Sunday, April 13, 2014

Creating Boot Files for Windows EFI Partition


DISKPART> sel disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list vol

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     E                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1     C                NTFS   Partition    195 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2         WINRE        NTFS   Partition    400 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 3                      FAT32  Partition    260 MB  Healthy    System

DISKPART> sel vol 3

Volume 3 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> assign letter=b:

DiskPart successfully assigned the drive letter or mount point.

cd /d b:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\

bootrec /fixboot

ren BCD BCD.bak

bcdboot c:\Windows /l en-gb /s b: /f ALL

bootrec /fix

bootrec /fixmbr

Saturday, April 5, 2014

How to run executable files on a NTFS partition

$ tail -1 /etc/fstab
/dev/sdaX                  /media/extras            ntfs-3g fmask=0022,dmask=0000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0