Village_Elder
Member
Hi, I apologize if this has already been covered, or if I'm posting it in the wrong place, but I've been all over this forum and cannot find an answer to this question.
Background:
I've been an EasyBCD user for several years and it happily manages my Windows Boot Manager. I don't have any urgent issues, but recently thought it would be cool to try to create a multiboot UFD (USB Flash Drive) for emergency restore purposes. This UFD contains various utilities that I use to manage my desktop box for routine maintenance and disaster recovery. The documented EasyBCD feature works as advertised.
But I'd also like to convert that bootable UFD to a bootbale ISO that can be stored on hard disk and accessible by my Windows Boot Manager at startup. ISO format would facilitate backup and minimize the number of UFD's I need to manage.
The Problem:
No one on this forum (and in other forums I've visited) seems to have addressed this issue. Most of the discussions center around making an Windows installation ISO bootable by using 3rd party tools like Imgburn or Ultraiso, Poweriso, etc. In those cases, you have the original bootimage file available to you from the installation CD or in one of the boot folders, etc. But an inspection of the boot folders generated by EasyBCD has no boot image file. The many times I've tried to work around the problem by injecting various boot image files have all resulted in failure.
So, I'm trying to resist the urge to jump into Linux and hack something together, or reverse engineer the EasyBCD build process. I'm thinking there's got to be an easy answer to this question. So what am I missing?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thx, in advance.
Background:
I've been an EasyBCD user for several years and it happily manages my Windows Boot Manager. I don't have any urgent issues, but recently thought it would be cool to try to create a multiboot UFD (USB Flash Drive) for emergency restore purposes. This UFD contains various utilities that I use to manage my desktop box for routine maintenance and disaster recovery. The documented EasyBCD feature works as advertised.
But I'd also like to convert that bootable UFD to a bootbale ISO that can be stored on hard disk and accessible by my Windows Boot Manager at startup. ISO format would facilitate backup and minimize the number of UFD's I need to manage.
The Problem:
No one on this forum (and in other forums I've visited) seems to have addressed this issue. Most of the discussions center around making an Windows installation ISO bootable by using 3rd party tools like Imgburn or Ultraiso, Poweriso, etc. In those cases, you have the original bootimage file available to you from the installation CD or in one of the boot folders, etc. But an inspection of the boot folders generated by EasyBCD has no boot image file. The many times I've tried to work around the problem by injecting various boot image files have all resulted in failure.
So, I'm trying to resist the urge to jump into Linux and hack something together, or reverse engineer the EasyBCD build process. I'm thinking there's got to be an easy answer to this question. So what am I missing?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thx, in advance.