So I've been wanting to put a windows 10 ISO on my flash drive, but I have WinPe by strelec already on it. I don't know how I can a windows installer on top of it and I don't even know if that's even possible at all... Please send help I'm a newbie when it comes to software
Unfortunately no, it is not possible to have multiple bootable OSes if something is already present, (at least to the extent of my knowledge) but if you'd like to dualboot on a clean USB drive, (erase your existing one, even) there exist several tools that can do that, such as Easyboot, syslinux, or even grub4dos. Some other helpful resources can also be found at Reboot.pro. However, if you are currently running Windows, I recommend WinSetupFromUSB as an easy way to get a multiboot USB drive going.
Yes It's possible just use ventoy and You can have multiple ISO's in the same usb, boot from USB and choose the want to boot, https: //www.ventoy.net/
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I'm looking for a way to ensure that a USB device plugged into a Windows 7 machine will be mounted in a reliable, repeatable way.
I don't have that much Windows experience, but I wondered if there was a way to make the equivalent of a udev rule in Linux to match certain parameters to identify the device and then mount it on a specific COM port.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Sarcastic answer:
I've looked for C:\Windows\etc\udev.d but there's no such directory
;)
Less sarcastic answer:
As far as I know, the only way to configure devices in windows is via the device management UI which can be started with mmc devmgmt.msc
This is obviously not even similar or even close to udev, there is no possibility to do this without the GUI.
Is there any way Not to detect USB from windows PC?
The USB device should not mount on windows PC ,It should be handled by my application..
Suggestions please...
As far as I know there is no way of stopping the mount on the windows PC, however, you could set it up to autorun so that when it is plugged it in attempts to launch your application. This answer has some information on how to do this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/255067
There is also the option to hide a drive in windows by removing is drive letter (http://www.howtogeek.com/97203/how-to-hide-a-drive-in-windows-so-that-no-one-will-know-its-there/) however, this is almost certainly going to stop your application from reading it too.
If this is for a specific security reason then perhaps you could look at encrypting the drive and allowing only the application to decrypt the data. Thus, whilst mounted in windows it will be of little use.
Sorry I couldn't be of much more help.
Microsoft provides a utility called devcon for free download.
It's a "Command Line Uility Alternative to Device Manager".
It can actually do many things that I won't get into here, but removing a plug & play device is a simple operation once you know the unique name of the device you want to manipulate.
Refer this to check how to work with it.
It sounds like you don't want your device to show up as a drive in My Computer. In that case, why are you using the Mass Storage Device class at all? You could make a custom, vendor-specific device and talk to it using control/interrupt/bulk transfers with WinUSB. You would need to change the Device's USB descriptors to indicate it is a vendor-specific device and not a mass-storage device.
I want to create a fake flash drive programmatically under Mac OSX and Windows.
It should behave like a normal drive, that means it should appear in explorer/finder, should be unmountable,.. If someone puts some data in it, it should be handled in a backend software.
Is that possible?
I'm not aware of any existing cross-platform frameworks. For Windows, the documentation for writing device drivers is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff557573. See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463062 but note that this is hard-core stuff.
My dad is looking for ways to automate checking the settings of a Windows server for giving it a standards compliance grade. He needs to know if more than one OS is installed, but wants to avoid taking down the server at all costs. Is there any technique within Windows (XP and newer) for programmatically ascertaining whether a machine has multiple OSs installed?
It depends on what you consider "an installed OS".
At the very least you'd have to scan all partitions (including the ones Windows's limited filesystem support can't recognize) for filesystems and then see if they "look" like another OS. If you need to know if the alternate OS is bootable as well, you'll have to scan for boot loaders and their configuration as well.
By the way, what difference does it make if there's another OS installed on the computer?
Not entirely reliably. You could attempt to access the MBR and the partition table and sniff for evidence of the competition if you can persuade Windows to let you open the other partitions as raw devices. It would be a heap of work.
How about doing a checksum of the bootloader and comparing it against a known-good list of Windows OS bootloaders on the HDs?
How does one go about creating a virtual CD driver on Mac OS X programatically?
I can't find any relevant Cocoa APIs or any pure C BSD solutions.
Any help or information is appreciated.
You would need to use the I/O Kit framework to develop your own device driver that would emulate a virtual CD drive. Here are some links to the relevant APIs to get you started.
I/O Kit Fundamentals
I/O Kit Device Driver Guidelines
Kernel Extension Programming Topics
There are several different answers people have proposed here. The issue at hand is what are you trying to accomplish. If you really want to emulate a CD ROM (down to the commandset) you will need to write a device driver. If your goal is merely to emulate a block device with contents similiar to a CD you can create a disk image using disk utility and let the builtin disk image driver handle it for you.
MacFUSE is useful if you want to present some sort of custom filesystem functionality, but if what you are looking for is something that has the same semantics as an optical disc (whether that is and block or command set level) it is the wrong tool.
If you're simply looking to mount an ISO or something then it's done through the Disk Utility, simply drag it into the side-bar and then select it and choose mount.
If you want to do it from code you can issue the hdiutil command, as shown here. I'm not sure if there's an API call to do it, but getting that command to do the work is quite painless.
The simplest way to mount a custom volume is MacFUSE. It handles the IOKit details for you and lets you write the implementation in user space. However, I don’t think you can make a MacFUSE “look like” a CD; you’d have to modify FUSE to achieve that.
I had a nosey around DAEMON Tools for Mac's driver:
/Library/Extensions/DAEMONToolsVirtualSCSIBus.kext/Contents/MacOS/DAEMONToolsVirtualSCSIBus
I disassembled the binary using Hopper and discovered they are using
IOSCSIProtocolServices.