zoltanthegypsy
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Hope I'm in the right place here...
I have a "swiss army" flash drive that has on it - among other things - the 32 and 64 bit recovery CD ISOs. I boot them with grub legacy:
title Windows 7 Recovery 64 bit
kernel /boot/isolinux/memdisk iso raw
initrd /ISOs/Windows_7_64-bit_Repair_Disc.iso
They both boot OK on my ThinkPads: T400 and T420. Both machines have healthy Win 7 Pro 64 installs.
If I boot the physical burned CD, the tool finds the installed OS. If I boot the ISO, it doesn't. I can read the OS partition and cd to it from the command line.
This has worked successfully on other machines (IIRC...) but not on these TPs.
My other booted ISOs (spinrite, etc) boot and function correctly.
Any suggestions?
[edit] If I 7zip extract the ISO files to the active fat32 partition on the flash drive, it boots and finds the OS. Hmmm. That kills the multi-boot possibilities of ISO booting, AFAICS.
[more edit] Tried the easyBCD approach. Boots OK, but doesn't find the OS either. Says "problems found" but doesn't list the OS.
Thanks,
Z.
I have a "swiss army" flash drive that has on it - among other things - the 32 and 64 bit recovery CD ISOs. I boot them with grub legacy:
title Windows 7 Recovery 64 bit
kernel /boot/isolinux/memdisk iso raw
initrd /ISOs/Windows_7_64-bit_Repair_Disc.iso
They both boot OK on my ThinkPads: T400 and T420. Both machines have healthy Win 7 Pro 64 installs.
If I boot the physical burned CD, the tool finds the installed OS. If I boot the ISO, it doesn't. I can read the OS partition and cd to it from the command line.
This has worked successfully on other machines (IIRC...) but not on these TPs.
My other booted ISOs (spinrite, etc) boot and function correctly.
Any suggestions?
[edit] If I 7zip extract the ISO files to the active fat32 partition on the flash drive, it boots and finds the OS. Hmmm. That kills the multi-boot possibilities of ISO booting, AFAICS.
[more edit] Tried the easyBCD approach. Boots OK, but doesn't find the OS either. Says "problems found" but doesn't list the OS.
Thanks,
Z.
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