Re: Restore ghost from External USB HDD ?

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"Stefan Kanthak" <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"John John - MVP" wrote:

Windows PE and Windows Embedded can be booted on USB devices.

John

Thanks for the explanation on why it doesn't work for "full"
Windows
OSes. It's still strange why Microsoft doesn't implement it for
them, though.
If it has gone to the trouble to develope the technique for Windows
PE and
Embedded, it would be easy to extend it to larger OSes. Judging by
the
inquiries that have appeared in the windowsXP newsgroups, it's
obvious
that there's an interest in it. Yet, Microsoft doesn't do it.

The technique to boot PE/Embedded from USB devices is not
straightforward!
NTLDR creates a RAM disk, loads the .ISO (or .SDI) image from the
USB
device into the RAM disk, turns on an CD-ROM emulation and then
starts
PE/Embedded from the emulated CD drive.


As I understand it, you are correct about Windows PE but not XP
Embedded. XP Embedded uses a different technique, I believe they have
tweaked it to load the USB drivers earlier in the boot process.

--
Dave


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