Welcome to Super WinPE, ERDC, PQRE 2003 All-In-One CD

This is a multi-bootable CD which put 4 different versions of Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) onto one single CD. These 4 versions of WinPE are Windows PE 2003 [Version 5.2.3790], Windows PE XP-SP1 [Version 5.1.2600], ERD Commander 2003 and PowerQuest Recovery Environment. Coming together with the WinPE's on the same CD are installed programs of large varieties, enabling us to accomplish tasks in different area.

Features:

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) 4in1:

Windows PE XP-SP1 [Version 5.1.2600], i386 folder renamed as \WXPE

ERD Commander 2003 [Version 4.0], i386 folder renamed as \ERDC

PowerQuest Recovery Environment, i386 folder is located at \

Windows PE 2003 [Version 5.2.3790], i386 folder renamed as \W2K3

In stead of booting to the Command Console which is provided in WinPE as default at startup, users can now switch between 4 Windows Shells: NU2Menu (Default), BlueBox, Total Commander or ERD Commander.
RamDrive Z: has been added onto the WinPE. (32MB for WinPE 2003, WinPE XP-SP1 and ERDC 2003, 4MB for PQRE).
Since the BlueBox Shell is to be run on RamDrive, its Styles can be switched instantly even though the WinPE is run on the CD.
Registry will be imported to WinPE and ERDC at startup for those installed programs which had made changes and will check upon it.
WINPE-HD folder is provided which contains the MININT sub-folder and other stuffs for establishing a Windows Preinstallation Environment on Hard-Drive. (i.e. WinPE can also be run on Hard-Drive other than on CD!)
Program_Files folder included are with installed programs, ready run on CD (and/or Hard-Drive). Programs which are expected to be run on Ramdisk Z: have been compressed as Self-Extracted files. To run a Ramdisk Program, you should first extract it to the destination of Ramdisk Z:, and then run the extracted program on Ramdisk.
Installed programs on CD are: Notepad, Wordpad, Editor2, XVI32, MS-Paint, IrfanView, Calculator, Calendor, Explorer, 2xExplorer, Console, RegEdit, nu2menu, Bluebox, totalcmd, DislCmd, Ad-Aware, ob1, FileZilla, WinRAR, WinImage, VNC, rdesktop, putty, DrvCloner, ISOBuster, Nero, CDCheck, Reshacker, PowerQuest & avast! Recovery Tools, Ghost, McafeeAV, SetResolution, IPConfig, TaskMgr, DiskPart. Ramdisk included are Opera7, AVPersonal, UltraISO, CDImageGUI and lastly Partition Magic 8.0.

Introduction:

Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a minimal operating system based on the Windows XP kernel. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (GUI, 800x600) and FAT/FAT32/NTFS/CDFS file-system support. The Good thing about WinPE is that it can boot from a CD, and we can customize it by adding various programs so that it acts as a min-Windows XP system running on CD. By booting the CD into WinPE, it is very handy for us to test system with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, performing virus scan and so on. WinPE will replace our DOS bootdisk experience in no time!

Regular Windows Preinstallation Environment will normally boot into the Command Console where we can enter any supported commands. A shell is then expected so that we can run the commands and the installed program more easily. Instead of using the Windows Explorer which is too big to be set as the default shell, NU2Menu is chosen as our replacement Windows Manager while Bluebox provides us an alternate right-click pop-up menu as well as a multi-function tool bar.

You can also switch to the other 2 alternate shells: The Total Commander or the ERD Commander 2002. Installed programs can be run by just one or two clicks because more buttons have been configured into the Command Bar of the Total Commander, and more icons/shortcuts have been put onto the Desktop of the ERD Commander 2003.

WinPE on Hard-Drive

It is possible to establish a Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) on Hard-Drive C:. You can then boot and run the WinPE on your Hard-Drive. This is a very useful way to learn and custom-make your own WinPE. You need to have a Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP CD to accomplish the following procedure:

Under WinNT/2000/XP/2003, put your Windows 2003 or Windows XP CD into your CDROM-Drive X:.
Run the following command line: x:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons. Follow the instruction to establesh a cmdcons folder onto your boot drive C:. It also will add a line into the boot.ini file under C:\ so that you have the option of booting into the Command Console (WinPE in our case) while you boot your PC.
Remove the WXP/W2K3 CD from your CDROM-Drive and replace it with this SuperWinPE CD.
Use Windows Explorer, copy all Files/Folders under X:\WINPE-HD\W2K3 (or X:\WINPE-HD\WXPE if you used Windows XP CD to generate the cmdcons folder) to the root directory of your Boot-Drive C:\, overwrite all existing files and directories. This will put the WinPE onto our C: drive under the directory C:\MININT, it will also copies some basic programs onto the Program_Files folder at the same time. Other required stuffs are handled as well. This may take up about 180MB space on your C: drive.
If you like, you can select to copy all or some of the provided programs under Program_Files folder of this CD to your C:\Program_Files. This may take up about 150MB additional space on your C: drive.
You can also copy the BRACKGROUNDS folder from this CD to the root directory of your C: drive. If you do so, when you switch to change your bluebox style, its wallpaper will change as well.
Your WinPE on Hard-Drive will be ready upon next boot from your Hard-Drive.

Bootable CD-Menu

Using Boot Scriptor Version 1.2.18, the CD is now able to display BSI & BMP images during the booting time.

The CD is bootable directly into a Main Menu (both GUI and TEXT based are provided) from which you can choose to boot WinPE 2003[Version 5.2.3970], WinPE XP-SP1 [Version 5.1.2600], Winternals ERD Commander 2002, PowerQuest Recovery Environment or Disk Commander 1.1.

In addition to booting to install Windows PE family products, the Multi-Bootable CD is also capable to boot the Rescue Menu 1 and Rescue Menu 2. Rescue Menu 1 contains 16 Advanced Boot Options: MS-DOS 6.22, PC-DOS 7.0, Win98 + CMD Support, Win98 + NTFS Support, Partition Magic 8, Partition Recovery, NAV & Ghost 2003, Bart's Network, SCSI-Tools, CDROM Boot-Disk , EZRecovery, Drive Image 6, SpinRite 5, NetWare Boot-Disk & NT-Password Administration. Rescue Menu 2 contains another 8 Acronis Boot Options: TrueImage, TrueImage Server, Disk Editor, Drive Cleaner, Migrate Easy, Partition Expert Full, Partition Expert Save and Recover Expert. (There are 2 hidden boot options which are not shown from the Menu's: Alt-F9 will boot the GNU/Linux (tomsrtbt) while Shift-F9 will boot the Acronis OS-Selector.)