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Since there are many that have to use Windows PE, the microPE may not be an option. Although the microPE looks like a great tool. If anyone has built some scripts to reduce the size of Windows PE a code cut & paste would be appreciated. I am looking at the Bart/microPE output files to see if I can do a translation to get a resultant version of "microWinPE"

Thanks campbrs, I was already down that path since my test environment is Virtual Server 2005, and I was also testing 64-bit PE by mounting an ISO to a iLO card in an HP server. The ISO in the Virtual machine was Volume 0, but through the iLO card the ISO was showing up as Volume 1. Most of the time, server builds will physical CD Rom drives, but I think the diskpart parsing will be more fail safe. Thanks again ...

No, I don't think I have access to the CD-ROM drive SBI.CAB is not in the image itself, it is on the root of the CD-ROM \I386 SBI.CAB = 480MB WINNT.SIF WINPE.ISO = 120MB I used similar logic to detect if there was another drive available to me in PE and there was not. Thanks campbrs, That is what I needed ... I thought this was the case, because I remembered seeing two drives when I first started in the PE environment. I see now that my first command in STARTNET.CMD would have re-assigned the C: drive. To save me some time ... would you be kind enough to show me how to reference the CD-ROM drive in a diskpart script?

I am trying to accomplish the following Boot PE into RAM (OSLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=WINPE.ISO) Partition Hard Disk (using A:\DiskPart.TXT) Format Hard Disk Copy Windows Source Files from CD Run WINNT32.EXE This seemed simple enough Unfortunately, I cannot reduce my WINPE.ISO under 512MB (Which I have found out is a limitation) So, I was wondering if there was a way to reference the physical CD-ROM drive when I have booted PE from the ISO Here is what would be on the CD (The SBI.CAB file is what I would want to extract to the C: drive after I had booted to PE) \I386 SBI.CAB WINNT.SIF WINPE.ISO Again ... if I have the SBI.CAB on the WINPE.ISO, it is too large to boot into RAM ... I also have no network connectivity at the time of this build. I tried this, but couldn't seem to find a reference to the Physical CD-ROM drive while in the Win PE ... so any help on the matter would be appreciated.