system logging for itself at all. Is this really considered a best practice by Microsoft?