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How to Install Windows using Easy2Boot (v1.8 2021-02-23)
Contents
Glossary...........................................................................................................................................................5
Introduction - Please read! ............................................................................................................................10
'Fixed-disk' or 'Removable-disk'?.................................................................................................................11
'How-to' articles .........................................................................................................................................11
Free Bonus!................................................................................................................................................11
Feedback....................................................................................................................................................11
Important tips ............................................................................................................................................11
Choosing your USB drive................................................................................................................................14
Testing USB drive speeds ............................................................................................................................15
Size is important - 'BIOS BAD'! ....................................................................................................................15
Removable USB drives................................................................................................................................16
Fixed-disk USB drives..................................................................................................................................17
SD cards (not recommended)......................................................................................................................19
Using USB drives with computers................................................................................................................19
Make an E2B drive.........................................................................................................................................20
Make an E2B WinHelper drive for Fixed-disks..............................................................................................21
How to use the WinHelper Flash drive....................................................................................................22
About the WIMBOOT process .....................................................................................................................24
Troubleshooting when using an E2B USB WinHelper flash drive..............................................................25
What is on an E2B USB drive? ........................................................................................................................27
Files in the top level (root) folder ................................................................................................................27
E2B Menu folders .......................................................................................................................................28
\_ISO\docs folder .......................................................................................................................................28
\_ISO\e2b folder.........................................................................................................................................28
Adding your personal files ..........................................................................................................................28
Updating E2B .............................................................................................................................................28
Booting to E2B ...............................................................................................................................................29
Legacy\MBR\BIOS\CSM..............................................................................................................................29
UEFI ...........................................................................................................................................................29
Testing the E2B menu using ‘QEMU Menu test’...........................................................................................30
Exercise 1: Test using QEMU ..................................................................................................................30
Booting on a real system ............................................................................................................................33
Legacy BIOS ...............................................................................................................................................33
UEFI Systems..............................................................................................................................................33
Exercise 2: Boot to the E2B menu...........................................................................................................35
Using E2B.......................................................................................................................................................36
Add some ISOs (add payload files) ..............................................................................................................36
About the E2B Menu Folders ......................................................................................................................36
The 'Special' Sub-Menu folders ...................................................................................................................37
\_ISO\AUTO...........................................................................................................................................37
\_ISO\WINDOWS\xxxx ...........................................................................................................................37
Where to put Windows Install ISOs.............................................................................................................38
All-In-One Install ISOs .................................................................................................................................39
Adding Windows Install ISOs and .imgPTN files...........................................................................................39
List of tested payload files ..........................................................................................................................40
Make files contiguous.................................................................................................................................41
Defraggler..............................................................................................................................................41
How to 'refresh' a fragmented E2B drive.....................................................................................................42
Methods of Installing Windows 8\10 using E2B.............................................................................................43
Windows Install - the traps, pitfalls and workarounds .................................................................................44
About Windows 8\10 Activation .................................................................................................................45
Installing Windows from an ISO.....................................................................................................................46
Description of the old non-WIMBOOT process........................................................................................46
Windows 8\10 Install from ISO file (MBR-boot)...........................................................................................48
Exercise 3: Windows 10 Install from ISO (MBR-boot) ..............................................................................48
Exercise 4: Windows 10 Install from ISO (MBR-boot) automated install ..................................................52
Exercise 5: Windows 10 Install from ISO (MBR-boot) with pre-set UserName and ComputerName .........53
Prompting for more XML values before installation ................................................................................56
Exercise 6: Windows 10 Install from ISO (MBR-boot) with ComputerName pre-set to the PC Serial number
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The WinPE Boot process .............................................................................................................................60
About Windows Setup answer files ...............................................................................................................61
How Windows searches for a valid XML file ................................................................................................61
The WindowsPE pass..................................................................................................................................63
Setup log files ........................................................................................................................................64
The Specialize pass .....................................................................................................................................64
The oobeSystem pass .................................................................................................................................64
Windows Product Keys and Image Index Numbers ......................................................................................64
How to add more .KEY and .XML files to E2B .................................................................................................68
Adding .KEY files.........................................................................................................................................68
Adding .XML Files.......................................................................................................................................70
How to make your own unattend XML file ....................................................................................................71
Exercise 7: Make your own Windows 10 unattended XML file ................................................................71
XMLtoE2B......................................................................................................................................................74
Tips and Tricks with XML files ........................................................................................................................75
ComputerName .....................................................................................................................................75
Product Keys..........................................................................................................................................75
User Accounts\User Name .....................................................................................................................76
SkipMachineOOBE .................................................................................................................................76
Administrator Account...........................................................................................................................76
WipeDisk ...............................................................................................................................................77
Troubleshooting Windows Setup errors ......................................................................................................78
SDI_CHOCO (automated install of drivers and applications) ..........................................................................79
How SDI_CHOCO works ..............................................................................................................................80
Order of execution of main .cmd files.....................................................................................................80
Using .tag files........................................................................................................................................81
The \_ISO\WINDOWS\installs folder structure .......................................................................................81
Exercise 8: Automating a Win10 installation using SDI_CHOCO...............................................................82
Testing Chocolatey.................................................................................................................................85
SDI (Snappy) ..........................................................................................................................................86
How to add another SDI_CHOCO configuration set .....................................................................................87
Exercise 9: Add the SDI_ONLINE_APPS configuration set ........................................................................88
SDI_CHOCO tips..........................................................................................................................................89
Installing offline packages using ChocBox......................................................................................................91
Exercise 10: Add an offline Chocolatey package using ChocBox...............................................................91
How to add your own offline packages .......................................................................................................95
Exercise 11: Create a WinRar 64-bit offline package ...............................................................................95
WinNTSetup ..................................................................................................................................................98
Exercise 12: Use WinNTSetup to install Windows 10..............................................................................99
Using WinNTSetup with E2B v1.A9 and later.........................................................................................104
Using WinNTSetup on UEFI-only systems ..................................................................................................106
UEFI Booting ................................................................................................................................................107
UEFI and E2B............................................................................................................................................107
MemTest86 .imgPTN file ..........................................................................................................................109
Exercise 13: UEFI-boot to MemTest86 using an .imgPTN file .................................................................109
MakePartImage and the MPI Tool Kit ..........................................................................................................115
.imgPTN File extensions............................................................................................................................115
Adding suffixes (E2B only - not agFM)...................................................................................................115
Switching in a .imgPTN image ..................................................................................................................116
Exercise 14: UEFI Windows 10 install....................................................................................................117
About installing Windows + unattend.xml from 'flat-files'...........................................................................121
Exercise 15: Automated UEFI Windows 10 install..................................................................................121
Workarounds for \AutoUnattend.xml not detected ...................................................................................123
Exercise 16: How to add multiple XML files into a .imgPTN file (+files >4GB) ........................................124
Auto.cmd for multiple configuration sets .............................................................................................128
Alternative Auto.cmd...........................................................................................................................130
Windows Install file is larger than 4GB?....................................................................................................131
Using an NTFS partition for >4Gb files.......................................................................................................132
Exercise 17: UEFI-boot to an NTFS partition (no need to split a large Install.wim file) ............................132
Other methods ....................................................................................................................................134
Support for E2B............................................................................................................................................135
Appendix .....................................................................................................................................................136
Valid file extensions for files in the \_ISO\WINDOWS subfolders................................................................136
.ISO files...............................................................................................................................................136
.imgPTN files........................................................................................................................................136
.TXT files ..............................................................................................................................................136
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................................137
Feedback please!......................................................................................................................................137
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