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With a WinPE CD I always get the prompt "Press any key to boot to CD/DVD". How can I create a CD that automatically boots to CD without the prompt?

kinokijuf
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kyle
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That behaviour you see is specific to a PE disc running any form of Windows PE. More specifically, it happens if there is a boot sector detected on the hard drive.

An easy way to demonstrate this is to clear any partitions from the hard drive and put in your PE disc - it will boot immediately without prompting.

As for answering your question, I don't believe it is possible.

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Moab's answer is correct. Create the WinPE ISO as you usually would, then mount it and remove the bootfix.bin from the Boot directory. After that, burn it to a cd and you can boot without the prompt.

See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff794558(v=winembedded.60).aspx

Oebele
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WinPE itself contains one "bootfix.bin". When converting WinPE to ISO, that ISO will be having one more "bootfix.bin".

I think when booting through WIMBOOT it will use bootfix.bin inside *.wim file. And when booting through ISO it will use bootfix.bin under "media/boot/bootfix.bin"(this is for 32bit).

I am able to boot without the "press any key prompt" after removing the "bootfix.bin" from WIM file and also from ISO file.

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