Image & BIOS read

[Guest]

I have two questions: How to provide the image on CD or someother form so the user can use it to reset their systems to original state - somewhat like the System restore disks that come with PCs? Second, if I have to tie my image to my hardware by reading some data of the BIOS how can i do that?

Any guidance in this regard will be helpful.

Thanks

 

[KM]

KS,

For the first question, you can create another (much smaller footprint) XPe
image for recovery purposes and burn El Torito Cd with it. It will be up to
you to provide the recovery UI (e.g., a set of batch files that runs
automatically, cleans up hard disk - partition, format, etc., and copy the
image once again).

For second question, I am not sure what you ask. If you want to have an
access CMOS settings, you can it read from port #70h (write to 71h). You can
easy go with a driver to do this. A bunch of samples exist. E.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0398/driver.aspx.

KM

I have two questions: How to provide the image on CD or someother form so

the user can use it to reset their systems to original state - somewhat like
the System restore disks that come with PCs? Second, if I have to tie my
image to my hardware by reading some data of the BIOS how can i do that?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi KS,

For second question, You can find-out what pieces of hardware are specific to your device and use VID, PID numbers of hardware
components that you can enumerate with setup api functions and test for hardware presence.

Regards,
Slobodan

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