Forum: EasyBoot
Topic: ERD Commander 2005 ISO by EasyBoot
started by: madar
Posted by madar on Jun. 14 2009,09:29
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  ERD Commander 2005 ISO by EasyBoot
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Hi

if you try to run ERD Commander 2005 ISO by EasyBoot without any changes, you will get
errors below:
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File ERDC.ISO Could not be loaded.
The error code is 16

Setup cannot continue.press any key to exit.
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you should first decreas size of erd commander iso,then do as i will explain.

ERDC2005.ISO that i have was "482 MB",i needed to decrease this size to be able to
run that by EasyBoot,so let's go through steps i did as below:

1.Open ERDC2005.ISO by UltaISO and delete directories below from programs directory
of iso (Ofcourse you may want to delete other directories instead of them,i just show
you the method of doing the work,but you can do it in your favorite method,just note
that you should not delete some directories,if you do ,it will work,but you will have
some errors when using that):

Adobe
mcafee
Microsoft Office
Nero
NJStar
Opera75
Paragon
PQMagic
QVP8

Now save your iso.

2.Rename your Modified ISO to ERDC.ISO and put that in ...\EasyBoot\disk1 directory.

3.Use "Bart's Boot image Extractor (bbie.exe)" and get boot information of
...\EasyBoot\disk1\ERDC.ISO,rename that to "erdc.bin" and put that in
...\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot directory.

4.Open ...\EasyBoot\disk1\ERDC.ISO by ultraiso and extract files below from root of that
to ...\EasyBoot\disk1 directory.

MiniPE.cmd
TrimPE.cmd
WIN51IS
WIN51IS.SP1
WINBOM.INI

5.Open notepad and type lines below on it and save that as "WINNT.SIF" in
...\EasyBoot\disk1 directory:

[SetupData]
BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"
BootPath = "\i386\System32\"
OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=ERDC.ISO"

6.Make a folder by the name of "I386" inside ...\EasyBoot\disk1 directory

7.Extract files below from win 2003 sp1 to ...\EasyBoot\disk1 directory

NTDETECT.COM
SETUPLDR.BIN

8.Run EasyBoot ,use command below for runing ERD Commander 2005 ISO

run erdc.bin

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Thats all

Posted by SlasherPay on Dec. 06 2010,07:48
Thank you for your contribution Madar. I've incorporated Winternals ERD Commander using a more efficient way and you also have no limitation on the file size... I just need to compile the instructions and attachments to be posted here.. Will do it in free time...