fsredir v1.0.1

• When computer boot/or new media storage device attached, fsredir will find fsredir.marker on each device root directory and load it when found. Lets say your fsredir.marker is located on E:\fsredir.marker
• The content of fsredir.marker represent the location of x:\ in your device. It can be blank or changed. Lets say your fsredir.marker contain this: \MyWinPe
• When for example, application tried to load x:\windows\system32\msvbvm60.dll but file is not there, fsredir will try to search msvbvm60.dll on your drive which contain fsredir.marker in E:\MyWinPe\Windows\System32\msvbvm60.dll. If your fsredir.marker has no content. It will search in E:\Windows\System32\msvbvm60.dll
• If fsredir found the file, it will redirect the request to open that file into new location.
• Your application load

• Inserting the driver into wim image:
  
  • Download the driver and Extract all the content into new folder
  • Mount your wim image by using imagex or dism (eg imagex /mountrw PATH_TO_WIM 1 PATH_TO_MOUNT_DIR) Lets say PATH_TO_MOUNT_DIR is C:\WinPE\Mount\ (Tutorial can be found here or search using googles)
  • Copy \file\fsredir.inf to C:\WinPE\Mount\Windows\inf
  • Copy \file\fsredir.sys to C:\WinPE\Mount\Windows\system32\drivers
  • Copy \file\fsredir.marker to your pendrive or other external drive (outside, not in folder or subfolder)
• Installing the driver
  
  • Open regedit.exe as administrator
  • Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and goto menu File\Load Hive
  • Browse and open C:\WinPE\Mount\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM
  • Name it as WINPE
  • Double-click fsredir.reg
  • Click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\WINPE and go to menu File\Unload Hive
  • Close Registry editor.
• Modifying fsredir.marker and add files
  
  • By default, fsredir.marker contain \fsredir, you can change this to other path that will be merged with x:\, make sure to include slash \ in front of the path
  • Example to put files into system32 folder
    
  • If your fsredir.marker contain a path (e.g. \fsredir)
  • Create a new folder in pendrive and name it fsredir. Open the folder and make a new folder windows and open your windows folder and create a new folder again and name it system32 (?:\fsredir\windows\system32).
  • Now you can start copying files into \fsredir\windows\system32\ folder
• If you want to put your files in other path, you can simply change the path in fsredir.marker

• Installing this driver in windows is easy.
• Copy fsredir.marker to appropriate location
• right-click fsredir.inf and choose Install.

If I may unsure.gif, can we have instead of "fsredir.marker" something 8.3 compatible (like "fsredir.tag"

Besides that the testing has been made under 7 and PE 3.x only, does it have any peculiar dependency preventing it working theoretically on 2K, XP, etc.?

Edited by Syahmi, 09 February 2011 - 11:13 AM.

ps: Is there a way to update my post above? I didn't see any edit button. Thanks

Is it possible to have multiple directories from the same drive redirected?

Note: redirected folder can be defined inside marker file.

Yes, but can i have more than 1 entry inside the marker file?

Another question is, can i use fsredir to merge different filesystems like CD and NTFS?

Possibly yes, I already tested with combination of this filesystem: ntfs, fat32, fat16 and ramdisk.

If the answer is yes, wim image will be 50mb shrinked from 190mb.

Those are all HDD file systems and use the same encoding for unicode letters.
CDFS however uses a different encoding for unicode letters, hence there are likely problems, when merging CDFS with a HDD-FS. At least FBWF has them.

Guess why I suggested "plain" 8.3 originally

Edited by Syahmi, 11 February 2011 - 03:08 PM.

Guess why I suggested "plain" 8.3 originally?

The question is could I redirect files/folders from driver folders and system folders with your lovely tool, please?

8.3 has no advantage here. It's not a question of name length but of the charcters in the name.