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[Ariom]

Hi to all Builders...

First of all I just want to THANKS to people who runs or responsible for this GREAT SITE...
Is is in here where I learn so much about computers "How To" in terms of software.
I also wants to give THANKS to some peps who responded about my problems (To many to mentions),just mention a few..
First to Nuno, of course for this GREAT Site, to Zhirin (for his "Golden" tutorial), Amalux, (his BootSDI, LiveXP in RAM Tutorial), Jaclaz, yyadrasil (Sorry I forgot the spelling), to Wimb (for this site about "Install XP from USB AFTER Booting with PE from HDD")
and before I forgot..to Lancelot.

Last week I read this post..Here by wimb.
I downloaded all the necessary files. I realy eager to apply it to my Hard drive, so I bought a 2nd hand 40gig of HD.
I format it and install a fresh new OS which is an XPRO sp2 sliptream with some drivers from "Driverpacks.net". I give full credit to this useful site!!!

After the installation of the new XPRo OS, I copied then the whole contents of XPRO CD installer to "Drive D: of my HD. And I copied the "RAM" folder..see pic1..to drive D:
Note: I only need the "BootSDI.img" file.
(This version of winbuilder "lx101408cxs" is from Amalux tutorial site before. I just updated the "Winbuilder.exe" files to version 075beta5k)
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=4111

I run the "Boot_img.exe" from wimb site ..(see from the preceeding paragraph).See pic2..just take note where I point to the desired path. Then click the "GO" button. Then I waited for a minute or two. When it finishes it task I rebooted my machine..
And voilaaaaa....I got the Three option from the boot.ini...when I booted to ramdisk, the 2nd option, it works flawlessly in just almost 8seconds in 1.5gb of memory. The size of my build image (BootSDI.img) is 123.904kb to be exact. see pic3 & Pic4.

To my curiousity, I browse to drive C: and observed what files does it adds. And I found the following seven files see pic4. So I copied it to drive D: inside a folder name "Img2HDD".

So again (this was my painfull task, but I have to this for I know this might be usefull to me, which it is indeed..),while I am on Windows mode booted in Ram of course..I formated again my Drive C:\ (Note; only drive c:) by this Progs see attached Pic below...to make sure nothing remains in drive c:.
(I like this progs only because I made it portable, I didn't include this in my build to make the image size small. Anyway it runs in "BootSDI" mode in 384mb of physical memory). see Pic6.
I don't have Acronis, very expensive.

After I formated my drive c:.. I copied the seven files including BootSDI.img. and copied also the "NTDETECT.COM & ntldr" files (extracted from my Ghost backup from other HD).
Note;..I rename the BootSDI.img to "LiveXP.ini" so nobody will touch it. And of course I changed in the boot.ini & in the menu.lst to "LiveXP.ini". see..Pic8.

Then I reboot again. It booted successfully.."Oh my gosh". it works as I expected.
I tried to hide drive c: if it still works..again it still works when I rebooted to BootSDI.img.

Hey guys.. I know It's not the BEST WAY..but IT"S THE ONLY WAY as my knowledge is concern cuase I'm not a programmer of course. I did it for curiousity. But it works anyway.

And My Humble Question..Is

Is it possible that in Booting time, it will not prompt me the Boot menu? I mean..when I boot to drive C:, it will bypass the boot menu, directly booting to BootSDI.img.
What should I put or edited in Boot.ini file?
Meaning I will not boot to normal "Windows" anymore.

I HOpe SOMebody could HELP. And Happy New Year to all Chinese peps.


ARIOM

P.S. I did not include pics..3, & 7. It's 1.2mb each..

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[was_jaclaz]

Is it possible that in Booting time, it will not prompt me the Boot menu? I mean..when I boot to drive C:, it will bypass the boot menu, directly booting to BootSDI.img.
What should I put or edited in Boot.ini file?
Meaning I will not boot to normal "Windows" anymore.

Not sure to have got right the question.

You want to NEVER boot anything else but the PE build?

Post contents of your current BOOT.INI.

jaclaz

[Ariom]

Not sure to have got right the question.

You want to NEVER boot anything else but the PE build?

Post contents of your current BOOT.INI.

jaclaz

Thanks for the quick reply..

Yes.. it is what I want. In my Boot.ini, it has 3 options. And I want that when I booted to my Drive C: it will boot directly to PE (BootSDI.img), without displaying the "Boot option" menu.. I hope I made it clear. THANKS to you.

Ariom..

[was_jaclaz]

Post contents of your current BOOT.INI.

Read this:
http://www.msfn.org/...ive-t25365.html

jaclaz

[Ariom]

jaclaz

THANKS..

HERE...see attachment plz


[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\btsec\RMLD1.bs="AriomXP = Boot from RAMDISK"
C:\grldr="Start GRUB4DOS Menu"


Ariom..

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[was_jaclaz]

THANKS..

HERE...see attachment plz

No attachments around why don't you open BOOT.INI in Notepad and copy and paste it's contents, they will be a few lines of plain text.

Found, here it is:

[boot loader]

timeout=10

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\btsec\RMLD1.bs="AriomXP = Boot from RAMDISK"

C:\grldr="Start GRUB4DOS Menu"

Try changing it to this:

[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=C:\btsec\RMLD1.bs
[operating systems]
C:\btsec\RMLD1.bs="AriomXP = Boot from RAMDISK"

What happens?

Still, this booting goes like this:
BIOS->MBR->bootsector->NTLDR->BOOT.INI->modified bootsector->PE

You could change it to:
BIOS->MBR->modified bootsector->PE

Get MakeBS.cmd here:
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=2362


jaclaz

[Ariom]

Try changing it to this:

THANKS..

I'll try it now..I'll be off line for 5minuntes.
Reboot my machine now if it will works then..
I'll just update you!!!!

[Ariom]

No attachments around why don't you open BOOT.INI in Notepad and copy and paste it's contents, they will be a few lines of plain text.

Found, here it is:

[boot loader]

timeout=10

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

C:\btsec\RMLD1.bs="AriomXP = Boot from RAMDISK"

C:\grldr="Start GRUB4DOS Menu"

Try changing it to this:


What happens?

Still, this booting goes like this:
BIOS->MBR->bootsector->NTLDR->BOOT.INI->modified bootsector->PE

You could change it to:
BIOS->MBR->modified bootsector->PE

Get MakeBS.cmd here:
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=2362


jaclaz

Yahoooooo......

It works!!!

THANKS Jaclaz.. It's really x5 GREAT.

Now I want a Hard disk only dedicated to this task.
When I repair a PC.. I'll just slave this Hardisk and boot to this as the Host OS to repair the Guest Hard disk.

Before.. I used the CD booting LiveXP (Normal), and LiveXP_RAM.
But now I like to implement this by booting BootSDI to HDD.
It is because it boots so fast..
I hope someone might find it useful.

THANK You so much Jaclaz. It really helps me a lot.

Ariom.

[was_jaclaz]

THANK You so much Jaclaz. It really helps me a lot.

No prob.

jaclaz

[Shirin Zaban]

Hi Dear Ariom and welcome

Thank you for talking about me

I am happy that you have got your answers (By nice helps of jaclaz as always)

hope you will get more exprements and will send them here

thanks again
have nice times

shirin zaban

[Ariom]

Hi Dear Ariom and welcome

Thank you for talking about me

I am happy that you have got your answers (By nice helps of jaclaz as always)

hope you will get more exprements and will send them here

thanks again
have nice times

shirin zaban

Hi Shirin..

Yes..I'm realy happy that I got with the help from Jaclaz. (The "one of the BEST Builder" around here..He...he..).
That Idea of mine will just came up to my mind, just after I read your "Wonderful Tutorial" and thru "Wimb's Tutorial" of course.
By the Way...Thanks for "passing by or dropping by" here in my post...
Have A Nice Daysssss...........

Ariom

[Tokener]

ThankU Ariom

Your post makes me rise my thumbs way up.
Thanks for sharing your results, it is success all the way.
Asay ThanX to the makers of the tools that we love, RESPECT !

T.

[Ariom]

ThankU Ariom

Your post makes me rise my thumbs way up.
Thanks for sharing your results, it is success all the way.
Asay ThanX to the makers of the tools that we love, RESPECT !

T.

@Tokener

THANKS 4 UR appreciation indeed.
This is my only small SHARE in this "GREAT" site as far as my small knowledge is concern. I've learned much from here...
I've now using it to rescue some machine. I just connect it as "slave" with this "SDI" image to a "Dead Host" PC, and booted from it, and do a repair.

I really gave full credits to all BUILDERS in here..

Anyway thanks for dropping by..Tokener.. and enjoy that "BootSDI" as I did.

Ariom

[tgs2010]

Hi,
i am getting this error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1884706 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/boot-land.net/httpdocs/forums/sources/action_public/topics.php on line 766

when i want to read the post from wimb it is this line: Last week I read this post..Here by wimb.

checked this on three pc's, on ie6 and ie8 and ff, same error. does that page exist.

[Lancelot]

@tgs2010
Try the mirror topic ad 911
Install XP from USB AFTER Booting with PE from HDD or USB
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=21883