Hello My Friend JFX. its been a while since we shared information. i still miss those days. When i was around more and more and bug you, wimb. Shao. Jaclaz etc regarding different stuff. I just stop here to congratulate you on your never ending work and continue supporting this very valuable tool. I am away from the scene since 3/4 years due to my 2 jobs hence lack of time, and recently i got married as well. Anyhow few days ago a friend asked for my help / regarding his new hp laptop having win8.1 . Windows startup had issues / and as expected he had all the data on single partition along with windows. So he requested to please rescue data and install windows 8.1. I knew about uefi very less. So i had no idea that it does not like NTFS at all. I had 32 gb flash drive in NTFS formatted with rmprepusb and using easy2boot files from same developer for installing win7 and 8. Anyhow i thought that first i ll boot into my custom win7 pe. Copy data to my 1 tb usb drive and will install win8 natively from usb. I went into bios settings and disabled secure boot / but when i try to boot from usb / it went straight to grub4dos command line. So i thought i ll fire up winpe from command line. This time it gave me " disk read error " It was beyond my understanding that why the fuck would it do that even though secure boot was disabled. Anyways when i re-format my usb as fat32 / this time it recognised grub4dos menu successfully ( still booted as legacy). anyways long story short i was able to salvage data and install windows 8 from this tool. Problem was only with EFI boot flag ( it was shown red by Winntsetup.) remaining 2 were shown as green. So my question is / is that possible for you to add this efi/bcdboot repair option in your tool. which your tool only does when we select install.esd file.? you use bootsect.exe for this purpose i guess. All we need is one efi partition of 100 mb formatted as fat32 , select it as BOOT device from your tool / and select C:/windows from your tool as INSTALL device. This way your tool will only check and repair/copy files required in Efi partition /mark it as Active. Thank you once again for this awesome tool. Kind Regards Maanu from Pakistan
