WinPE on harddisk

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Dietmar

Hi all, is it possible to write a small batchprogramm, with which you can
save the registry (here only SETUPREG.HIV)of WinPE (which is in ram on
running WinPE)on shutdown and reload THIS after boot? I am writing this
because I want to KEEP my VolumeID of my harddisk on which is WinPE
installed. This VolumeID changes after each reboot, only the last 12
digits are permanent.

Thanks
Dietmar
 
Dietmar,

Again: You should direct your WinPE questions in more appropriate news
groups (if there are such) like: microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment

Possible answer to your question:
reg save HKLM\SYSTEM myhive.hiv /y

Dietmar you should really define again and tell us what is that you want to
accomplish in the end. Your goal.
I know what you wanted to do, but efforts that you put to this and question
that you ask do not lead to goal that you originally had.

Tweaking EWF to work on specific hardware and volume on WinPE is useless
endeavor. Why would you want to do such thing?
WinPE can work pretty well from read only mediums by itself without the help
of EWF.

If you want to prevent writes to WinPE partition on HDD then tweak Write
Protect flag in disk.sys driver and HDD will become read only medium like
CD.

Regards,
Slobodan

PS:
If you can't define exactly what you want to do then you will never find a
way to do it.
 
Hi Slobodan,
thanks but how can those entries be LOADED again as registry in ram on
early boottime?

reg save HKLM\SYSTEM sustem.hiv /y
reg save HKLM\SOFTWARE sottware.hiv /y
reg save HKLM\SYSTEM setubreg.hiv /y
reg save HKCU defautt.hiv /y

And how can it be done, that those entries are stored automatically on
shutdown and reloaded automatically early on boottime? Can this be done
with TXTSETUP.SIF ? And what does the switch /y at the end of line means?


Dietmar
 
Dietmar,

In OS version that I have /y switch is documented and mean that it should
overwrite the file if it already exist.
Well you will have to replace existing WinPE hives on your HDD how you will
do that is purely up to you.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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