Boot pe from HD

[Mats]

Does anyone know if it is possible to boot WINPE (not Barts) from boot.ini?
I haven't found anything on the MS site about this

I know you can boot pe buy following the instructions in wnpe.chm but I wish
to dualboot PE and XP from the same partition

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Yes,

You can use CMLDR and BOOTSECT.DAT from the Windows XP Recovery
Console to dualboot WinPE and Windows XP using boot.ini.

1. Install the Windows XP Recovery Console (winnt32 /cmdcons)

2. Add WinPE to the harddrive as you normally do (See WinPE docs for
detailed steps)

3. Add the following entry to boot.ini
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="WinPE"

regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Followup....

Note 1: don't replace the existing Windows XP ntldr as per WinPE
docs....cmldr will be used for WinPE when dualbooting

Note 2: The recovery console cmldr and WinPE 2004 setupldr.bin file
are the same. eg, you can also rename WinPE setupldr.bin to cmldr ant
it will work (as long as you have a valid bootsect.dat as well)


regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment