1. How to combine true image and disk director? 

2. Kaspersky rescue disk also allows UEFI booting but uses grub2 to boot. How do I add the grub command in bootx64.xml file located in efi/boot folder? 

The grub command 

menuentry "${kav}" {
    linux /boot/grub/k-x86_64 net.ifnames=0 lang=${lang} dostartx
    initrd /boot/grub/initrd.xz
}

Having True Image, Disk Director and Kaspersky rescue disk for removing virus without loading windows is the best combination of backup and recovery tools. 

Attached is the bootx64.xml file from true image and kav_menu.cfg file from kaspersky rescue disk for reference 

bootx64.xml.txt

kav_menu.cfg.txt

• Windows Server 2003 SP1
  
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
  
• Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
  
• Windows PE 2005
  

The setupldr.bin of the above versions is the same and has a checksum check built-in so when you try to modify it you get:

"NTLDR is corrupt. The system cannot boot."

In order to crack it:

1. open it with your favorite hex editor
   
2. goto hex address: 0x2060
   
3. change "74 03" to "EB 1A"
   
4. save it
   

I also uploaded it for your convenience at:

File is now attached so people don't have to wait for a download ~ Alanoll

Now you can replace:

1. all occurrences of "i386", "I386" to "ABCD" (where ABCD is anything you want - 4 characters long)
   
2. "\amd64", "\AMD64" to "\EFGHI" and
   
3. "amd64\", "AMD64\" to "EFGHI\" (where EFGHI is anything you want - 5 characters long)
   

Do not replace all occurrences of "amd64" since some of them refer to a section of txtsetup.sif

In order to find what files need to be copied to the directories ABCD and EFGHI open command prompt, go to the directory you have txtsetup.sif and enter:

type TXTSETUP.SIF | findstr /r ",_[1-9] ,[1-9]_"

and copy the files listed there from I386 to ABCD and AMD64 to EFGHI.

For anyone curious, open the setupldr.bin with hiew, goto the above hex address and see the surrounding assembly code.

cracked_SETUPLDR_1_.BIN.zip

I have the following problem:
I bought a USB drive from Transcend and want to flip the removable bit to let Windows treat it like a HDD (for showing partitions).

Here is the ChipGenius result:
 

First, I tried flipping the RMB with BootIt. That didn't work.

Then I tried different MPTools from SMI (especially this one).

The USB drive is recognized and I can edit the settings via the default.ini file, however, when I try to start the process I get this error:
"Initial Param Fail (0f) (FlashID not found in DBF Database)".

Here is the SMI MPTool dialog for the drive:

So what can I do to flip the removable bit of my drive?

Thanks in advance, 

Cealor

Recently put simple guide to together on how to boot the Windows BOOTMGR from UBCD and specify multiple boot entries in BCD. More info here

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=135148

I am now looking to add multiple installation sources. For example I have Vista X86 DVD and Vista X64 and Win7 X86 and Win7 X64 DVD. Each of these DVDs have three crucial files:

>BOOT.WIM (this is loaded into RAM and is the "installer")

>INSTALL.WIM (this is the installation image that seems to be hardcoded)

>SETUP.EXE (this is an executable to seems to be required in the sources folder)

I can rename and move the location of BOOT.WIM with no problems (just have to update entry in BCD). But I cannot seem to rename or specify or move a INSTALL.WIM.

Ideally the sources folder structure would look like this:

-SOURCES

-vista-re-x86.wim (this is just Vista Recovery Environment)

-win7-re-x86.wim (this is just Win7 Recovery Environment)

I should note that using imageX/WAIK is not really a good choice because:

1. I am not creating the installation images/sources

2. WAIK is a large overhead everytime needed to update/change image file

3. Combing images is just a rather messy approach to the problem imho.

4. 6 months down road when win7 hits RTM it means recreate all the images again.

Any one have an idea?

-dpc

(1) that will boot in

EITHER my old Optiplex 755 machine with XP Pro SP3 32-bit (with a classic MBR BIOS boot and only USB
OR my newer Optiplex 7010 machine that now dual-boots Win 7 Pro SP1 64-bit and Win 10 Pro 64-bit (with UEFI but NOT Secure Boot, and with USB 3 as well as 2), and

(2) will have lots of useful stuff on it - not only install/repair of XP Pro SP3 32-bit and Win 7 Pro 64-bit and Win 10 Pro 64-bit, but also tools like the "Create Media" versions of AOMEI Backupper, AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro, Macrium Reflect Free, EaseUS Backup, EaseUS Partition Master, etc., and

(3) as I find more tools, I can add them to this bootable USB without wiping what's already there.

Ideally its "background" OS will be a Win PE version of Win 7 32-bit with as many useful features of Win 7 as possible, like Disk Management. That would be better for me than Linux, which I have hardly ever used.

My fantasy is that I plug it into either of my two PCs, it boots, and after the Win PE 7 is running, it gives me a menu of which useful thing I want to do. (Or maybe it gives me an initial menu as to whether I want to install/repair XP, 7 or 10 or go to the second menu with tools, and if I go to the second menu, it boots into its Win PE 7 background and offers me those tools. Just guessing.)

But I haven't a clue how to get started. The more basic websites (like HowToGeek) seem to describe how to set up the USB for ONE purpose, like installing Win 7, but not as a complete bootable toolkit that gives me lots of choices. And most of the more advanced websites are too advanced. Pendrive[something].com assumes I already know about Linux, Ubuntu and how to cook roast pig, and I just ... DON'T.

Also, I have previously used this PNY stick for something (a fresh install of Win 10), found that for some reason its only usable partition was 32GB± instead of its complete 128GB, then I used it for something else, then I "hid" that small partition and then reformatted the PNY in Disk Management, so right now it is one confused sick puppy. It is NOT recognized by my XP machine at all although it does appear in Disk Management in my Win 7 machine. This means I should completely re-clean or re-format it and/or re-partition it first, and again I have no idea what I am talking about or how to get started. If I reformat it, what format? Disk Management in Win 7 gives me way too many choices, and I have no idea which to use.

Please point me to the beginning of this education, and the next step, and the next.

Thanks.

and what the sxs folder to use in sources there are so much differences between the x86 and x64 editions

(hd0,0) 

FAT12 BPB found with 0xEB (jmp) leading the boot sector.

probed C/H/S = 80/2/18, probed total sectors = 2880

I've searched for hours on Google, however I can't find anything that references the cause of this.  I'm getting this error with a custom repair iso, and gparted (most recent amd64) is hanging, eventually kicking back to bootloader command line after ~5min or so.  PartedMagic (most recent from 2015.05.04) boots fine, as does the Comodo Rescue ISO.

The Win8.1SE build is setup to boot to BCD with an option for Win8.1SE, WinRE, and grub4dos.  Grub4dos then has several entries, 4 of which are ISOs added during the build.  All menu.lst entries are mapped to (hd32), which would be right for a CD and I was curious if this would be the cause of the issue since it's a flash drive.

I've tried partitioning the flash drive every which way, both through Win8.1SE and RMPrepUSB, but I can't seem to get gparted and the custom recovery iso, which contains both dos and linux utilities, to boot. 

For some reason the text of the help message starts about 1/3 the way in from the left edge of the screen.

Is there a way to change the margin, or column that the help message starts? I know that HELPMSGROW controls what row it starts, what about the column?

Thanks in advance.

• traditionally it was believed (by me at least) that El-Torito no-emulation images were reserved to "special" loaders, such as:
  • the known "ArnesBootRecord" or MicrosoftCorporation.img (sized 2,048 bytes and used in Windows NT based OS install disks and PE 1.x's)
  • the known etfsboot.com (sized 2,048 bytes and used in Vista install disks and PE 2.x's)
  • the known etfsboot.com (sized 4,096 bytes and used in 7 and later Windwos OS and in PE's >2.x)
  • ISOLINUX.BIN (part of the Syslinux project, typically between 10 and 14 Kb in size)
  • GRLDR (part of the grub4dos project, typically around 250 Kb, but of which only the first 4 sectors, i.e. 2,048 byes are actually the "boot image"
  • other "special crafted" bootloaders still in the few Kbytes range in size
• it is possible to have El-Torito No-emulation images that are either a whole (large) volume (hundreds of Mbytes in size)  or a volume (still large) with prepended to it a loader
• in passing by the extension to the El-Torito standard adding to it the "EF" type of boot image (which is normally represented as a very small FAT formatted volume containing just the \efi\boot\ folder and an efi executable, such as bootia32.efi, bootia64.efi or bootx64.efi) has been talked about
• it also came out that this "EF" no-emulation boot image can be a rather largish FAT formatted volume
• the El-Torito standard does not include anywhere in boot catalog a field for the SIZE of such images (though it includes a field for "Size to be initially loaded")

The discussion provided some ideas to make clearer the structure of these .iso's, and allow the user to  have valid data about the size of these images and the possibility to "extract" them "correctly", i.e. in a way that these images can be re-used to create other images and or be mounted/accessed with other commonly uised tools.

Isobuster (the nick with which the Author of the Isobuster tool has registered on MSFN) already made a series of changes to the tool and we are in the phase of experimenting the modified tool on several different .iso's to see how efficient and useful are these changes and/or to propose new, further changes (where needed), etc.

jaclaz

How to Create Windows 7 & 8 Aio ISO

CREATED WIN7 & 8 AIO DVD SUCCESSFULLY

I have a Sony Vaio Ultrabook SVT 131 with Pro Duo SD Card slot. I have installed a live Ubuntu on a 2 GB Sony SD Card and plugged it in my Ultrabook. Then I am trying boot my Ultrabook from the SD Card.

First I have accesed the BIOS setting and enabled booting from Media devices also I have choosed to boot from Media devices. Unfortunately I got "No operating system message" when I booted. I am sure that my SD is bootable. I downloaded last Ubuntu ISO then use USB tools to extract and create a live version on my SD Card.

I have also tried to change Boot option from UEFI to the normal legacy but I have got the same.

Any ideas?!

Hi all,

I have been having some issues creating a multiboot USB, namely XP and Win7 will not install. Also having trouble booting Backtrack5 in live mode.

One of the problems is that there are just so many guides out there, I don't know where to begin! so hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction.

I want to get a multiboot USB with the following features

XP Pro SP3 installation

Win7 Installation

Ubuntu live

Kaspersky Rescue

Clonezilla

System Rescue CD

Backtrack5

My companys proprietary installation CD (.iso)

Partition Magic

And Active@ file recovery

I tried using several applications to do this, xboot, sardu and YUMI with no success, XP and Win7 will not install.

I would like to end up using xboot as I can easily change the menu background image, but whatever works would be fine.

It's just that there are so many guides out there that I am having so much trouble. If somebody could please point me in the right direction and let me know what software and guide I should follow, I would be extremely grateful!

Many thanks,

And apologies for the noobish questions!!

I am new to this forum. My problem is, every quarter of the year, our company will be giving laptops to employees and i have to configure them, install the necessary software (like, SEP Client, Office 2007 / 2010, Garmin, scanner software, etc). Currently, all this software is placed in folder in my external drive and i copy this folder to the new laptop and install one by one. I need a solution so that i can install all the software in one go silently like an intel's motherboard driver cd wher you select whatever driver you need to install.

Is it possible????

If so, please help how to do it.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

I apologize if I posted this message in the wrong section.

just try to use grub4dos and mkisofs to make my nlite-compiled XP-CD multiboot-ready. Problem: The Grub4Dos of the boot-record is looking for /menu.lst (written in lowercase!) but all files on the DVD appear in uppercase. Maybe this is because of some ISO9660-standard. Anybody knows what do I have to change to allow lowercase-filenames? Right now, the DVD is ISO9660+Joliet3. I'm sure grub4dos and/or mkisofs need some specific dvd-format at early state of boot-process. Propably grub4dos' search for menu.lst is hardcoded in the boot-record and not editable.

Server 2012 R2, however, does not seem to have the sources/license subfolder that 2008 R2 used to have. Still, the windows setup complains when I try to install from an install.wim where I added 2012 R2. This means there presumably are license files, but I have no clue where.

Using search in the Windows 8 / Server 2012 unattended forum and in the multi-boot forum did not yield anything; neither did plain googling.

Could anyone please point me at instructions how to merge Server 2012 R2 including license files?

I also have MSDart and would like to ask for assistance with 2 things:

How can I combine MSDart 86 and MSDart 64? it seems do-able.

Then is it possible to add msdart into my win7 all-in-one?

I have a project disc that I'd like to shrink by a lot. I know there is a great deal of redundancy on the disc. I believe using the correct tool, these redundancies can be optimized away, replacing actual files with links/pointers/whatever. But I can find nothing via Google that will even offer a direction. Then, I remembered MSFN and reasoned someone here has to have obsessed about this subject and knows how to do this.

Thanx in advance....