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I hope to make sense explaining this.  What I am trying to do is create a multiboot Recovery CD that contains All Recovery CD's (Win7-32-64-bit, Vista 32-64-bit, XP) but have a question about extracting the files to c:\easyboot\disk1 folder.  When i open the 1st iso (Vista 32-bit) the are 2 folders and a bootmgr file.  Do I take all files there and extract them to the disk1 folder?  If so the first iso extracts to disk1 folder easily.  When I go to the second iso (Vista 64-bit) the iso files that need to be extracted show up as duplicates since they are named the same so it wants to replace the other files.  What do I do to avoid this so I can add all iso files?  I am a newbie to Easyboot so confused a little. I included screenshot.  Please help.  Thanks in advanced.

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@BarneyFife

As this is your first post in this community - I say welcome @BarneyFife :)

Quote: "I am trying to do is create a multiboot Recovery CD that contains All Recovery CD's (Win7-32-64-bit, Vista 32-64-bit, XP)"

This is a pretty easy task to solve :;):

Do it this way to solve Vista\Win-7 recovery ISO-files (typically based on NT6-system such as Vista\Win-7\server-2008)
Note: we are going to use ISO-files of above recovery CD's - so you need ISO-files of above

To solve Vista\Win-7 different recovery options do it this way:

1. Copy ISO-file of, let's say, 'Windows_7_32bit_Recovery_Disc.iso' to folder EZBOOT

2. rename ISO to, let's say, 'win7_32rec.iso' (use short names)

3. Use menu command in EasyBoot:  run win7_32rec.iso

4. Only check 'Joliet' when creating ISO in EasyBoot

Do the same to any of Vista-recovery.iso or to any of Win-7-recovery.iso
Note: typically examples of theses different ISO-files are: DaRT70.iso, msdart_vista60.iso, Windows_7_64bit_Recovery.iso, Windows_Vista_Recovery_Disk.iso and continue...

You can have as many ISO-files you want in build :laugh:
Note: above works only if you use EasyBoot_v6.1 or later version (last release of Easyboot is version 6.5.2.695)

Above works also from USB device as well :;):
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Now to XP-repair\recovery systems

This is a little bit more tricky :cool:

WinXP or server-2003 is typically NT5-system and much different from NT6-systems (Vista\Win-7\server-2008)
This means we cannot launch NT5-system in the same way as NT6-systems
We are on the other hand interested to use ISO-file directly as this makes it easy to mix different recovery systems of WinXP (NT5-system) simply by giving ISO-files different names.

Note: typically recovery NT5-systems are: erd50.iso, BartPE, Reatogo that all have folder I386 inside ISO-file.

To integrate NT5-recovery systems do it this way:

1. Download my set of scripts (you have download below in every post I write in this forum)

2. Extract folder 'balder' to the root (C:)

3. Read carefully 'READ_ME.html' inside folder 'balder'

4. Use 'easyboot-iso.script' to integrate any of WinXP-recovery ISO-files (ERD5 or whatever)

5. Attention! Check 'Run ISO from RAM' in script as you are trying to launch ISO-file of an  NT5-system

6. Only check 'Joliet' when creating ISO in EasyBoot

Continue integrating as many different ISO-files based on NT5-system as you like

When creating ISO in EasyBoot only check 'Joliet'

Above works also from USB device as well!

balder


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Thanks so much for the excellent explination for my questions.  It is greatly appreciated.  You said copy iso's to the easyboot folder, so does this mean the easyboot\iso folder or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot folder?  I am just making sure that i get this right.  You took a great deal of time to answer my questions and I really appreciate it a lot.

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@BarneyFife

Quote: "easyboot\iso folder or C:\EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot folder?"

I wrote in post nr;2 quote: "to folder EZBOOT"

You obviously only have one folder EZBOOT and that is in folder EasyBoot\disk1 :O

So copy ISO-file built from source of NT6-system (Vista\Win-7\server-2008 which typically is MsDArt70 or similar) to folder 'EasyBoot\disk1\ezboot' :;):

However notice the difference how you must treat rescue ISO-files based on NT5-systems (NT5-systems are typically WinXP\server2003 that have folder I386 inside ISO-file).

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Thanks again Balder for taking the time to explain this to me.  You are Da Bomb!!! :D
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