I've been looking around for a tool that can get WinPE to function as if it had temporary write access to disc. Identical to that of a Knoppix release. From what I've found, ramdisk is effective for making virtual drives and editing the setup information to make the PE disc a virtual directory sounds a bit iffy. Is there any way to accomplish what I'm trying to do or is this why everyone is using ramdisk?

You can't modify the contents of the system drive that PE uses. So yes... a ram disk is the easiest way to get a local write volume.

You can also Map a drive to a network share and write there.. but that gets messy to manage.

Chris

****! >.<'

I really wanted a good competition for Knoppix....Ah well. I believe that I need to make the system drive "rewritable" because Profiles keep crashing PE.

Use XP Embedded. It is a much more logical choice if you are trying to build something comparable to knoppix.

I might look into it since I hear so many good things about it. I doubt it's anywhere different to what I'm doing though. =/

Does it have "write" access to the CD when booting?

I'm starting to think I should just move the profiles directory to a virtual drive. =/

XP Embedded includes a driver, called the Embedded Write Filter - or EWF for short. To anything running on the system, it makes it look as if the drive is writable. Given that a CD/DVD or ROM (which Embedded can also run from) are read-only, the EWF allows you to add components that need RW capability and trick them into thinking they are on a hard disk.

XP Embedded includes a driver, called the Embedded Write Filter - or EWF for short. To anything running on the system, it makes it look as if the drive is writable. Given that a CD/DVD or ROM (which Embedded can also run from) are read-only, the EWF allows you to add components that need RW capability and trick them into thinking they are on a hard disk.

Sweet...EWF for the win....

I'm sure it exists somewhere in Longhorn as well....

Any idea how I can add this function?