Yes, I have used it. I doubt if it will be updated anymore. Not that it matters if it still works and you don't need the latest versions of the apps. MediCat USB loads very quickly. As long as you have a large enough UFD, then the size isn't really an issue. It's worth a look. But whatever works for you. I mainly use TBLauncher, which is part of TeraByte Image for Windows.
Apparently Strelec is resuming winpes developments. Today he launched a new release based on W8.1. Nothing on his website. https://t.me/SergeiStrelec/96
Nice to know. I'm settled on the release from January 2022 which replaced an earlier version. It is by far the quickest loading pE for my Windows i ever used. It basically serves only for my own Drive Snapshot License Version and NOT the one included in it. Testing it long ago it didn't work anyway. The basic reason i settled on Sergei Strelec PE is that no matter how bugged a Hard Drive or System is, it always offords a quick and easy access to that system for repairs or as mentioned i use my own DS for Restores with it. It is remained a VITAL access PE for my DS and pretty much that's it. I don't have the time to fit other of my own tools into it and frankly not needed anyway. However it makes dislodging stubborn windows files a breeze as well as easy access to replace registry files when windows pukes. It gets me right back up and running in no time flat without having to resort to an image restore just for those minor nuisances.
Hi i agree ,but is there a easy guide to build a winpe to stat with an usb stick many software i use are portable too like total commander , drive snapshot ..
I know two ways of doing your own WinPE: 1. Microsoft's official way (not easy for beginners I think, no Start Menu, no support to run most apps, it can run DS, IFW) 2. Win10XPE unofficial way (kinda easy due to WinBuilder and adds support to run apps including portables, and those that need .NET Framework, includes start menu, adding drivers, etc)
If you only want to run a certain program (or a small selection of programs) from memory then you're better of reading up and studying how to make a basic (but powerful) boot media like the ones that companies make to run, deploy their software / Windows installations etc across all of their computers. Unless someone really needs to use all of that software. I find the Strelec (and similar) boot media with start menus, task bars etc to be not only way too bloated but they take ages to boot up and all of the ones I've tested requires the usb stick to remain plugged in, which I don't like that at all as boot media shouldn't be needed to remain plugged into the computer.
I've posted this before. You don't even need a dedicated WinPE to run portable software. You can run IFW or DS from Windows boot media. Which most people already have.
Yes, I know IFW and DS runs from the most basic WinPE and Windows Boot Media like many others programs do. Some portables won't run even for not being .NET Framework present though.
No, a basic Win7, 8, 10 or 11 boot disk. I use UFDs. For example. Put snapshot64.exe in the root of the Win10 UFD or in a partition Boot from your Win 10 UFD Next On the Install now window, click Repair your computer Troubleshoot System Image Recovery Windows 10 If you have a Re-image Your Computer Window, click Cancel Select a system image Next Advanced Install a Driver Drag the Add Drivers window to the very top left corner of your monitor and then click OK double click This PC (drive letters may be different from booted Win 10 ) Navigate to snapshot64 (extensions aren't shown). Right click snapshot64 (the Application, file extensions aren't shown) and choose Open. click Cancel on the "Open" window click Cancel on the "Add Drivers" window Drag the "Re-image your Computer" window to the bottom of your monitor so the Drive Snapshot window is in full view Drive Snapshot is ready to use.
Yet I still don't understand why not to create a WinPE which can be loaded in multiple different computers. ChrisR's PE Bakery can create a W11 build which observes same drive letters as the installed Windows does. The latter I tested with my own PC only, I don't have experience with multiple machines, yet.
I found it. I'm not interested. I'll bet it takes a long time to load and I have no need for the included apps. I like fast booting restore media. IFU, Image for UEFI, boots in less than a second.
Sergei Strelec's PE boots my machines similarly. I also absolutely admire fast booting restore media and wish more commercial programs that offer them could fire up as fast without leaving a user twiddling their thumbs waiting for it to eventually load.
If i have done an image with DS and want to do another one, it has to be named something else so the former does not get overwritten, this changing of the image name confuses me since i have not figured out how to do this when backing up over time. So can someone please tell me how, and what it is one has to change or add to the 2 3 4 etc backup so the first stays and the other ones do not has to be changed to much from the first. Now it all becomes a mess and i, as i said, how not figured out how to get the naming in such a way that i get it in order so by mere looking at the backup, i know which one it is. I have tried with number so far, 1 2 3 etc, but can not get it right. So, how should i do it, how does anyone do it?
You can do it with a batch file... Code: command line to create an image called "full.SNA" IF EXIST 11_15.SNA (DEL 11_15.SNA) IF EXIST 11_14.SNA (REN 11_14.SNA 11_15.SNA) IF EXIST 11_13.SNA (REN 11_13.SNA 11_14.SNA) IF EXIST 11_12.SNA (REN 11_12.SNA 11_13.SNA) IF EXIST 11_11.SNA (REN 11_11.SNA 11_12.SNA) IF EXIST 11_10.SNA (REN 11_10.SNA 11_11.SNA) IF EXIST 11_09.SNA (REN 11_09.SNA 11_10.SNA) IF EXIST 11_08.SNA (REN 11_08.SNA 11_09.SNA) IF EXIST 11_07.SNA (REN 11_07.SNA 11_08.SNA) IF EXIST 11_06.SNA (REN 11_06.SNA 11_07.SNA) IF EXIST 11_05.SNA (REN 11_05.SNA 11_06.SNA) IF EXIST 11_04.SNA (REN 11_04.SNA 11_05.SNA) IF EXIST 11_03.SNA (REN 11_03.SNA 11_04.SNA) IF EXIST 11_02.SNA (REN 11_02.SNA 11_03.SNA) IF EXIST 11_01.SNA (REN 11_01.SNA 11_02.SNA) REN full.SNA 11_01.SNA
@Hadron is also well onboard with many generous shared DS command line scripts that automate DS into more than it's basic approach. In fact i have a copy/paste plethora of those shared here which i like to use on occasion but lately Aomei has drawed all my attention. Soon i expect to apply those "many" various DS scripts in testing my own systems with DS. There's a wealth of information scattered about in both the current running DS threads i think. Very useful!
Interesting. But i would like to know how i can, manually, change DS default naming without problem. I was unclear before but this is what i mean: i create an image with DS, then later i do another, and to get that one to be different one has to change the default naming that comes up (which i do not know how), so i add something in the end, an A or 1 2 3 etc. But that does not work. So i have to change something else, or more, so i do it, randomly, without knowing what i do until it works. What i want to know is, HOW should it be done to get my image # 1 2 3 named just 1 2 3.
OK. Using UEFI, multi-partition backup. Run DS with this filename every time... $disk-$date-$hour-$minute.sna
Ha ha, i have said it before and say it again, you should have a Donate button - Brian K! This was just beautiful, beautiful. So simple yet so effective and solved the problem. Thanks! Is there any other scripts or commandos that one can read about somewhere? I am going to look thrue the DS threads that exists but besides them, where can i read about commands and scripts? Am also going to look at how to put DS on a external boot media, like IFW or Macrium. About the other text you posted, 1 - 15, how do i use that, i guess i should paste it somewhere, but where?
There are quite a few scripts in this thread... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/drive-snapshot.423033/page-8#post-2930926 DS has a command line page... http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/commandline.htm
Even if most of it does not say much to me i am going to take a look. What about your post 319, how would i implement that if i should use it, paste it somewhere i guess?
