There's nothing quite like having PE installed to HDD.

After some trial and error I thought I may help others interested

First let me point to some information on the subject here.

I actually had mixed results running Bart's installer script, some files were not copied over as expected.

Using Barts tools for adding boot info. is however the way to go!

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edit:

sorry for any problems, though on to other things, here's the script I wound up using for HDD setup, pls. try updating .cmd in attached.

@echo off
Color 81
MODE CON: COLS=65 LINES=15
echo.
title MiniNT Installer for active partition
echo - WinPE to Harddisk -
echo.
pause
RD /S /Q %SystemDrive%\minint\
RD /S /Q %SystemDrive%\Programs\
if exist %SystemDrive%\boot.ini.bak ATTRIB -H -S -R %SystemDrive%\boot.ini.bak&del /q /f %SystemDrive%\boot.ini.bak
XCOPY /E /H /Y /K "i386" "%SystemDrive%\minint\"
XCOPY /E /H /Y /K "Programs" "%SystemDrive%\Programs\"
copy %systemdrive%\minint\setupldr.bin %SystemDrive%\peldr
start /wait mkbt.exe -x -c %SystemDrive% %SystemDrive%\peboot.bin
start /wait nt2peldr.exe %SystemDrive%\peboot.bin
echo.
echo Bootsector updated.
echo.
echo Setting boot.ini timeout to 15 seconds and adding MiniNT...
echo.
bootcfg.exe /Timeout 15
findstr /I /B /L /V "%SystemDrive%\peboot.bin" %SystemDrive%\boot.ini > %SystemDrive%\boot$.ini
echo %SystemDrive%\peboot.bin="MiniNT" >> %SystemDrive%\boot$.ini
ATTRIB -H -S -R %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
REN %SystemDrive%\boot.ini *.ini.BAK
REN %SystemDrive%\boot$.ini boot.ini
ATTRIB +H +S +R %SystemDrive%\boot.ini
echo.
echo Setup is finished.
echo.
pause

hope this works ok.

PEBootSetup.cab

Edited October 1, 200619 yr by thuun derboy

I have test it!

- I choose @ PC start the minint

- Error: hal.dll (corrupt)

- no boot of pe!

Edited August 14, 200620 yr by Cryptor

I've not tried installing BartPE, but installing MS WinPE/XP SP2/Recovery Console on HD worked for me.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=62321

From what you said, the method is similar but not identical.

Edited August 18, 200620 yr by Takeshi