WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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Yottabytes
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WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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Do WinPE or RE depend on the pre-installation of Image for Windows on a hard drive in order to operate when booting from the WinPE rescue disk? In other words after creating a WinPE/RE, will I be able to use the rescue disk on an unformatted hard drive that doesn't have Image for Windows installed? I'm looking for a work around for the lack of support for file system browsing from the regular IFL rescue disk. See post http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ucf/vi ... f=4&t=2313
TeraByte Support(PP)
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Re: WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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Booting TBWinRE or TBWinPE on a system doesn't require IFW to be installed on it.

Have you tried the current version of IFL V3? Are those partitions still not showing up?
Yottabytes
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Re: WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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Detection of PCI SSDs does work on v3.03 (thanks!) but for some reason the detection and mounting take a long time. Although, having built the WinRE disk since my first post, I see that that disk takes longer to boot than IFL. So I guess it's a coin flip. :?
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Re: WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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I didn't notice any excessive times in my tests, but systems vary a lot.

How long is it actually taking to detect (I assume this is for them to show up in the list)? How long to mount? Difference compared to a normal drive partition on the system?
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Re: WinPE/RE needs IFW pre-installed to operate

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@TeraByte Support. False alarm. My CD drive was loaded and apparently that drive was scanned during the attempt to mount the PCI SSD partitions. Once I removed the CD the PCI SSD mount speed was comparable to my other hard drives. Thanks.
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