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A comment on Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64. Parent comment

Re:Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 by mappu on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:59PM (#21228875)
No, not any more - the PE licensing changed to only allow this if the PE image is created by the same user. Tools like Macrium now download the WADK SDK and generate an image at runtime.

Distributing prebuilt images like this violates the current PE license AFAICT.

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Re:Hiren’s BootCD Based on Windows 10 PE X64 by vulpessarl on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:17PM (#21228999)
Because of licensing issues like the above: I've a lighter version of the program like this (also based on Windows 10 PE) - called "MiniNT" (https://github.com/VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-Tools), and is fully open source, including the scripts to build the ISO (and other images) from scratch. Is supported in both 32 and 64 Bit editions. The 64 bit edition also can execute 32 Bit executables. It also can boot from USB, CD-ROM as well PXE Network.
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