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====== Adding AoE boot support to Microsoft Windows ======

First download the latest WinAoE package from [www.winaoe.org] and extract all files to a directory.

Then go to:

Control Panel -> Add Hardware

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"Next"

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Wait a few seconds to minutes

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"Yes, I have already connected the hardware"

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"Add a new hardware device"

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"Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced)"

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"SCSI and RAID controllers"

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"Have Disk..."

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Select "Browse...", browse to the bin directory from the unpacked WinAoE directory and press ok.

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"Next"

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"Next"

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"Continue Anyway"

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"Finish"

You are now done with installing the WinAoE driver.
You should be able to run the "aoe" utility in a command prompt to get general aoe mount/unmount and scan functionality.

Next steps make the disk ready for booting over SAN.

First go to:

Control Panel -> System, and select the "Hardware" tab.

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"Device Manager"

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press the + in front of "Network adapters" and select the network adapter you will be booting over.Rightclick on that one and choose "Properties"

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In the Properties screen go to the tab "Details" and choose "Service" in the pulldown menu.
Note the service name for the next step.

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Open regedit (Start -> Run -> "regedit") and browse to the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services".
There browse to the key which you found in the last step (the "Service" of the network adapter)

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Double click the "Start" key on the left panel, change the Value data to 0 and press Ok.

You are now done with installing WinAoE with boot support.

  * [[sanboot:transfer|Transfer the Microsoft Windows disk image to your AoE target]]

Trace: • oremanj • usbwithstorage • aoebootprepdebianetch • contributing • winpe • nikhilcrao • srp_install

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