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gcraw Feb 4 2008, 01:39 AM Post #1

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Hello

After trying many options I found a simple way to USB boot the Xp Recovery Console using PeToUSB.

First create a non-iso Bartpe, then use PeToUSB to create a working bootable stick, no Server 2003 files required.

Then copy the i386 from your xp install cd to a temp folder on the usb.

Boot into Bartpe, navigate to your temp folder and execute> winnt32.exe /cmdcons

Click OK, follow the instructions on the screen to finish Setup, and then restart your computer.

Worked great for me.

You should also be able to use the same setup to install/upgrade XP by executing> winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsourceReplace C: with the drive you want to install Windows to.

Cheers

jaclaz

Feb 4 2008, 04:29 AM Post #2

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@AllJust to keep things as together as possible, member gcraw posted an identical message on MSFN, here:http://www.msfn.org/board/USB-Boot-Recover...le-t111986.html

@gcraw

Nice report! Now the question (still unanswered as far as I know) is:

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What is the absolute minimum components you need in your BartPE to run winnt32.exe?

Original question dates back to 2006 http://www.msfn.org/board/Installing-Unatt...8.html&st=6http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=644

But still no takers...

jaclaz

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svcguy

Feb 5 2008, 11:50 PM Post #3

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Does this install the recovery console to the host pc's hard drive (just like installing it parallel to any Windows install) or does it install to the PE enviornment?

I've been poking around here and the other related boards looking for a quick, clean and simple way to boot to the recovery console from a usb flash drive for repair purposes. Most of the work you guys do (which is awesome) is a little over my head.

This way sounds great but I'm guessing you're left with the recovery console on the hard drive and it's associated boot menu. I'd like to avoid this, if possible, and have a bootable recovery console that I can use to, well, recover stuff and take it away when I'm done, like it was never there.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Andy

gcraw

Feb 6 2008, 02:10 AM Post #4

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Hi Andy

No it does not install on the hard drive but in Bartpe on the USb itself. It scans the whole system that it boots into and you can select which installation you wish to perform operations on. Once you have installed the console you can then delete the temp i386 folder - the console only requires 7MB of space on the USB. BTW I used service pack 2.

Once the console has been installed you have to reboot to access it, mine did not give me an option to boot into Bartpe or the console, it went straight into the console- which I was very grateful for given that I had spent the whole weekend trying to recover my system with a faulty CD ROM. But I am sure with some tweaking of boot.ini the choice of boot options could be restored.

Good luck Gary.

jaclaz

Feb 6 2008, 02:38 AM Post #5

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@svcguyYou could combine the method by gcraw which is fairly simple, provided you already know how to make a BartPE USB stick with the making of a new bootsector, a small tool is here:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2362

Or use the method here:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2254to make a .iso and use the added info coming out from this thread:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=20983&hl=it's not that difficult, the tricky part is what we are doing after, trying to reduce the size, changing settings, etc., that it is still experimental.

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: Mar 5 2009, 01:58 PM


svcguy

Feb 6 2008, 09:10 AM Post #6

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@gcraw

Nice exactly what I'm looking for! I'm gonna give that a shot, thanks for your ideas!

@jaclaz

I'm gonna look at those links when I get home from work tonight and see what I can do there. I already have a BartPE USB flash drive. Size

has never been a concern , but the stuff that you guys do here is really cool, keep up the good work. Once I read those links, I'll post back with any questions or comments. Thanks.

svcguy

Feb 6 2008, 10:19 PM Post #7

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@jaclaz

Do you know the minimum files required from i386 (or a way to find out) necessary to install the recovery console. I'm using a 512MB flash drive and my PE install takes up about 165MB, leaving my only about ~320MB for copying the i386 folder. As you know this is not enough space.

Member No.: 34,503 Thanks

Andy

Ed_P

Feb 6 2008, 11:50 PM Post #8

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You may temporarily have to minimize the BartPE stuff because

QUOTE (gcraw @ Feb 6 2008, 02:10 AM) Once you have installed the console you can then delete the temp i386 folder - the console only requires 7MB of space on the USB.

The WinBuilder projects have some clever options for doing just that.

See http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19988and this one too: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20921

--------------------

A useful posting: Adding drivers to BartPE; NIC, SATA, video

A helpful thread: BartPE Troubleshooting FAQs

Use the forum's search tool to find postings about problems similar to yours.For searches involving three letter acronyms such as USB add an * to the end. For example: USB*

The button is your friend and is located just below the one for Quote Reply.

Ed

svcguy Feb 7 2008, 12:54 AM

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Ok, I got a little crafty and just booted into the working BartPE and ran winnt32.exe /cmdcons from another flash drive that has an i386 folder on it already. Seems to have installed the recovery console, except now I have two problems.

1.) Recovery console never acutally starts. It's an option from the boot menu; I select it and I just get a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

2.) BartPE has disappeared as an option to boot to. I knew this would happen, but I'd like to fix that. However, I don't know enough about how BartPE loads to add it back into the boot.ini

I'm more concerned about the recovery console not loading, as this was my main goal. In the end I'd like to have both the Recovery Console and my BartPE setup as boot options.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Andy

jaclaz

Feb 7 2008, 04:25 AM Post #10

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Andy,

don't take this the wrong way , but you cannot expect us to do the work for you, all we are gonna do is taking you where the "knowledge" is, but it remains up to you opening the books and reading them.

READ these:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2362http://www.msfn.org/board/Boot-PE-Hard-Drive-t53366.htmlhttp://www.msfn.org/board/multi-boot-NTLDR-t51016.htmlhttp://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20089

From: ItalyMember No.: 6,779

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=16980&st=8http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18846

The flashing cursor error is typical of a "wrong" bootsector, the missing of the PE entry can be resolved by re-adding an appropriate entry to BOOT.INI including, possibly, an appropriate bootsector and verifying that all needed files are where they should.

Please try to learn from the linked thread how CMDCONS and PE builds are loaded through NTLDR/BOOT.INI, and if there is something

you do not understand feel free to ask here.

jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: Mar 5 2009, 01:59 PM


gcraw

Feb 7 2008, 09:58 AM Post #11

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Andy

Was your original Bartpe built with PeToUSB, I was having all sorts of problems, especially with booting until I used PeToUSB.

Note this is not "pe2usb" which comes with the Bartpe download.

Good luck

svcguy

Feb 7 2008, 06:45 PM Post #12

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@gcraw

BartPE was built with PeToUSB, not the pe2usb from the BartPE download. Booting wasn't a problem until I introduced the Recovery Console. It's odd that it won't boot correctly since winnt32.exe does all the heavy lifting there. It's possible the fact that I ran winnt32.exe from another flash drive in BartPE might have something to do with it. I'm gonna redo the recovery console to get that to boot. Thanks for the suggestion!

@jaclaz

Thanks for the lead on the bootsector issue. Never intended anyone to spoon feed me the answer, just looking for thoughts as to a possible problem/solution. Which version of your batch file is the best to use in my case. That particular thread is a little hard to follow. Since batch programming/scripting is not my thing I'm actually trying to avoid using your code. The reason being, since I don't really understand the batch, if it works (which I'm sure it will), I won't know why and therefore won't learn anything.

I'm going to install the recovery console alongside a Windows install on a hard disk and use those files to see if I can fix the recovery console on the flash drive, then re-PeToUSB it and see where that gets me.

Andy

This post has been edited by svcguy: Feb 7 2008, 06:47 PM

svcguy

Feb 7 2008, 11:53 PM Post #13

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It seems I may need more help than I think ...

I just can't seem to get anywhere with this little project...

The goal is to have the XP Recovery Console bootable from flash drive, and BartPE bootable as an added bonus.USB Flash Drive is 512MB Kingston Data Traveler 2.0Hardware does support USB booting with no problems.

Here's what I've done:

Create BartPE with PeToUSB 3.0.0.7. USB Removeable, Enable Disk Format, Enable File Copy.Use mkbt.exe to extract this bootsector, call it PEBOOT.BIN and place it in the root.Boot into BartPE with external USB DVD-RW drive attached and XPSP2 DVD in drive.Run d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons to install Recovery Console.Use nt2peldr.exe to change PEBOOT.BIN bootsector to look for peldr instead of ntldrPEBOOT.BIN now looks like this

CODE00000000:eb 3c 90 4d 53 44 4f 53 35 2e 30 00 02 10 06 00 ë<MSDOS5.0.....�00000010:02 00 02 00 00 f8 f5 00 3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 .....øõ.?.ÿ.?...00000020:c1 47 0f 00 80 00 29 29 ff ec b4 4e 4f 20 4e 41 ÁG..€.))ÿì´NO NA00000030:4d 45 20 20 20 20 46 41 54 31 36 20 20 20 33 c9 ME FAT16 3É00000040:8e d1 bc f0 7b 8e d9 b8 00 20 8e c0 fc bd 00 7c ŽÑ¼ð{ŽÙ¸. ŽÀü½.|00000050:38 4e 24 7d 24 8b c1 99 e8 3c 01 72 1c 83 eb 3a 8N$}$‹Á™è<.r.ƒë:00000060:66 a1 1c 7c 26 66 3b 07 26 8a 57 fc 75 06 80 ca f¡.|&f;.&ŠWüu.€Ê00000070:02 88 56 02 80 c3 10 73 eb 33 c9 8a 46 10 98 f7 .ˆV.€Ã.së3ÉŠF.˜÷00000080:66 16 03 46 1c 13 56 1e 03 46 0e 13 d1 8b 76 11 f..F..V..F..Ñ‹v.00000090:60 89 46 fc 89 56 fe b8 20 00 f7 e6 8b 5e 0b 03 `‰Fü‰Vþ¸ .÷æ‹^..000000a0:c3 48 f7 f3 01 46 fc 11 4e fe 61 bf 00 00 e8 e6

ÃH÷ó.Fü.Nþa¿..èæ000000b0:00 72 39 26 38 2d 74 17 60 b1 0b be a1 7d f3 a6 .r9&8-t.`±.¾¡}ó¦000000c0:61 74 32 4e 74 09 83 c7 20 3b fb 72 e6 eb dc a0 at2Nt.ƒÇ ;ûræëÜ 000000d0:fb 7d b4 7d 8b f0 ac 98 40 74 0c 48 74 13 b4 0e û}´}‹ð¬˜@t.Ht.´.000000e0:bb 07 00 cd 10 eb ef a0 fd 7d eb e6 a0 fc 7d eb »..Í.ëï ý}ëæ ü}ë000000f0:e1 cd 16 cd 19 26 8b 55 1a 52 b0 01 bb 00 00 e8 áÍ.Í.&‹U.R°.»..è00000100:3b 00 72 e8 5b 8a 56 24 be 0b 7c 8b fc c7 46 f0 ;.rè[ŠV$¾.|‹üÇFð00000110:3d 7d c7 46 f4 29 7d 8c d9 89 4e f2 89 4e f6 c6 =}ÇFô)}ŒÙ‰Nò‰NöÆ00000120:06 96 7d cb ea 03 00 00 20 0f b6 c8 66 8b 46 f8 .–}Ëê... .¶Èf‹Fø00000130:66 03 46 1c 66 8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 eb 5e 0f b6 c8 f.F.f‹ÐfÁê.ë^.¶È00000140:4a 4a 8a 46 0d 32 e4 f7 e2 03 46 fc 13 56 fe eb JJŠF.2ä÷â.Fü.Vþë00000150:4a 52 50 06 53 6a 01 6a 10 91 8b 46 18 96 92 33 JRP.Sj.j.‘‹F.–’300000160:d2 f7 f6 91 f7 f6 42 87 ca f7 76 1a 8a f2 8a e8 Ò÷ö‘÷öB‡Ê÷v.ŠòŠè00000170:c0 cc 02 0a cc b8 01 02 80 7e 02 0e 75 04 b4 42 ÀÌ..Ì¸..€~..u.´B00000180:8b f4 8a 56 24 cd 13 61 61 72 0b 40 75 01 42 03 ‹ôŠV$Í[email protected]:5e 0b 49 75 06 f8 c3 41 bb 00 00 60 66 6a 00 eb ^.Iu.øÃA»..`fj.ë000001a0:b0 50 45 4c 44 52 20 20 20 20 20 20 0d 0a 52 65 °PELDR ..Re000001b0:6d 6f 76 65 20 64 69 73 6b 73 20 6f 72 20 6f 74 move disks or ot000001c0:68 65 72 20 6d 65 64 69 61 2e ff 0d 0a 44 69 73 her media.ÿ..Dis000001d0:6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 k errorÿ..Press 000001e0:61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f 20 72 65 73 74 61 any key to resta000001f0:72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac cb d8 55 aa rt.........¬ËØUª

Copy setupldr.bin from /minint to root and rename it peldr

Rename /cmdcons to /CMDCONS.Add in the following boot.iniCODE[boot loader]timeout=10default=C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT[operating systems]C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft XP Recovery Console" /cmdconsc:\PEBOOT.BIN="BartPE"

USB drive boots fine, and I am provided with the boot menu, means ntldr is working, right?Both options from the boot menu result in flashing cursor in upper left of screen. jaclaz says this is a bad bootsector.

C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECTOR.DAT looks like this:CODE00000000:eb 3c 90 4d 53 44 4f 53 35 2e 30 00 02 10 06 00 ë<MSDOS5.0.....�00000010:02 00 02 00 00 f8 f5 00 3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 .....øõ.?.ÿ.?...00000020:c1 47 0f 00 80 00 29 29 ff ec b4 4e 4f 20 4e 41 ÁG..€.))ÿì´NO NA00000030:4d 45 20 20 20 20 46 41 54 31 36 20 20 20 33 c9 ME FAT16 3É00000040:8e d1 bc f0 7b 8e d9 b8 00 20 8e c0 fc bd 00 7c ŽÑ¼ð{ŽÙ¸. ŽÀü½.|00000050:38 4e 24 7d 24 8b c1 99 e8 3c 01 72 1c 83 eb 3a 8N$}$‹Á™è<.r.ƒë:00000060:66 a1 1c 7c 26 66 3b 07 26 8a 57 fc 75 06 80 ca f¡.|&f;.&ŠWüu.€Ê00000070:02 88 56 02 80 c3 10 73 eb 33 c9 8a 46 10 98 f7 .ˆV.€Ã.së3ÉŠF.˜÷00000080:66 16 03 46 1c 13 56 1e 03 46 0e 13 d1 8b 76 11 f..F..V..F..Ñ‹v.00000090:60 89 46 fc 89 56 fe b8 20 00 f7 e6 8b 5e 0b 03 `‰Fü‰Vþ¸ .÷æ‹^..000000a0:c3 48 f7 f3 01 46 fc 11 4e fe 61 bf 00 00 e8 e6 ÃH÷ó.Fü.Nþa¿..èæ000000b0:00 72 39 26 38 2d 74 17 60 b1 0b be a1 7d f3 a6 .r9&8-t.`±.¾¡}ó¦000000c0:61 74 32 4e 74 09 83 c7 20 3b fb 72 e6 eb dc a0 at2Nt.ƒÇ ;ûræëÜ 000000d0:fb 7d b4 7d 8b f0 ac 98 40 74 0c 48 74 13 b4 0e û}

´}‹ð¬˜@t.Ht.´.000000e0:bb 07 00 cd 10 eb ef a0 fd 7d eb e6 a0 fc 7d eb »..Í.ëï ý}ëæ ü}ë000000f0:e1 cd 16 cd 19 26 8b 55 1a 52 b0 01 bb 00 00 e8 áÍ.Í.&‹U.R°.»..è00000100:3b 00 72 e8 5b 8a 56 24 be 0b 7c 8b fc c7 46 f0 ;.rè[ŠV$¾.|‹üÇFð00000110:3d 7d c7 46 f4 29 7d 8c d9 89 4e f2 89 4e f6 c6 =}ÇFô)}ŒÙ‰Nò‰NöÆ00000120:06 96 7d cb ea 03 00 00 20 0f b6 c8 66 8b 46 f8 .–}Ëê... .¶Èf‹Fø00000130:66 03 46 1c 66 8b d0 66 c1 ea 10 eb 5e 0f b6 c8 f.F.f‹ÐfÁê.ë^.¶È00000140:4a 4a 8a 46 0d 32 e4 f7 e2 03 46 fc 13 56 fe eb JJŠF.2ä÷â.Fü.Vþë00000150:4a 52 50 06 53 6a 01 6a 10 91 8b 46 18 96 92 33 JRP.Sj.j.‘‹F.–’300000160:d2 f7 f6 91 f7 f6 42 87 ca f7 76 1a 8a f2 8a e8 Ò÷ö‘÷öB‡Ê÷v.ŠòŠè00000170:c0 cc 02 0a cc b8 01 02 80 7e 02 0e 75 04 b4 42 ÀÌ..Ì¸..€~..u.´B00000180:8b f4 8a 56 24 cd 13 61 61 72 0b 40 75 01 42 03 ‹ôŠV$Í[email protected]:5e 0b 49 75 06 f8 c3 41 bb 00 00 60 66 6a 00 eb ^.Iu.øÃA»..`fj.ë000001a0:b0 43 4d 4c 44 52 20 20 20 20 20 20 0d 0a 4e 54 °CMLDR ..NT000001b0:4c 44 52 20 69 73 20 6d 69 73 73 69 6e 67 ff 0d LDR is missingÿ.000001c0:0a 44 69 73 6b 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 50 72 .Disk errorÿ..Pr000001d0:65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 20 6b 65 79 20 74 6f 20 72 ess any key to r000001e0:65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 estart..........000001f0:00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ac bf cc 55 aa ...........¬¿ÌUª

What needs to be done with these bootsectors, this is where I'm lost...

For the sake of completeness (and to make this post even longer) here are the output of some of the dir commands.

Root:

CODEF:\>dir Volume in drive F is BOOTABLE RC Volume Serial Number is B4EC-FF29

Directory of F:\

02/07/2008 08:04 PM 167 winbom.ini08/04/2004 12:00 PM 250,032 ntldr08/04/2004 12:00 PM 47,564 ntdetect.com11/02/2004 02:04 PM 46 autorun.inf05/27/2007 11:10 AM 2,048 bootsect.bin02/07/2008 08:04 PM <DIR> minint02/07/2008 08:07 PM <DIR> Programs05/27/2007 11:07 AM 0 win51ip05/27/2007 11:07 AM 0 win51ip.sp202/08/2008 12:39 AM 512 PEBOOT.BIN02/08/2008 12:42 AM 171 BOOT.INI08/04/2004 06:00 AM 260,272 peldr 10 File(s) 560,812 bytes 2 Dir(s) 329,498,624 bytes free

EDIT: Just noticed \cmdcons isn't listed, forgot to -h it before grabbing the screen cap; it is there, tho

\minint:CODEF:\minint>dir Volume in drive F is BOOTABLE RC Volume Serial Number is B4EC-FF29

Directory of F:\minint

02/07/2008 08:04 PM <DIR> .02/07/2008 08:04 PM <DIR> ..08/04/2004 06:00 AM 48,044 biosinfo.inf08/04/2004 06:00 AM 1,032,192 explorer.exe02/07/2008 08:04 PM <DIR> Fonts02/07/2008 08:04 PM <DIR> inf08/04/2004 06:00 AM 47,564 ntdetect.com08/04/2004 06:00 AM 260,272 setupldr.bin08/04/2004 06:00 AM 232,832 spcmdcon.sys02/07/2008 08:05 PM <DIR> system3205/27/2007 11:10 AM 472,028 txtsetup.sif02/07/2008 08:07 PM <DIR> WinSxS

02/08/2008 12:07 AM 13,379 WINNT32.LOG02/08/2008 12:24 AM 94 setupact.log02/08/2008 12:07 AM 0 setuperr.log02/08/2008 12:08 AM 264 UPGRADE.TXT 10 File(s) 2,106,669 bytes 6 Dir(s) 329,498,624 bytes free

If I'm right, I just need to fix the PEBOOT.BIN and \CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT?Or, have I just got this way wrong?

Thanks,Andy

This post has been edited by svcguy: Feb 8 2008, 12:44 AM

cdob

Feb 8 2008, 02:59 AM Post #14

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QUOTE (svcguy @ Feb 8 2008, 05:53 AM) Here's what I've done:Create BartPE with PeToUSB 3.0.0.7. USB Removeable, Enable Disk Format, Enable File Copy.Use mkbt.exe to extract this bootsector, call it PEBOOT.BIN and place it in the root.Boot into BartPE with external USB DVD-RW drive attached and XPSP2 DVD in drive.Run d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons to install Recovery Console.Use nt2peldr.exe to change PEBOOT.BIN bootsector to look for peldr instead of ntldr

winnt32.exe /cmdcons may change boot environment.

Copy directory <USB:>\cmdcons to hard disk.

Run PeToUSB 3.0.0.7, format USB drive, add BartPE.

Does BartPE boot?

Copy directory \comdcons to USB drive.

Change boot.iniCODE[operating systems]C:\PEBOOT.BIN="Microsoft XP Recovery Console" /cmdconsC:\PEBOOT.BIN="BartPE"

jaclaz

Feb 8 2008, 04:17 AM Post #15

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Well, you did MOST of the needed steps correctly, I understand I fed you with an amount of data that can be difficult to grab all at once as the matter IS a bit confusing.

However, the fact that the stick is booting to NTLDR but it is not for both CMLDR and PELDR means that some (maybe very little) step has been performed incorrectly.

Let's start troubleshooting the bootsectors.

I have no way to check your bootsectors unless I can compare them against a working one (which you appear to have as "real" bootsector on the drive.

So please, trust me "blindly" just this time and do the following:1) get HDhacker here:http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/(or use your own Hex Disk Viewer/Editor) and extract from the stick the "good" bootesector (the one that succeeds in loading NTLDR2) extract also the MBR from the stick3) Compress the above two 512 bytes files in a .zip file, together with the two bootsectors you are using (and that do not work) you posted, PEBOOT.BIN and C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECTOR.DAT and post the file, I'll have a look at them.

jaclaz


wanderer

Feb 8 2008, 06:32 AM Post #16

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@svcguy

QUOTE I've been poking around here and the other related boards looking for a quick, clean and simple way to boot to the recovery console from a usb flash drive for repair purposes. Most of the work you guys do (which is awesome) is a little over my head.

Perhaps these guides will help you a bit?

For XP

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...st&p=142073

or Win 2000

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...st&p=141994

Greetz

gcraw

Feb 9 2008, 12:18 PM Post #17

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@Andy

After following various links and suggestions on this board, and having similar problems as your self - this is the method that i was able to have a Bartpe / cmdcons menu list.


1. Created Bartpe build from source on XP cd (even worked with sp1)2.Did a straight PeToUsb - format - file copy options - no modifications to booting.3 Downloaded grubinst and copied the folder to the usb root.4.Copied "grldr" from grubinst directory into root of usb.5.Saved this as menu.lst into root of usbCODEtitle find and load BartPEfind --set-root /minint/setupldr.binchainloader /minint/setupldr.bin

title find and load Recovery Console of Windows NT/2K/XPfind --set-root /cmdcons/setupldr.binchainloader /cmdcons/setupldr.bin#or use /minint/setupldr.bin#find --set-root /minint/setupldr.bin#chainloader /minint/setupldr.bin###################################################################### write string "cmdcons" to memory 0000:7C03 in 2 steps:###################################################################### step 1. Write 4 chars "cmdc" at 0000:7C03write 0x7C03 0x63646D63# step 2. Write 3 chars "ons" and an ending null at 0000:7C07write 0x7C07 0x00736E6F

6. Copied \cmdcons directory from a harddisk install onto root of usb.7. Booted into Bartpe and navigated to grubinst directory and used this command grubinst --save-mbr=MBR.sav (hd0) to modify the mbr. (this also saves the previous mbr in case you wish to restore later)8. Rebooted and had 2 working boot options.

Good luck

svcguy

Feb 9 2008, 01:22 PM Post #18

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My mom told me "Never trust strangers", so... umm... Kidding I used HDHacker and extracted the Logical Drive (Bootsector) and Physical Drive (MBR). I check Win's disk management to make sure my physical disk number was good.

Here they are

Bsectors.zip ( 2.34K ) Number of downloads: 189

Thanks for taking a look.

@gcraw

If I can't get anywhere with this current setup, GRUB is going to be my next option. Thanks

jaclaz

Feb 10 2008, 06:42 AM Post #19

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QUOTE (svcguy @ Feb 9 2008, 07:22 PM) @jaclaz

My mom told me "Never trust strangers", so... umm... Kidding

Yep, but you see, mothers are ALWAYS right:now I know you are a prematurely balding guy that loves cross-dressing while watching Disney cartoons, and ALL your bank accounts

login/passwords!

....also ... check your car, from the data I got the engine is going to kiss you goodbye soon,

Seriously, I could not find anything too obvious, exception made for the fact that the stick appears to be "badly" fdisked/formatted.

This is more common than you would think, and it can be caused by a number of factors.From what I can see, the problem is in the CHS data of the format not being "in sync" with LBA data.Please try changing on the stick ONLY the MBR with the attached one (or, just to make sure about what you are doing, don't trust me and simply hexedit byte 450 dec/1C2 hex of the MBR from "06" to "0E" hex) and report if anything changes.

jaclaz..

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svcguy

Feb 10 2008, 05:08 PM Post #20

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jaclaz,

Your bootsector destroyed my hard drive, raised my credit score, caused my bathroom sink to leak and made my wife leave me. How can

you do that to someone?!?

Seriously, of course it worked! I can now boot to both my XP RC and my BartPE install. I even took the liberty of following your instructions in this thread (post #26). Works like a charm, brilliant. By chance, do you have a link to material about the fix, I'm curious.

From what I can gather, it had to winnt32.exe that screwed up the construction of the MBR, right? Probably because MS's code is not really intended to do what we're doing with it here?

For all that are interested, the techique that worked can be summed up by referring to posts #13 and #19. Not, of course, discounting ideas posted by gcraw, wanderer and cdob! Thanks to all! I'll certainly be lurking around here from now own.

BTW, I'm more of a Cartoon Network guy when I crossdress and watch

cartoons

This post has been edited by svcguy: Feb 10 2008, 05:28 PM

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