Multi-boot CD guide - Part 1 : ERD commander,BartPE,Hiren and the gangs

Introduction
This guide will show you how to create multi-boot CD which store all your favourite diagnostic/recovery tools in only one CD. I use a multi-boot loader called " Boot CD Wizard(bcdw) " lastest version ( v.2.01a ) . In this example I want to store BartPE, ERD commander, memtest86+, Bart netboot, 98/me startup disk , Hiren's boot cd , ntldr missing fix disk , Spintrite , HDD regenertator and PC-Check on this CD .

Prerequisite

1. Boot CD wizard v2.01a ( boot loader for multi-boot CD ) info?
2. CDIMAGE - commandline or GUI version ( microsoft's CD mastering tool ) info?
3. BBIE - Bart's Boot Image Extractor ( for extracting boot image from bootable CD or CD image , i.e. Hiren's boot CD or BartPE or ERD commander ) info?
4. HEX editor - for editing the cd's boot sector file ( i.e. WinHEX , PSPAD , UltraEdit ) info?
5. Original CD of BartPE, ERD commander, Hiren's boot cd.
6. Floppy image of memtest86+ ,Bart netboot, 98/me startup disk, ntldr missing fix disk , Spintrite ,HDD regenertator and PC-Checck.( if you are lazy , you can d/l from this floppy.boot.img.rar.)
7. Other useful program like Ghost,Partition magic ,etc.(Can put anywhere on your Bootable CD)

CD's content preparing

1. Create a folder for your BootCD data, e.g. C:\mycd ( this is root of your cd )
2. Create folder called C:\mycd\bcdw , then copy the files loader.bin, bcdw.bin and bcdw.ini from BCDW archive to C:\mycd\bcdw.
3. File bcdw.ini is the main configuration file of BCDW v2.01a
4. For BartPE CD
- copy folder i386 and all other folders to C:\mycd and rename i386 folder, the name has to consist of 4 characters e.g. BTPE. Do not edit any files in these folders ,then copy files WIN51* to C:\mycd (WIN51,WIN51IP,WIN51IS,WIN51IP.SP1 - if exists)
- extract boot sector of BartPE CD. You need Bart's Bootable Image Extractor , run in cmd prompt e.g.
> bbie e:
( where e: is CDROM drive )
or
> bbie bartpe.iso
above command extract the boot sector of cd named image1.bin with 2KB size. Rename it fo btpe.bin
- Use Hex editor to edit btpe.bin , search & replace 'i386' with 'BTPE' . Then copy btpe.bin to C:\mycd .
- Use Hex editor to edit C:\mycd\BTPE\setupldr.bin , search & replace 'i386' with 'BTPE' (all appearance).
5. For ERD Commander CD
- copy folder i386 and all other folders to C:\mycd and rename i386 folder, the name has to consist of 4 characters e.g. ERDC. Do not edit any files in these folders ,then copy files WIN51* to C:\mycd (WIN51,WIN51IP,WIN51IS,WIN51IP.SP1 - if exists)
- extract boot sector of ERD Commander CD. You need Bart's Bootable Image Extractor , run in cmd prompt e.g.
> bbie e:
( where e: is CDROM drive )
or
> bbie ERDC.iso
above command extract the boot sector of cd named image1.bin with 2KB size. Rename it fo erdc.bin
- Use Hex editor to edit erdc.bin , search & replace 'i386' with 'ERDC' . Then copy erdc.bin to C:\mycd .
- Use Hex editor to edit C:\mycd\ERDC\setupldr.bin , search & replace 'i386' with 'ERDC' (all appearance).
6. For Hiren's boot CD
- copy all content of Hiren's boot cd to C:\mycd
- extract boot sector of Hiren's boot CD. You need Bart's Bootable Image Extractor , run in cmd prompt e.g.
> bbie e:
( where e: is CDROM drive )
or
> bbie hiren91.iso
above command extract the boot sector of cd named image1.bin with 1.44MB size. Rename it fo hiren.bin
- Create folder C:\mycd\boot. Then copy hiren.bin to C:\mycd\boot
7. Copy all floppy images to C:\mycd\boot
8. Edit entries in C:\mycd\bcdw\bcdw.ini in the section MenuItems. It should look like this:
[MenuItems]
\btpe.bin ; BartPE
\erdc.bin ; ERD commander 2005
\boot\mt86p.bin ; memtest86+ v1.70
\boot\ntldr.bin ; NTLDR missing Fix
\boot\netboot.bin ; Network boot DOS
\boot\boot98.bin ; Win 98 startup disk
\boot\bootme.bin ; Win ME startup disk
\boot\hiren.bin ; Hiren v9.1
\boot\spinrt.bin ; spinrite
\boot\hddreg.bin ; HDD regenerator
\boot\pccheck.bin ; PC-Check

9. Copy other useful program like Ghost,Partition magic ,etc to your C:\mycd .

10. If you want message "Press any to boot from CD" when booting, please copy file 'bootfix.bin' from i386 folder of Windows XP CDROM to C:\mycd\bcdw .


Making the ISO & Burn it
On this guide I use CDimage/CDimageGUI to make bootable CD iso image.
- for commandline cdimage:
> cdimage.exe" -l"MYCD" -h -j1 -b"D:\mycd\bcdw\loader.bin" -oc -oi -m "D:\mycd" "D:\mycd.iso"
- if you are not familiar with a commandline,you can use CdimageGUI instead.

Test mycd.iso by using cdrw media or emulator(like VMWare / Virtual PC / QEmu ), if it work perfectly ,then burn iso with you favourite program.

*** May the force be with you,Good Luck!!!