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#1 pauledavey

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Posted 09 March 2005 - 03:21 PM

Question: Has anyone here ever loaded Winpe on to a hard drive partition, booted in to the Winpe environment (loading the Winpe environment in to memory) and then tried to delete or reimage that partition?

Thought I would ask the question before trying it in case any of you have already done this and know that it works, or rather doesn't.

In theory I can't see any reason why it wouldn't.. You can load Winpe from a CD in to memory and swap CD's without crashing the WinPE environment, so why not on a hard disk?

Any thoughts on this, really appreciated!

Thanks!

#2 pauledavey

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Posted 10 March 2005 - 03:16 AM

*bump*

#3 pauledavey

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Posted 10 March 2005 - 09:47 AM

No one knows? Doh !!!!

#4 ChrisBaksa

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Posted 11 March 2005 - 07:38 AM

I don't do this... but I kow it if fully documented in teh help file for ver 2004 and higher.

Chris

#5 pauledavey

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Posted 11 March 2005 - 08:57 AM

Strange.. I cant see it in the help anywhere..

#6 pauledavey

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Posted 12 March 2005 - 10:24 AM

Just so you all know, this is not possible. Even with WinPE loaded in memory you cannot delete or amend the Winpe folder that it originated from.

#7 getwired

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Posted 14 March 2005 - 08:51 PM

Not true. You just cannot do it with any currently released version of WinPE.

#8 koszopal

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Posted 15 March 2005 - 04:44 AM

hmm i think i ve read on bart pe forum ab. bartpe in memory

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#9 pauledavey

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Posted 15 March 2005 - 05:33 AM

Not true. You just cannot do it with any currently released version of WinPE.

@Getwired - not much use to me now though! :-)

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Posted 17 March 2005 - 09:33 AM

You will be able to boot WinPE into a ram disk with the OPK that comes with w2k3 SP1.

I use this feature to boot WinPE from a hard drive into RAM. I am then able to partition / format the hard drive.