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Windows PE 2.0 is out!
http://thesource.ofallevil.com/china/technet/prodtechnol/windowsvista/deploy/winpe.mspx

http://www.cnbeta.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9745

Everyone, please let us know if you download it!

[ Last edited by tigerpower on 2006-5-4 at 07:30 ]

This one is also a beta version, released together with Vista beta. When Vista is released as a final version, WinPE 2.0 will also have a final version. At that time, Microsoft's website will have free downloads of WinPE 2.0. Now WinPE 2004 and WinPE 2005 can be downloaded on Microsoft's website.

WinPE 2.0 is the core of Vista, just like DOS is the core of Win98. Hehe, Microsoft still can't forget DOS~~~

The article cited by the LZ mentions:

Windows PE and Windows Image Format
The most powerful and flexible way to distribute Windows PE is to use the "Windows Image Format" (WIM) file. WIM is a file-based image format that Windows Vista uses for quick installation on new computers. A WIM file stores copies (called images) of one or more operating systems, such as Windows Vista or Windows PE. It's easy to maintain an operating system using a WIM file because you can add and remove drivers, update content, and Windows components offline without booting the operating system. Maintaining a Windows PE image using a WIM file is very similar to maintaining a Windows Vista image.

I like this feature. Linux can usually be installed from the hard disk, and it would be great if Windows could be installed from the hard disk in the future : )

The moderator upstairs, booting WinPE from the hard drive is a function that has been available since WinPE 1.0. In WinPE, you can load the ISO image with a virtual CD - ROM to install the system from the hard drive. Now I almost always install the system this way.

Well, I'm not very familiar with WinPE. If you are proficient in this area, are you interested in introducing it to everyone, step by step teaching everyone how to do it? Here it's just started, and there are indeed few people, hoping everyone will support a lot!

Originally posted by fujianabc at 2006-5-3 01:34 PM:
The moderator above, booting winpe from the hard drive has been a function since winpe 1.0. In winpe, you can load the iso image with a virtual drive to install the system from the hard drive. Now I almost always install the system this way.

Why install the system this way?

Only in this way can you install XP/2003 from an ISO file placed on an NTFS partition.

Tell me the installation method. My WINPE can hardly open any windows. May I ask which DLLs need to be registered?

Please ask fujianabc to explain how to use PE to load a virtual CD to install the XP system. From my understanding, in PE, run DAEMON to load the ISO system installation CD on the NTFS (or FAT32) partition and run the installation. However, during the XP installation process, after restarting, it requires inserting the installation CD, especially for the system CD with SP2. But after restarting, the PE is no longer there, let alone DAEMON. How to achieve inserting again?

Don't use daemon in PE, use Microsoft's own virtual drive, no need to install.
http://www.cn-dos.net/forum/viewthread.php?tid=20633&fpage=1
After loading the ISO, don't use setup.exe to install, use winnt32.exe to install. Before copying files, select to copy all installation files to the hard disk. After restarting, no need for the CD or ISO.

Microsoft seems to have started virtualizing everything since acquiring Connetix, heh～～～～

It seems that winnt.exe is used to install the XP system under pure DOS, right?

Originally posted by electronixtar at 2006-5-14 07:44 PM:
Since Microsoft acquired Connetix, it seems everything has started to be virtual, heh heh～～～～

Microsoft's virtual drive has long been available. It was in the 2001 Whistler (the test version of XP) that this thing was already present.