Adding Spinrite to WinPE

[dkreifus]

We have a licensed copy of spinrite for our site, and would like to add it to our WinPE2.0 boot CD.

Anytime I access the Spinrite CD, it just has spinrite.exe on it which just runs the program to create more CDs.

What am I missing, or how can I go about adding it to our WinPE CD

[jaclaz]

Most probably, being Spinrite, at least the old version I used at work, a "DOS" "floppy based" program, the CD it makes is an "El-torito" 1,44 Mb floppy emulation boot CD.

You can extract from the CD (or .iso) the boot image and use it as a floppy image to be loaded by grub4dos, cdshell, isolinux/memdisk or whatever boot selector/manager you use for your CD (if you at the moment aren't using any, you will need one).

A suitable app for doing so is Bart's BBIE:

http://www.nu2.nu/bbie/

(FREEWARE) but there are a number of Shareware/Commercial apps dealing with .iso managing that can do it as well.

jaclaz