Winpe In Memory From Hard Drive

[pauledavey]

Question: Has anyone here ever loaded Winpe on to a hard drive partition, booted in to the Winpe environment (loading the Winpe environment in to memory) and then tried to delete or reimage that partition?

Thought I would ask the question before trying it in case any of you have already done this and know that it works, or rather doesn't.

In theory I can't see any reason why it wouldn't.. You can load Winpe from a CD in to memory and swap CD's without crashing the WinPE environment, so why not on a hard disk?

Any thoughts on this, really appreciated!

Thanks!

[pauledavey]

*bump*

[pauledavey]

No one knows? Doh !!!!

[ChrisBaksa]

I don't do this... but I kow it if fully documented in teh help file for ver 2004 and higher.

Chris

[pauledavey]

Strange.. I cant see it in the help anywhere..

[pauledavey]

Just so you all know, this is not possible. Even with WinPE loaded in memory you cannot delete or amend the Winpe folder that it originated from.

[getwired]

Not true. You just cannot do it with any currently released version of WinPE.

[koszopal]

hmm i think i ve read on bart pe forum ab. bartpe in memory

koszopal

[pauledavey]

Not true. You just cannot do it with any currently released version of WinPE.

@Getwired - not much use to me now though! :-)

[stickybit]

You will be able to boot WinPE into a ram disk with the OPK that comes with w2k3 SP1.

I use this feature to boot WinPE from a hard drive into RAM. I am then able to partition / format the hard drive.

[koszopal]

@pauledavey

check this topic

http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9685

and this

http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10445

koszopal

[pauledavey]

Thanks Koszopal. Will look in to this.

Paul