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newly updated usb switchblade drive thingy

Apr 6, 2008 Tech

So I decided to revamp my usb switchblade after seeing this guide, I wanted to intergrate it with my current setup. so after doing that, it was actually pretty easy as I already had a WinPE source on my drive. (plus its a really easy guide to follow anyways), anyways, i decided to redo the switchblade part of my pen drive, mostly because it was a bit buggy and didnt work sometimes because it was a really “hacked” implementation, so ive spent pretty much most of today creating a new implementation of it now, gone are the drive vars as they were uneeded and just caused unnessesary complications and made it less reliable. ive added so new icons for the u3 drive and the flash partition. All this is been done on my new 2GB titanium cruzer which is a lot more solid than the flimsy plastic 4gb one i had, i went for 2gb because FAT has a limitation of 2GB so i kept having filesystem problems with my 4gb, plus it had an ugly orange light when you plugged it in, this new one has a sexy new blue light which looks much better and matches the lights in my case too :p

The actual switchblade itself has also had options added to it, the safety option is now a built in option instead of an added hack. And truecrypt actually runs properly now.

So now what i have is the following:

A 2GB Titanium cruzer pendrive, formatted to FAT, multibooting with the following options:

Windows PE 2.0
Win PE
Memtest
DBAN
ntpasswd
FreeDOS
Ranish Partition Manager

The bootup process has been re-done too, its now based on grub and gives me a menu (like above).

The switchbladenow runs more reliably due to it using VB scripting instead of setting a system variable to point back to itself, running a .exe to run a .vb to run a .bat file, lol yes, it really was that bad :p but anyways, its a lot better now, i should write a guide sometime, although you can get a jist of how i did it by following the guide linked at the start of the post.

offtopic: Also i just noticed how, unfinished, the new wordpress admin / create post page is, it looks really bare with just random blocks of colour, and boxes that dont look like they’ve been positioned right, i thought it was IE at first but its the same in firefox, maybe im just used to seeing borders around things.

Tags: bartpe, ce, drive, grub, hack, menu, pe, switchblade, tool, u3, usb, windows