Test boot BartPE ISO with Virtual PC 2004

<body leftmargin="5" topmargin="5" bottommargin="1" bgcolor="#666699"> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#FFFFFF"><b> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial Black"><font size="5">How to use “Virtual PC 2004”</font><font size="4"> to test-boot  BartPE ISOs</font><font size="5"> </font></span></b></font><span lang="en-gb"><font size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><b> <span style="font-family: Arial Black"> </span></b></font></span></p> <blockquote> <table border="1" width="712" id="table3" height="263" bgcolor="#EBEBEB"> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"><i><b> <font face="Arial Black" size="3"><span lang="EN-GB">Virtual PC 2004 is is free and a great tester for your Reatogo CDs.</span></font></b></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"><b> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">It allows you to boot the ISO without burning a CD.</span></font></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">However your CD has to include the special drivers etc. for it so that the emulated soundcard and network card etc. are supported.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB">The  plugin for “VMAdditions XP VirtPC 2004” does that for you.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"><span lang="en-gb"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b>This plugin is standalone</b> (does not depend on the Reatogo setup).<br> <font color="#FF0000"><b>NOTE: This plugin is ONLY for XP (not 2k3)</b></font></font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Arial Black"><b> <a href="http://www.reatogo.de/Downloads/plugins/VMAddVirtPC2004_autoHelp.zip"> Download the AutoHelp Plugin</a></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB">created by Reatogo, based on a plugin originally created by Mustang.</span></font></td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">The needed files can <b>normally</b> only be collected if you actually install WinXP on a Virt. Machine, install the VMAdditions to it, boot your “virtual XP installation” and then copy the files from within that virtual boot. </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>To avoid that you have to install XP on a virtual machine just to get these files</b>, this plugin extracts the files from "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions\<b>VMAdditions.iso</b>" within your REAL XP installation.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">Included in the plugin is also a “TEMPLATE_DISK.vhd” for you, which is a virtual hard drive that is already formatted with NTFS and ready to use. To get this disk whould otherwise also require a virt. Machine with XP installed. A virtual machine can have max. 3 disks. Just rename copies of the template and point the virt. machine to them.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><b><span lang="EN-GB">In short:</span></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB">If you just want to use the Virtual PC as a tester for ISOs, the plugin and the disk template allows you to set up for that without installing XP to a virtual machine.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Arial" size="4"><b><span lang="EN-GB">PROCEDURE: </span></b> </font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></font></p> <blockquote> <table border="1" width="714" id="table4" height="202" bgcolor="#EBEBEB"> <tr> <td> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b> <span lang="EN-GB">1.)  </span></b> <a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; " href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D58729D-DFA8-40BF-AFAF-20BCB7F01CD1&displaylang=en"> <span lang="EN-GB"><b>Download and install the free Virtual PC 2004</b> from MS</span></a></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"><b>2.)  Create a virtual machine</b> using the wizard of the program.</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB">Use the attached “TEMPLATE_DISK.vhd” as a hard disk for the new virt. Machine you created. (Already formatted with NTFS and ready to use)</span></font></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"><b>3.)  Configure the plugin</b> for “VMAdditions XP VirtPC 2004”</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"><b>4.)  Build your recovery CD (ISO)</b> including the VMAdditions from (3)</span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <span lang="EN-GB"><b>5.)  Start the virtual Machine</b> and point it to the ISO you want to boot:</span></font></p> </blockquote></td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img border="0" src="SUB_REATOGO_VIRT_PC_2004/SetUp_VirtPC2004/CD_DRIVE_ISO-1.jpg" width="404" height="254"></font></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <img border="0" src="SUB_REATOGO_VIRT_PC_2004/SetUp_VirtPC2004/CD_DRIVE_ISO-2.jpg" width="528" height="366"></font></p> </blockquote> </body>