[Kelsenellenelvian]

OH I also meant to post the actual cmd and ask if adding the reg.exe was fine.

Makes me wonder though Jaclaz:

If this works for the lba fix what else can we cram in to the HIV file this way?

This post has been edited by Kelsenellenelvian: 27 January 2010 - 08:06 PM

[jaclaz]

Kelsenellenelvian, on Jan 27 2010, 09:54 PM, said:

OH I also meant to post the actual cmd and ask if adding the reg.exe was fine.

Makes me wonder though Jaclaz:

If this works for the lba fix what else can we cram in to the HIV file this way?

Well, almost "anything".

SETUPREG.HIV is nothing but an initial canvas on which the "base" registry of the OS to be installed will be created upon.

If you are into experimenting, here are some ideas:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...125116&st=0

And some related examples:
http://www.msfn.org/...opic=122505&hl=
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=8798
http://ubcd4win.com/...?showtopic=5398

The technique is widely used on PE's.

jaclaz

[os2fan2]

Have a look in setupreg.hiv, you will see that it loads various things like device drivers and services.

Things ye might include here are alternate disk driver utilities, or video drivers: pretty much anything that needs a service.

Because in essence, this is the registry for the character mode setup.

The full setup is not made until the character mode setup is done: watch the bottom line as setup is run. You will see it loading hivesft, hivedft, etc at the very end of the process.

[Phenomic]

Thanks to os2fan2 for post #18

I could swear I've seen an nlite option to enable 48-bit LBA, "large disks" or something to that effect.

I have installed Win2k+sp4 on 160GB sata disks without EnableBigLba in registry and it works fine -- how come? But also I have cases where only the first 128GB are seen and the rest is "unformatted", "corrupt", etc.

About REG.EXE batch commands, I use quotes (e.g in ADD command) in case filenames or parameters contain spaces.