![]() Download and install EasyBCD (I used version 2.3).Now navigate to the folder you created in Part II, Step 1 above, and paste all of the Yumi files and folders into that folder.Open your USB flash drive and select all the files and folders and click copy:.Create a folder named “Gandalf Rescue PE” on the root of one of your drives (it can be C but preferably another hard drive you have on your system).You should be able to do this even if you can’t get into your system again by using the bootable USB drive you created in Part I above. I highly recommend backing up your BCD File and if there are any problems, restore your old BCD. WARNING: DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!! In particular, but not without disregarding other things that can go wrong, messing with your BCD files can lead to Blue Screens of death like “Inaccessible Boot Drive” errors. – basically anything Yumi lists in its Step 2) just run Yumi again, select the distro in Step 2 in the Yumi program, and download and install the distro. To add additional distributions to the USB flash drive (anything from countless Linux distros, bootable Dos systems, to other PE systems, etc.If it doesn’t see the troubleshooting in the FAQ and How-To’s on the Yumi page. Close the program and verify that it will boot. When it is done it should give you a success message. It will take quite a while as it will extract the various programs from the ISO and install them on your USB drive. Under step 3 select the Gandalf ISO you downloaded. Under Step 2, select “Single Windows PE” option (located near the bottom under Windows PE Builds). Under Yumi’s Step 1, select the USB drive you are dedicating to Yumi. Download the latest Gandalf distribution (I believe there are several, the larger the size the more programs ) Gandalf’s Windows PE.Make sure you have at least an 8 GB USB Flash thumb drive that you are ok with reformatting and destroying all data on.Part I Installing Gandalf PE on a Multiboot Yumi USB This tutorial was done using Windows 10 but the steps should be similar for Windows 7 and 8. So if your Windows system goes south you have a very useful toolkit available as an option on the boot screen without even needing your USB stick. In addition it will show you how to install Gandalf’s Win10 PE on your boot menu. This tutorial will show you how to build a multi-boot USB stick that will add Gandalf’s Win10 PE distro but is also capable of adding additional operating systems on the same stick. Having this available on a bootable USB stick if anything goes wrong on your windows system is SUPER handy and has saved me countless times. This “Redstone” distribution packs about 4GB of very useful programs and a fully functional super smooth version of Windows 10 into one ISO that can be installed on and booted from a USB drive. At the moment, one of the most handy Windows PE distributions is Gandalf’s Win10 PE Redstone.
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