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I have an .IMG file that was genereted using DBAN (disk wiping utility).  I would like to be able to PXE boot to it and run it from the network.  Currently we burn it to a CD and boot to CDROM to execute.  Has anybody been able to modify the bootwiz to do this?

Hello BKennedy.

Actually you do not need to modify Bootwiz for that.

Steps 1 you will need to have the images on a share.

Step 2, modify default imaging tools to include the imaging tool that can handle .img extenstions (Example add the tool for 32 bit into C:\Program Files\Altiris\Deployment\Imaging\ghost\x86)

Then refresh the package and re-create you're WinPE

Step 3 you will need to figure out what command line will automaticly deploy the image.

Step 4 finalize all into one run script task, map network share, run image deploy command.

BR

Indrek

We do something similar in our environemnt with GDisk

You can go a couple ways with it.

Either add the GDisk/DBAN/Wiping executable to the PXE Boot image so it is local

Then once machine is pxe booted, just deploy a script task to kick it off.

EX..

X:\GDISK32.EXE /diskwipe /disk:all /custom:3

Or Just PXE boot with existing boot image and run a task that will map a drive to a server and run it from there ( mapping passwords will be in plain text, so make a generic one specifically for this purpose)

EX.

net use I: \\SERVER1\Share /user:domain\uname "password"

I:\GDISK32.EXE /diskwipe /disk:all /custom:3

Here is a command script task I use internaly, which give the service desk person an extra chance to back out before wiping.

@ECHO OFF
net use I: \\SERVER1\Share /user:domain\uname "password"

CLS
REM ### My Company Diskwipe Utility - All Disks
COLOR 17
ECHO ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO -----                      MY Company                              -----
ECHO -----                   Disk Wipe Utility                          -----
ECHO -----                                                              -----
ECHO -----  This program will wipe all drives attached to the computer  -----
ECHO -----                ( IDE, SATA, USB, FLASH )                     -----
ECHO -----                                                              -----
ECHO -----   The data will be completely unrecoverable once started     -----
ECHO -----                                                              -----
ECHO -----  The process will take approx. 1 hour per 8GB of disk space  -----
ECHO ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO.
ECHO.
rem COLOR


SET /P ANSWER= Do you REALLY want to continue with the Disk Wipe (Y/N)?
echo You chose: %ANSWER%
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={y} (goto :yes)
if /i {%ANSWER%}=={yes} (goto :yes)

goto :no

:yes
ECHO ---------------------------------------
ECHO -----  Starting Disk Wipe Utility -----
ECHO ---------------------------------------
"I:\GDISK32.EXE" /diskwipe /disk:all /custom:3
ECHO WIPE COMPLETE - EXITING IN 5 SECONDS
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > nul
COLOR
CLS
exit /B 1

:no
ECHO ---------------------------------------
ECHO -----   Cancelled the operation   -----
ECHO ---------------------------------------

ECHO You have chossen to do nothing - Exiting in 5 seconds
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 1000 > nul
COLOR
CLS
exit /B 2

Hope something similar works put for you.

Thanks,

Clay

This, unfortunately, is not what the OP is looking for. I'm actually trying to figure out how to do the same thing as the OP, except with Memtest86+.

Both Memtest86+ and DBAN are bootable images that run the utility contained within directly. Neither are Windows executables, so trying to go through WinPE to run them would not be applicable - and using Ghost to write them to a physical disk would not be an acceptable option either as both tools are intended to be run "live" from removable media.

What we want to do is to add these bootable images to the PXE Boot Menu that appears when you press F8 while the computer is starting. Is this even possible to do in 7.5 / 7.5 SP1 / 7.6?