QUOTE (knoks @ Jan 30 2012, 05:25 PM)

Maybe it would help me if i understand Fuwi's Kicker-CD. How redirects the the CD the boot process to the stick after the driver for the USB stick are loaded?
The main related thread is this one:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21242the method is called either "XP Kansas City Shuffle" or "Fake Signature" method. (with these keywords you may be able to find morethreads/posts discussing it).
It essentially needs a Disk Signature to work, and since only a harddisk-like device has a signature, I thought that maybe it can work with a hard disk emulation CD (which does have a Disk Signature).
Right now the device has:
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"\\DosDevices\\X:"=hex:5c,00,3f,00,3f,00,5c,00,55,00,53,00,42,00,53,00,54,00,\
4f,00,52,00,23,00,43,00,64,00,52,00,6f,00,6d,00,26,00,56,00,65,00,6e,00,5f,\
00,46,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,68,00,26,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,64,00,5f,00,44,00,\
72,00,69,00,76,00,65,00,5f,00,53,00,4d,00,5f,00,55,00,53,00,42,00,32,00,30,\
00,26,00,52,00,65,00,76,00,5f,00,31,00,31,00,30,00,30,00,23,00,41,00,41,00,\
30,00,34,00,30,00,31,00,32,00,37,00,30,00,30,00,30,00,31,00,30,00,33,00,32,\
00,34,00,26,00,30,00,23,00,7b,00,35,00,33,00,66,00,35,00,36,00,33,00,30,00,\
64,00,2d,00,62,00,36,00,62,00,66,00,2d,00,31,00,31,00,64,00,30,00,2d,00,39,\
00,34,00,66,00,32,00,2d,00,30,00,30,00,61,00,30,00,63,00,39,00,31,00,65,00,\
66,00,62,00,38,00,62,00,7d,00
Which "translates" to:
CODE
USBSTOR#CdRom&Ven_Flash&Prod_Drive_SM_USB20&Rev_1100#AA04012700010324&0#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}
Cannot say if it is possible to somehow make a "kicker" for this.
Most probably some info/ideas can be found in this (seemingly UNrelated) project:
http://reboot.pro/3890/which does use hard disk emulation CD, but your mileage may vary.


jaclaz