Running winpe on Hard disk

[BadzMaru]

Hi Everyone,

I've managed to get Winpe (winpe 1.1) iso file to boot from a hard drive by the following method...

copy NTDETECT.COM and ntldr from a Windows 2003 SP2 machine onto the root of a freshly formatted drive

copy my winpe iso image to the root of the drive

create a winnt.sif file with the following settings on the root of the drive...

[setupData]

BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"

BootPath = "\i386\System32\"

OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=winpe.iso"

I'm able to boot to this winpe image on the drive but once winpe is loaded onto RAMDISK the startnet.cmd only has the entry for wpeinit? my original startnet.cmd has lots more commands which I've added have all disappeared, any one know why is this?

[Vortex1]

Hi BadzMaru,

You can achieve the same operation by booting Win PE with the grub4dos loader and no need to copy NTDETECT.COM to the root partition :

title Windows PE

map --mem (hd0,0)/WinPE.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

What happens when you boot your iso trough Virtual PC or another virtualization tool?