09-14-2024, 12:20 PM
(09-14-2024, 12:42 AM)n8chavez Wrote: The better question is, why take up needless space. In fact you just said that HBS does not use c:\boot, but extracts a .win from a created .iso. That's a waste.
The Windows boot loader cannot boot WinPE directly from an ISO file, so the WIM and SDI files must be extracted from the ISO file in order to boot WinPE. The premise of your question is that the customer has added HBS to the boot menu, but if the customer has not added HBS to the boot menu, where are we going to store WinPE? In addition, if we don't keep the ISO file, the program will have to recreate the ISO file when the customer creates the emergency disk, which is a time-consuming process. Of course we can store the WIM and SDI files in the C:\boot folder in any case, and then use the WIM and SDI files stored in C:\boot to regenerate the ISO when needed, but to be honest we think it's safer to store the files in the installation directory of our own program.
Your suggestion is good, but as you think we need to make a lot of changes to the process of adding boot menu and creating WinPE, however we have more important things to accomplish, so I hope you can understand.