Daemonforce Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 It's worth messing with to understand the hell you'll be dealing with soon. It will be truly worth it when it is part of Vista when it's a fully packaged product. Also I suggest vmware. I have never had any luck with Virtual PC and others tend to report bizarre problems with it. I have never had a problem with vmware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortex0007 Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Has anyone been able to make this work using Vista Build 5342? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scp Posted April 16, 2006 Author Share Posted April 16, 2006 so scp how did u get explorer working ? im using 5270 and the corresponding ximage.Long time ago, I must look at it again. But maybe this week I do it with the current build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scp Posted April 16, 2006 Author Share Posted April 16, 2006 OK, first part of using PE from 5342 is done.1. Requirements for your (maybe virtual) PC: You need at least 256MB of RAM Create one empty partition with at least 8 GB space Create a second smaller empty partition with at least 4 GB space2. Install Windows 2000 or XP on the first partition, format the second3. Run Vista Setup within Windows 2000 or XP, select first partition as target4. Don't let Setup reboot! Insert a bootdisk or CD-ROM5. Now you can save the Windows PE files and folders to another location: $WINDOWS.~BT boot $bootdrive$ $DRVLTR$ $dwnlvldrive$ boot.ini bootmgr (arcldr.exe) (arcsetup.exe) (NTDETECT.COM) (NTLDR)6. Copy folders "boot" and "efi" and files "bootmgr" and "bootmgr.efi" from Vista DVD into "$WINDOWS.~BT"7. Get the boot sector from Vista DVD8. Copy bcdedit.exe from $WINDOWS.~BT\Windows\system32 to some other folder9. In command-line run bcdedit /store E:\LH5342\$WINDOWS.~BT\boot\bcd /set {default} device BOOT bcdedit /store E:\LH5342\$WINDOWS.~BT\boot\bcd /set {default} osdevice BOOT where you must replace "E:\LH5342\$WINDOWS.~BT" with your own location of $WINDOWS.~BT10. Rename Setup.exe and Sources\Setup.exe to Setuq.exe or delete them11. Burn $WINDOWS.~BT onto CD or DVD12. The contents of the CD should now look like this:bootefiProgram FilesProgramDataSourcesUsersWindowsautorun.infbootmgrbootmgr.efireadme.htmreadme.rtfsetuq.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scp Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 (edited) Update: Works also for Beta 2 (Build 5384)Here is a little script for steps 8 to 10: prepwpe.cmd@echo offset CDROOT=E:\LH5384\$WINDOWS.~BT\If not exist %~dp0bcdedit.exe copy %CDROOT%Windows\system32\bcdedit.exe %~dp0bcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} device BOOTbcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} osdevice BOOTbcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} path \windows\system32\winload.exebcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} systemroot \windowsbcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} winpe yesbcdedit /store %CDROOT%boot\bcd /set {default} detecthal yesIf exist %CDROOT%Setup.exe ren %CDROOT%Setup.exe Setuq.exeIf exist %CDROOT%Sources\Setup.exe ren %CDROOT%Sources\Setup.exe Setuq.exeIf you want to get Recovery options from command-line, run X:\Sources\Recovery\recenv.exe Edited October 10, 2006 by scp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scp Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 (edited) Also works for Vista RC1 (5600), with some strange side effect: The buttons in the upper right corner do not contain Symbols and some Text in a window is not displayed. Also wpeinit.exe takes long time to load.Remember winload.exe and winresume.exe is stored in system32 and the correspondending .mui files are in the sub folder of your language (e.g. system32\de-DE).If you directly manipulatie the boot.wim image it works.PS: Updated script above with some bcdedit lines. Edited October 10, 2006 by scp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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