WinPE and PlusPack
I have worked through Ashley's sticky on creating a WinPE boot disk with the PlusPack plugin and now have a bootable PE disk and (yet another) way of booting to TI, but all I seem to have achieved is the equivalent of what the Rescue Media CD already has, TI and nothing else. I had expected WinPE also to provide me with some useful utilities like a file manager and text editor, as VistaPE did.
Is this all this 1.6GB download of the WAIK gives you, or have I gone wrong somewhere in setting it up?
I'll take a look at that Gary, but have a sinking feeling I've somehow built the wrong version as I found notepad.exe but it complained about it being the wrong version of windows. It won't be a priority though, as I'm pretty disappointed with WinPE.
Take that back, Notepad started OK second time. Must have misspelled it before. That's encouraged me to look further.
The major advantage of WinPE vs. Linux bootable media is driver support - WinPE will see drives that sometimes Linux-based bootable media won't.
If you want a "slicked-out" WinPE build, check out MustangPE Builder - it has a command shell, includes A43 also, some other feature, but it is not free.
In a standard WinPE build made via the Acronis builder, A43 is in a folder under the True Image folder. Once you minimize TI, you can get to it with the command line. Most utilities like notepad are in X:\Windows\System32. Look around under \Program Files\ to find the TI folders and you will find A43.
I have more customized WinPE builds with utilities for changing the screen resolution, disk editors, full-featured text editors, etc. on them. Don't give up.
I used to use VistaPE with Mustang scripts for ATI 11 and DD10. It was nearly all I needed, but ATI 11 had problems with my drives which 2010.7046 has now overcome, so maybe I ought to take a look at what Mustang is currently offering. Having said that, I could manage perfectly well with what I've got now, as I use Grub4DOS and can boot ISOs straight off the hard disk in no time. Between VistaPE for A43, Notepad and DD10, and the ATI2010 Rescue CD it is actually all there ...... but it would be nice to have it all in one bootable ISO ;-)
Agreed. I hope to get DD10 in a WinPE ISO with TI, but haven't yet. I use Grub4Dos similarly, and it looks like we would both like to have the same tools in one place. I didn't have DD10 when I got the Mustang builder and plug-in for TI 2010 - maybe you just need the TI 2010 plug-in.
All power to your elbow Gary :-)
btw, I can't use Mustang's PE Builder - my Win 7 is 64-bit, so I'm now relying on your efforts ;-)
Well, you're in trouble if that's the case. You could more easily do it yourself. What should be present in a "useful" WinPE ISO?
Well there's a challenge, but I just can't afford the time it all takes. As to content, well, personally I've never had need for any more than TI, DD, Notepad and A43. Maybe you will get some more suggestions - if you're still looking for more work that is!