TITLE INSTALL_DUMMY.CMD - Make ALL USB-sticks seen as Fixed Local Harddisk - 06 June 2008

This Batch Program Installs dummy.sys in Your WINDOWS\system32\drivers Folder
So that After Restart ALL USB-sticks are seen as Fixed Local Harddisks

dummydisk.sys was developed by Anton Bassov
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/soviet_direct_hooking.aspx

Windows Disk Manager can then be used to make New Partitions with NTFS Format

This allows you to MultiPartition an USB-stick and use NTFS FileSystem

- Doubleclick INSTALL_DUMMY.cmd so that dummy.sys is Installed in Your System
- Restart Your Computer

Disadvantages:

USB-Drive becomes NOT Boot Drive U: - MkMigrateInf2 does not work for Fixed USB-Drives
Cardreader is not seen as Removable Drives

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TITLE REMOVE_DUMMY.CMD - Make ALL USB-sticks seen as Removable Disks

This Batch Program Removes dummy subkey from your HKLM Registry Key
So that After Restart ALL USB-sticks are seen as Removable Disks

start /wait REG.EXE DELETE HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\dummy

dummy subkey was Removed from your HKLM Registry, Restart Computer to Activate

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More Info See:

From: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20089&st=24


Multi-Partitioning the USB-stick using cfadisk.sys or dummydisk.sys was studied

as follow up on reply of jaclaz in http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21362&st=16

I used cfadisk.sys as described by diddy in http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18846
so that the USB-stick was indeed seen as Fixed Local Disk and patitioning is possible.

Here is the procedure from diddy for using cfadisk.sys slightly modified by me:

Download Hitachi Microdrive Filter (cfadisk.sys) from http://xpefiles.com/cs/files/folders/hardware/entry616.aspx

Open cfadisk.inf and edit the [cfadisk_device] section
by adding an entry with Hardware-id for your USB-stick and removing the others (DiskIBM)

The Hardware-id for your stick is found from
Device Manager > Diskdrives (USB-stick) > Properties > Details > 1st entry
For my 1GB Corsair test USB-stick I get: USBSTOR\DiskCorsair_Flash_Voyager___1.00


CODE
[cfadisk_device]
%Microdrive_devdesc% = cfadisk_install,USBSTOR\DiskCorsair_Flash_Voyager___1.00

Open Device manager and check for your USB drive in "Disk Drives".
Right click on the entry for your drive and select option to update driver.

* Don't use windows update
* Install from a list or specific location
* Don't search. I will choose the driver to install
* Have disk
* Browse to location of edited cfadisk.inf

Update and restart windows

If the driver installed successfully your USB stick should now be mounted as a Local Disk not Removable Disk

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Then I tried to use dummydisk.sys of Anton Bassov
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/soviet_direct_hooking.aspx

as described by Dietmar, but was not successful, as found also by diddy.
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181&st=1957

On booting XP from Harddisk, the system was in trouble and changed to ControlSet002
but dummy.sys belongs to ControlSet001 so that did not work.

The Current ControlSet being used is found in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Select registry key.

I decided to remove the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\dummy\Enum]
from the proposed Registry Tweak.
The point is that the Enum Registry key is produced later by the Windows XP System
and must not be introduced with the Tweak.

After using Ghost for Restore of my XP System, I did install dummy.sys again and got success.

The USB-stick was seen as Fixed Local Harddisk and Partitioning is possible and NTFS Format can be used.

So here is the adapted procedure of Dietmar and diddy which worked for me:

* Downloaded the driver dummydisk.sys
* Renamed dummydisk.sys to dummy.sys and copied it to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers Folder
* Imported the following file to registry:


CODE
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\dummy]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000000
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,\
52,00,49,00,56,00,45,00,52,00,53,00,5c,00,64,00,75,00,6d,00,6d,00,79,00,2e,\
00,73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="USB-Massenspeichertreiber"
"Group"="System Reserved"
"Tag"=dword:00000001


After Reboot your USB device is shown at once as Local harddisk.
Also, every new connected USB stick is shown as Local harddisk and Partitioning is possible.
The fact that dummy.sys is NOT USB-stick Specific, makes it more easy to use than cfadisk.sys

When dummy.sys is Installed, then a with Killdisk Erased USB-stick
will be initiated by Windows Disk Manager giving it a MBR.
Mulptiple Patitions with NTFS Format can be made.
Setting Active the first partition is needed for booting from the stick.

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Without dummydisk.sys the stick is seen as Removable Device and Disk Manager will NOT intitiate the MBR code,
but we can use mbrbatch.cmd for Creating and Writing XP-MBR code on the previously Erased USB-stick.

First mbrbatch.cmd is used from CMD Window to CREATE File my_xp.mbr in mbrbatch directory.
When the USB-stick is Physical Drive 2 we can WRITE file my_xp.mbr to Drive 2 by:


CODE
mbrbatch.cmd CREATE my_xp.mbr
mbrbatch.cmd WRITE my_xp.mbr 2

Change the Drive Number 2 for your USB-stick Drive Number seen in XP Disk Manager.

After Disconnecting and Reconnecting the device, Open Windows XP Disk Manager.
Now it is possible to Create New Partition on USB-stick with Windows Disk Manager.

Allow NTFS Format for Removable Drives by:
Change USB-stick Drive Properties in "optimize for performance"

Open Windows Explorer allows now to Format USB-stick with NTFS FileSystem.

In this way the USB-stick gets a Harddisk like structure wth MBR and a single NTFS Partition
similar to what can be made with HP USB Format Tool.

MBRBATCH from jaclaz is a great tool for this purpose. http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3191

More Interesting Info on USB-sticks Properties See: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

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USB_MultiBoot.cmd can be used for realising multiple PE from USB-Drive having two Partitions.
Simply by running the program twice.

First BartPE plus XP Setup Folders are Installed on First Partition as usual.
Then UBCD4Win is Installed on Second Partition, using Empty XX_Content Source Folder and No Copy of XP Source.

In GRUB4DOS menu.lst on First Partition one has to make adjustment for launching UBCD4Win


CODE
title UBCD4Win - Load PELDR From USB-HD 0 - Partition 1
root (hd0,1)
chainloader (hd0,1)/PELDR

This works, no problem with manual hexediting and no conflict of PROGRAMS folders

USB_MultiBoot.cmd does all the work

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