Here comes the first GUI for our little project.

What it can be used for adding to your USB stick/disk:

- multiple Windows XP/2kX sources in the same partition (up to 10). They have to be in the first partition of the disk! Existing folders ~BT and ~LS and TXTSETUP.SIF will be renamed, and SETUPLDR.BIN and SETUPDD.SYS patched against the new names. Checksum checks are also corrected. BTS OEM folders are supported and renamed accordingly.
- BartPE/WinBulder/UBCD4Win/WinFLPC (NOT ramdisk versions) to any primary partition. Multiple BartPE for example, in the SAME partition are NOT supported. Neither is the mix of them on a single partition.
- Vista/Windows 7 setup to different primary partitions. Multiple Vista sources in the SAME partition are NOT supported. Place your second Vista setup in another partition. It can be placed on any primary partition.
- PartedMagic, a friendly Linux distro including GParted- open source partition manager.
- SyLinux bootsector, and optionally a directory, containing (Linux) distro booting off SysLinux. For example you may extract UBCD411.ISO, and point it to this folder. Entire contents will be copied and entry for SysLinux will be added to the boot menu.

Some features:
- detects UBCD4Win and uses multiboot menu for it if folder IMAGES is found. Only default UBCD4Win multiboot options are added. Edit UBCD4Win.lst to add custom ones.
- UBCD4Win boot menu is adjusted to boot from the selected partition. It can be placed on any primary partition.
- if Windows setup folders (~BT and ~LS) and txtsetup.sif coexist in the same partition as BartPE/WinBuilder/UNCD4Win/WinFLPC, SETUPLDR.BIN of the latter is patched not to use txtsetup.sif in root. Checksum checks are also corrected.
- grub4dos is the main bootloader/manager. Without it's advanced features, multiple partitions will not be easily achieved.
Bootsector loading GRLDR is installed in the active partition of the selected disk. Hence the requirement for active partition and MBR.
- detailed log file is created in the folder, where program is executed from. Use it for troubleshooting. Upon next execution if log file is found, it's compressed in MS cab format, removed to BACKUPS folder and renamed with current DATE/TIME stamp.
- upon installing grub4dos bootsector, backup of MBR and bootsector with DATE/TIME stamp are placed in BACKUPS folder. Use it in case something goes wrong.
- if in Windows source folder winnt.sif is found it will be used as answer file. Section UNATTENDED will be temporarily removed, only for the Text part of setup, and before start of GUI mode it will be merged back. PRESETUP.CMD is used for this purpose.
- $OEM$ folders are copied by presetup.cmd
- option to start the prepared USB disk in QEMU for testing purposes. Use carefully at own risk, do not attempt write operations!
- tooltips on almost every element in the GUI
- for multi partition USB stick use the cmd files in "files\tools\MULTIpartitionUSBstick". Works for 32bits Windows only! This is not thoroughly tested option, use at your risk.

Please read the included ReadMe.txt and \Docs\HOW-TOs.txt, it should help you get started. When in doubt hold the mouse over the element, a tooltip should help you with the choice.

If reporting problems, please attach your compressed log file (WinSetupFromUSB.log), windows version and exact steps to reproduce the problem. Thanks

For previous list of changes please look at \Docs\Changelog.txt

Latest - vers. 0.2.3 - 06.July.2009
Download: 0.2.3 mirror

- RMPrepUSB replaced HP USB format tool and PEtoUSB, thanks to Steve6375 from boot-land.net forums making RMPrepUSB package and letting me include and redistribute it.
- Grub4dos bootsector&MBR detection and installation changed.
- added possibility to boot other ISOs, which can boot using grub4dos CD emulation. Here you can find number of examples:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041

vers. 0.2.2 - 15.June.2009
Download: 0.2.2 mirror

- MkMigrateInf.cmd updated for some systems with strange MountedDevices values. (thanks to cdob)
- added several check if grub4dos bootsector was installed properly, if not- grub4dos MBR is written instead. The problem appears on some Vista/7 systems and NTFS formatted USB sticks.
- fixed touchdrv.exe execution syntax (thanks to Wimb)

vers. 0.2.1 - 09.Apr.2009
Download: 0.2.1 mirror

- fixed an issue with grubinst on some systems where the backup files do not appear in the program directory
- NTFS warning message displayed once only

vers. 0.2.0 - 06.Apr.2009
Download: 0.2.0 mirror

- boot from USB disk is now required TWICE only, first start of Windows can be performed from the internal disk
- DOSNET.INF parsing redone
- program install and windows source now supported in paths containing spaces
- winnt.sif unattended section is now FULLY supported, including custom directories and drivers paths
- presetup.cmd checks if boot filea are present on the target disk and if not copies them. Useful for 2000 installs
- binifix5.cmd is launched before start of GUI mode, new option intruduced '/norepair', which will not add USB repair entry in boot.ini
- added extra entries in BOOT.INI to test if getting HAL.DLL/NTOSKRNL.EXE not found errors
- Windows setup tag files are copied to USB drive root in order to support some BTS DP base versions
- GParted replaced with PartedMagic, versions above 3.0 are supported
- grub4dos updated to the 0.4.4 Final
- syslinux.exe updated to 3.73
- QEMU updated to the latest 0.9.1 snapshot, which should support Vista
- various other fixes

vers. 0.1.1 - 23.Oct.2008
Download: 0.1.1 mirror

vers. 0.1 - 16.Oct.2008
Download: 0.1 mirror

vers. 0.1 Beta - 08.Sept.2008
Download: 0.1 Beta mirror

vers. 0.1 Alpha - 11.July.2008- initial release
0.1 Alpha


This post has been edited by ilko_t: Sep 14 2009, 01:25 AM