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[rocketero]

I have been using VistaBootPro 3.3 for a long time, then I switched to EasyBCD 1.7.2 recently to manage Windows Vista and Windows 7 BootManager and so far it has been great.

But a couple of days ago I decided to upgrade the EasyBCD 1.7.2 to the Beta version 2.0 and I was surprised to find a few things that are related to this site. First of all it has a button called: "External Devices", the right window then shows 2 tabs at the bottom, one is called ISO BOOT and the other: BIOS EXTENDER.


In the ISO BOOT tab, one selects the path to the ISO file or Image, it can be a VistaPE, or Win7PE, or LiveXP ISO, and on the top box just give it any name, and that's all, just click on 'CRATE ENTRY" button and is instantly added the the menu en the BootLoader or BootManager when you boot up.

this way there is NOT need to burn the ISO to a CD/DVD or to use a virtual environment (vbox,vmware,qemu).

After adding up a Win7PE and VistaPE ISO's to the boot manager, running 'bcdedit.exe /store c:\boot\bcd' or pointing to the partition that contains the bcd file, I got this at the end of the output:

Real-mode Boot Sector
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identifier {d29abbce-8620-11de-bd54-93b9d4298a44}
device partition=C:
path \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
description WIN7RESCUEPE

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {d29abbcf-8620-11de-bd54-93b9d4298a44}
device partition=C:
path \NST\AutoNeoGrub1.mbr
description VISTAPE_CORE_CAPI


And I can say that both boot fine so far.
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The other tab called BIOS EXTENDER is to make bootable an USB stick or make bootable a Hard Drive Partition that for some reason lost the bootable files or it was created with as non-bootable, for instance as a Data Partition, but now you want to make it bootable.

[allanf]

Real-mode Boot Sector
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identifier {d29abbce-8620-11de-bd54-93b9d4298a44}
device partition=C:
path \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
description WIN7RESCUEPE

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {d29abbcf-8620-11de-bd54-93b9d4298a44}
device partition=C:
path \NST\AutoNeoGrub1.mbr
description VISTAPE_CORE_CAPI


And I can say that both boot fine so far.
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That's interesting. Thanks.

It looks like there is a series of renamed grldr.mbr bootsector files - one for each ISO.

Regards

[andex]

Good point mate. You beat me up on this. I have used EasyBCD 2.0 Beta build 76 (latest version) to boot from ISO. I have even installed Windows 7 by booting from an ISO on the hard disk but on non system drive. Since two days back (the day I joined bootland) I am using EasyBCD to boot from ISO.

[Formula84]

Is it possible to use this app to install the Boot Manager to a usb drive and allow ISO booting from the USB drive for traveling to other computers?

[ireneuszp]

Is it possible to use this app to install the Boot Manager to a usb drive and allow ISO booting from the USB drive for traveling to other computers?

Yes
use GRUB4DOS

[Formula84]

Yes
use GRUB4DOS

I thought this was limited to 512MB iso's, has this changed?

[ireneuszp]

I thought this was limited to 512MB iso's, has this changed?

GRUB4DOS haven't got limit to 512MB iso's

title Microsoft Windows 7 Recovery Disk (erd65.iso)

find --set-root --ignore-floppies /images/erd65.iso

uuid ()

map /images/erd65.iso (0xff) || map --mem /images/erd65.iso (0xff)

map --hook

chainloader (0xff)

[itallmakessensenow]

Hey, was wondering if anyone else encountered any errors with installing windows 7. It succesfully boots int the standard windows pe and gives me the option to install, but when I click install it gives me the error "a required cd/dvd rom drive could not be located...." I have tried both the option for boot from disk and boot from memory, but neither seem to work. I have also tried changing which partition I have the iso on.... Is there a driver available that will allow me to use the iso file within windows PE? thanks in advance

[andex]

Hey, was wondering if anyone else encountered any errors with installing windows 7. It succesfully boots int the standard windows pe and gives me the option to install, but when I click install it gives me the error "a required cd/dvd rom drive could not be located...." I have tried both the option for boot from disk and boot from memory, but neither seem to work. I have also tried changing which partition I have the iso on.... Is there a driver available that will allow me to use the iso file within windows PE? thanks in advance

Sometimes, it fails to install Windows 7 from ISO but the other easy method is to create a recovery partition where you extract Windows 7 ISO and keep it in this partition. Then open EasyBCD 2.0.2 and click on "Bootloader Setup" under "Bootable External Media", select the partition you have created for Windows 7 ISO from the drop down menu, and select Install BCD. Then follow the instruction on the screen at the bottom of the EasyBCD.