Topic: create multiboot Recovery CD win7,vista,etc.
started by: BarneyFife
Posted by BarneyFife on Mar. 21 2012,13:17
I hope to make sense explaining this. What I am trying to do is create a multiboot Recovery CD that contains All Recovery CD's (Win7-32-64-bit, Vista 32-64-bit, XP) but have a question about extracting the files to c:\easyboot\disk1 folder. When i open the 1st iso (Vista 32-bit) the are 2 folders and a bootmgr file. Do I take all files there and extract them to the disk1 folder? If so the first iso extracts to disk1 folder easily. When I go to the second iso (Vista 64-bit) the iso files that need to be extracted show up as duplicates since they are named the same so it wants to replace the other files. What do I do to avoid this so I can add all iso files? I am a newbie to Easyboot so confused a little. I included screenshot. Please help. Thanks in advanced.
Posted by balder on Mar. 21 2012,15:07
@BarneyFifeAs this is your first post in this community - I say welcome @BarneyFife
Quote: "I am trying to do is create a multiboot Recovery CD that contains All Recovery CD's (Win7-32-64-bit, Vista 32-64-bit, XP)"
This is a pretty easy task to solve
Do it this way to solve Vista\Win-7 recovery ISO-files (typically based on NT6-system such as Vista\Win-7\server-2008)
Note: we are going to use ISO-files of above recovery CD's - so you need ISO-files of above
To solve Vista\Win-7 different recovery options do it this way:
1. Copy ISO-file of, let's say, 'Windows_7_32bit_Recovery_Disc.iso' to folder EZBOOT
2. rename ISO to, let's say, 'win7_32rec.iso' (use short names)
3. Use menu command in EasyBoot: run win7_32rec.iso
4. Only check 'Joliet' when creating ISO in EasyBoot
Do the same to any of Vista-recovery.iso or to any of Win-7-recovery.iso
Note: typically examples of theses different ISO-files are: DaRT70.iso, msdart_vista60.iso, Windows_7_64bit_Recovery.iso, Windows_Vista_Recovery_Disk.iso and continue...
You can have as many ISO-files you want in build
Note: above works only if you use EasyBoot_v6.1 or later version (last release of Easyboot is version 6.5.2.695)
Above works also from USB device as well
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Now to XP-repair\recovery systems
This is a little bit more tricky
WinXP or server-2003 is typically NT5-system and much different from NT6-systems (Vista\Win-7\server-2008)
This means we cannot launch NT5-system in the same way as NT6-systems
We are on the other hand interested to use ISO-file directly as this makes it easy to mix different recovery systems of WinXP (NT5-system) simply by giving ISO-files different names.
Note: typically recovery NT5-systems are: erd50.iso, BartPE, Reatogo that all have folder I386 inside ISO-file.
To integrate NT5-recovery systems do it this way:
1. Download my set of scripts (you have download below in every post I write in this forum)
2. Extract folder 'balder' to the root (C:)
3. Read carefully 'READ_ME.html' inside folder 'balder'
4. Use 'easyboot-iso.script' to integrate any of WinXP-recovery ISO-files (ERD5 or whatever)
5. Attention! Check 'Run ISO from RAM' in script as you are trying to launch ISO-file of an NT5-system
6. Only check 'Joliet' when creating ISO in EasyBoot
Continue integrating as many different ISO-files based on NT5-system as you like
When creating ISO in EasyBoot only check 'Joliet'
Above works also from USB device as well!
balder
Posted by BarneyFife on Mar. 21 2012,16:08
Thanks so much for the excellent explination for my questions. It is greatly appreciated. You said copy iso's to the easyboot folder, so does this mean the easyboot\iso folder or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot folder? I am just making sure that i get this right. You took a great deal of time to answer my questions and I really appreciate it a lot.
Posted by balder on Mar. 21 2012,16:49
@BarneyFifeQuote: "easyboot\iso folder or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot folder?"
I wrote in post nr;2 quote: "to folder EZBOOT"
You obviously only have one folder EZBOOT and that is in folder EasyBoot\disk1
So copy ISO-file built from source of NT6-system (Vista\Win-7\server-2008 which typically is MsDArt70 or similar) to folder 'EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot'
However notice the difference how you must treat rescue ISO-files based on NT5-systems (NT5-systems are typically WinXP\server2003 that have folder I386 inside ISO-file).
regards balder
Posted by BarneyFife on Mar. 21 2012,19:28
Thanks again Balder for taking the time to explain this to me. You are Da Bomb!!! 