PE to hard drive

[GCI]

Hi there everyone.

As a little experience, I thought it would be fun to move a PE (from a cd) to my actual hard drive. Remember, this is purely for experimental purposes. To be more specific, I have LiveXP on a cd and I'm porting it to a hard disk.

So far, so good. But now, I've just started to enter the grey area of PEs. I get a BSOD when I boot it up saying Stop 0xC0000009A SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATIO, which as I understand, means windows has found something tampered with and doesn't want me. PEs in particular, I would imagine, would get Microsoft really edgy.

What I'm hoping is a registry professional here can tell me what I have to patch/change to get rid of this error message, or even bypass it.

Remember, reinstalling is not an option ;)

Thanks in advanced.

[DKT27]

What is PEs you are talkin about? ANW for that BSOD message this link would be helpful - http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-3881.html

There are many images and their description in the link, open and match each one of them with your's problem

[GCI]

What is PEs you are talkin about? ANW for that BSOD message this link would be helpful - http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-3881.html

There are many images and their description in the link, open and match each one of them with your's problem

Thanks :)

The link seems to have only a few of the many possible BSOD error messages, which does not include mine. All of the web resources I have come across say "reformat your pc!" But that's not an option for me. And the pe is LiveXP.

[Bizarre™]

@GCI:

I think porting PE to your HD would not work, since it will just defeat its purpose: to run on other media besides HD.

In any case, best of luck to your project.

[GCI]

@GCI:

I think porting PE to your HD would not work, since it will just defeat its purpose: to run on other media besides HD.

In any case, best of luck to your project.

True, but like I said, it's just for my own education. And what a good job it's done so far :P

I now know (mostly) the boot process between windows and the pe alternative, as well as how to import other registry hives :lol:

Although I still need help :s

[tonyblair]

@GCI:

I think porting PE to your HD would not work, since it will just defeat its purpose: to run on other media besides HD.

In any case, best of luck to your project.

True, but like I said, it's just for my own education. And what a good job it's done so far :P

I now know (mostly) the boot process between windows and the pe alternative, as well as how to import other registry hives :lol:

Although I still need help :s

Hi GCI,

What do you mean by "porting" from the CD to the HD?

could you explain: is it a simple copy...? 

[Bizarre™]

@tonyblair:

GCI wants to run LiveXP on HD.

[HX1]

True, but like I said, it's just for my own education. And what a good job it's done so far :P

I now know (mostly) the boot process between windows and the pe alternative, as well as how to import other registry hives :lol:

Although I still need help :s

I should get you to make my custom BartPE disk...

I tried making one once.. from the one I have and it didn't work...I wanted to add some programs one of which being Apache configured to run as the C:/ drive as home dir. w/e I didn't do I screwed it up.. and I still have to have my OS CD to create one from my installation which happens to be OEM and only came with a recovery CD..all automated.. and altered from regular XP form..

[DKT27]

Don't mind but I will say it again, BartPE isn't any good. Buggy and slow.

[tonyblair]

@tonyblair:

GCI wants to run LiveXP on HD.

Thanks GCI,

From my knowledge, running a program from a CD, DVD, Floppy, HD is always possible (the CPU do not care about these media

if the instructions to be executed are ready in the RAM).

Now we are speaking (if I understand) about executing a program at boot not from a CD but from a HD. The problem here we are

in the 16 bit world real mode (for compatibility, thanks Intel), the BIOS, the MBR the loaders (stage 1, stage 2) have to control

directly the hardware of the above different media (Heads, sectors, cylinders, tracks..) to read and load in the memory the correct

sequence of instructions to be executed. These parameters are in fact different.

To run LiveXp from HD and not CD, we have to deal with the MBR and the Loaders (or chain loaders) and adapt them to do job

in a correct way (including multiboot).

This guy (Shirin Zaban) in this site : www.boot-land.net

sharecode: /forums/index.php? s=720ddb758fc659c373c2398d79ebf700&showtopic=4866 (no space between php? and s=)

solve the problem for BartPE :

"BartPE is a nice program and there are a lot of My friends that use

live CD created by PEbuider. and some of theme asked me to write a

Tutorial about using that from hard disk.They thought that information

about installing it in hard disk is not clear."

Hope that this could help.

Cheers

[GCI]

Interesting... actually, simply copying the CD's boot files, I was able to boot up most of the way. Problem was, I got an lsass error saying object Name was not found. I'm pretty that's a registry entry, but I have no idea to what.

[tonyblair]

Interesting... actually, simply copying the CD's boot files, I was able to boot up most of the way. Problem was, I got an lsass error saying object Name was not found. I'm pretty that's a registry entry, but I have no idea to what.

Sorry to ask more questions than giving answers.

But I want to understand. 

Copying files from a CD to a HD do not make that HD bootable, as copy cannot access sector zero (it is write protected).

You said that "I was able to boot up most of the way, I got an error..", Does this error appear when you boot from the CD?

[GCI]

Interesting... actually, simply copying the CD's boot files, I was able to boot up most of the way. Problem was, I got an lsass error saying object Name was not found. I'm pretty that's a registry entry, but I have no idea to what.

Sorry to ask more questions than giving answers.

But I want to understand.

Copying files from a CD to a HD do not make that HD bootable, as copy cannot access sector zero (it is write protected).

You said that "I was able to boot up most of the way, I got an error..", Does this error appear when you boot from the CD?

It's ok, ask away. I can still actually use the CD version of the PE to add the MBR, or whatever makes it boot up. And this error appears after what you would normally see as the windows loading screen, with the bars going across. Then my wallpaper shows up, then an lsass error says object Name not found.

[tonyblair]

Thanks,

"Stop 0xC0000009A SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION"

Read these Microsoft KB articles:

1- support.microsoft.com/kb/174228

2- support.microsoft.com/kb/156358/EN-US/

Perhaps they could lead you to the point.

[GCI]

Thanks,

"Stop 0xC0000009A SYSTEM_LICENSE_VIOLATION"

Read these Microsoft KB articles:

1- support.microsoft.com/kb/174228

2- support.microsoft.com/kb/156358/EN-US/

Perhaps they could lead you to the point.

Well, I guess I've kind of deleted everything there now. Reformatted the drive, now I'm using BartPE with it's PE installer (the installer script 2.0.2) and it seems to have a bug in it. Says C:\ntldr is missing, even though I can tell it's there. Thanks for your help so far.