wrote:
Hi Paul,

I received an email reply from AOMEI. What I want is available for
$49.**. This is for 32/64 bit PCs, WinXP on up.

I am going to order it.

Regards, John


UPDATE:

I downloaded "PAssist_setup.exe" after I paid $54.95 (tax added) and
installed it on my WinXP Pro 32 bit PC with NTFS formatted HD.

To create the ISO file, I used the Windows Automatic Installation
Kit (WA3AIK) that I downloaded and burned a DVD, thanks to Paul.
However, before I was able to install AIK, I had to install MSXML 6.0
first. I downloaded MSXML 6.0 after I did a Google search.

I was able to create the 32 bit version ISO file, and later I burned a
CD from the ISO file. I tested the bootable CD on a WinXP Pro 32 bit laptop
with NTFS HD and 512MB ram AOK.

John

The ingredients it needs under WinXP are MSXML6, .NET 2 (but 3.5 would do),
and WAIK kit. (Those kits come as WAIK and WADK, with the WADK perhaps
being for Vista or later.) It's possible you already added .NET 2 to make
your video card Control Panel work. MSXML6 also gets incidentally added
for some other WinXP era programs that deal with XML files.

When WinPE boots, it seems to copy the runtime to RAM, so a 512MB machine
is probably about as small as you'd want to go. This is unlike some other
"live" medias where the setup is constantly reading little bits off the CD.
I would expect trouble or be a bit concerned if the machine RAM
was below about 350MB or so.

Paul