Ive gotten a standard PE.win to boot from CD and thumbdrive, but I'm having difficulty in getting many GUI apps to work like Freecommander and A43, they'll start but will not list drives and such...

I'm just running them manually via cmd line from a folder on a thumbdrive...

Anyone got a list of tested apps that will work?

BTW... when I use it to apply a ghost image, the image fails to boot.

Apply the same image from a bartPE or winpe 1.5, the image applies correctly.

I'm thinking the is a case of "The lords giveth, and the lords taketh away"

Edited July 25, 200620 yr by Radimus

for ghost recover and fail to boot, can you describe in detail what happens when booting? have you seen some messages on the screen?

it will be much better to apply ghost image to primary partitions, and if your WinPE rely on boot.ini, you need to modify it after ghost.

I image the full HD, (P1-dell utility partition, p2-winxp)

The boot failure said something to the effect of "error loading operating system". This dos text appears immediately after BIOS screen goes away.

This only appears after using winpe2.0 cd to ghost the HD.

When ghosting from a bart or pe1.5 cd the image applies perfectly.

It is on the same hardware/same PC that made the image

Edited July 28, 200620 yr by Radimus

Find GDISK.EXE and check your XP partition is active. Ghost in some cases does not activate the reimaged partitions.

Make sure that you have adequate backups before using this utility!!!

command - (Where X:\ is the root of bootable media)

X:\>gdisk.exe /? (Shows all switches for all drives)

X:\>gdisk.exe (View all Hard Drives on System and total partitons on each)

X:\>gdisk.exe 1 /? (Shows all switches for 1st drive)

X:\>gdisk.exe 1 (View 1st Hard Drive and and Partition Flags, ie. H - Hidden, A - Active)

X:\>gdisk.exe 1 /act /p:2 (Will mark Disk 1 partition 2 Active)

Be cautious and check thoroughly that you are actually changing the drive/partiton you want to. Best practice, disconnect all non essential Hard Drives prior to attempt.

I use this tool and learned very quickly to be careful. wiped the 60GB laptop drive's partion info and BLAT. no drive.

Edited August 2, 200620 yr by mickregan