Using Total Commander with Bart's PE Builder

[bob123]

Hello all. I would like to say that Total Commander is a very nice program and has come in handy quite a few times. Thanks for making it shareware!

I do have a problem, but I am unsure that this would be the appropiate place to post, or if you even support the use of your software with Bart's PE Builder.

Please advise whether or not this is the appropiate place to ask questions about the above mentioned use of the software, and whether or not this particular forum is the place to ask the quesiton.

Thanks all.

PS- I did perform a search for 'pe builder' , 'bart' , 'barts' , etc. Those searches returned zero results.

[Gerd K]

You need a link? Try this one:
http://www.nu2.nu/

[bob123]

Thanks for the link Gerd K, but my problem was slightly more complicated. I just wasn't sure if this was the right place to post, or if the author did not support any issues regarding the use of his software with Bart's PE Builder boot cd-rom.

After testing Bart's PE Builder (the boot cd itself) I could not for the life of me figure out how to connect to my FTP server using Total Commander. I would receive an error stating that it couldn't save the settings to 'E:' which in this scenario was my boot cd-rom drive. This is completely understandable since a cd in most circumstances is read-only [at least in my scenario it was].

I did however attempt earlier today [after my orginal post] to 'manually' connect by using the URL connect feature. Worked like a charm!

I just want to say again Great Product! I was able to use Bart's PE Builder boot cd-rom to start networking services, login to my FTP server using MSTSC, create a user account for access, and then use Total Commander to connect and upload files that needed to be recovered from my non-booting NTFS partition. It worked flawlessly.

Best Regards,
Bob

[sqa_wizard]

... error stating that it couldn't save the settings to 'E:' which in this scenario was my boot cd-rom drive...

By default Total Commander tries to save a new FTP connection to the WinDir, which is on CD in your case.

It should be possible to use all existing connections at a prepared file.

Another option is to start Total Commander with setting files on a writable media. (May use a second shortcut for this)
e.g. "E:\TotalCmd\TotalCmd.exe /i=A:\wincmd.ini /F=A:\wcx_ftp.ini"

[Hacker]

bob123,

PS- I did perform a search for 'pe builder' , 'bart' , 'barts' , etc. Those searches returned zero results.

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=14452 - it's the second link when searching for "builder" . No sweat.

You can talk about anything here as long as it's not illegal.

HTH
Roman

[tom*de]

BartPE have also the possibility to copy files to a ramdisk before starting it:

copy all tc-files into \Plugin\total commader\files

and:
wincmd.key
wincmd.ini
TC.CMD
into \Plugin\total commader\


tc.cmd:

@echo off
rem TC.cmd - Script to start TC from RAMDISK (WinPE)
echo TC.CMD: Starting...
setlocal
if "%temp%" == "" goto _err
if exist "%temp%\wincmd\TCw.exe" goto _run
echo TC.CMD: Copying "%~dp0*.*" to "%temp%\wincmd\"
xcopy /s "%~dp0*.*" "%temp%\wincmd\"
:_run
start %temp%\wincmd\totalcmd.exe /i=.\WINCMD.INI /f=.\WCX_FTP.INI
goto _end
:_err
echo.
echo TC.CMD: No temp variable set...
echo TC.CMD: Try adding a ramdrive...
echo.
pause.
:_end
endlocal


My totalcmd.inf looks like that:
; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file
; Created by Bart Lagerweij

[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="Total Commander v6"
Enable=1
Help="totalcmd.htm"

[WinntDirectories]
a="Programs\wincmd",2
b="\",2

[SourceDisksFiles]
wincmd.key=a,,1
wincmd.ini=a,,1
TC.CMD=a,,1
TC.CMD=b,,1

[SourceDisksFolders]
files=a

[Append]
nu2menu.xml, totalcmd_nu2menu.xml