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jarwidmark -> How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/15/2005 8:25:22 PM)

Dualbooting between Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP might be the very useful when dealing with various deployment scenarios, including recovery scenarios. Or if you simply want an uber-recovery console :)

How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP
http://www.myitforum.com/articles/14/view.asp?id=8808



pdavey -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/16/2005 4:03:42 PM)

Nice article Johan!



gfincher -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/17/2005 1:24:26 PM)

And... a question... I haven' t heard this elsewhere, so... IF you already have a pre-SP2 Recovery Console installed on the hard drive, do you need to update it to SP2 bits? Or can you re-run " winnt32.exe /cmdcons" from a slipstreamed media to replace/install?

Glenn Fincher
Entirenet, LLC



jarwidmark -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/17/2005 2:01:43 PM)

Not really, it' s only bootsect.dat that is needed and this binary is only a partition table dump. Should be the same for any SP level.

For what I have tested more recent loaders (setupldr.bin renamed to cmldr) are compatible backwards.




pteodorescu -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (1/20/2006 7:37:27 AM)

Johan,

You may want to tell Rod thatthe link you hae does not resolve...techtarget issue.

If you update with www.myitforum.com, it works

PT



pdavey -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (1/29/2006 9:47:55 AM)

Link in the first post is fixed.



oosm -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/22/2006 12:18:36 PM)

Hi,
I have following scenario: Windows XP Prof installed on a primary partition say C: of the harddisk. Now I need to make this machine boot in winpe, the next time it restarts. I copied the boot folder, bootmgr, BootSect.exe and the winpe.wim renamed to boot.wim in Sources folder on this C: parition.
Now if I execute the C:\BootSect.exe /nt60 C:, it does not allow me to change the boot sector as the files on C: are in use and hence cannot be locked.
So, what if I want to achieve this? I know if I create an additional partition say D: and in stead of C: copy these files to this new parition, make it active and now if I execute C:\BootSect.exe /nt60 D:, it will change the bootsectors correctly and also boot to winpe on restart. However, I cannot have a new parition on this machine as my primary partition covers fulldisk and no unallocated space available (though there is free space on C: itself).
If you have any idea with which I can achieve this, it would be really helpful. Or if you have any knowledge of how I can make this happen using a ramdisk or something, please do let me know.
Looking forward to your help.
Thanks!!
~OSM



jarwidmark -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/26/2006 10:02:42 AM)

So you want to dualboot between Windows XP and Windows PE 2.0 using the new Vista bootloader?



oosm -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (9/26/2006 10:30:06 AM)

Yes. I have got it working :-) Thanks for your interest though.
Even if it gives an error for the BootSect.exe /nt60 SYS /force, it does boot to winpe on next restart. So job is accomplished.
~OSM



nguru -> RE: How to dualboot Windows PE (WinPE) and Windows XP (5/10/2007 8:41:23 PM)

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