CN108776596B - Enhancement method and system based on Windows To Go - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an enhancement method and system based on Windows To Go, which comprises the following steps: extracting a WIM system image file from ISO and ESD system image files; identifying an effective Windows system version type from the WIM system image file; formatting the USB mobile storage device; installing the identified Windows system on the formatted USB mobile storage device; configuring the USB mobile storage device to start the bootstrap information. The invention ensures that the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment can support the Windows To Go function on Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 systems, Windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems when the capacity is less than 32 GB.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs To the field of mobile Windows systems in the field of computers, and particularly relates To a Windows To Go-based enhancement method and system.
Background
Microsoft corporation has promoted a new generation of PC desktop system Windows8 in 2012, Microsoft has promoted a new function called Windows To Go while promoting Windows8, Windows To Go is an enterprise function of Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10, is built in Windows8 enterprise edition, education edition and professional edition, for the computer meeting the Windows8 hardware requirement, Windows To Go can make Windows8, Windows8.1, Windows 10 start and run from USB mobile storage device, it is not necessary To consider the operating system running on the computer. However, the capacity of the USB mobile storage device supported by the Windows To Go is at least 32GB, and the Windows Server version system does not have the function of the Windows To Go and cannot support the Windows7 To start and run from the USB mobile storage device.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of various restrictions of the Windows system on Windows To Go, it is necessary To provide an enhanced method for Windows To Go, which enables the USB mobile storage device To support the Windows To Go function even when the capacity of the USB mobile storage device is smaller than 32 GB; not only can the Windows To Go function be supported on the Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 systems, but also the Windows7 and above systems and the Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems can support the Windows To Go function.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a Windows To Go-based enhancement method is characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:
step 1, extracting WIM system image files from ISO and ESD system image files;
step 2, identifying an effective Windows system version type from the WIM system image file;
step 3, formatting the USB mobile storage device;
step 4, installing the Windows system identified in the step 2 on the formatted USB mobile storage device;
and 5, configuring boot information of the USB mobile storage device.
The step 1 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) the ISO system image file is decomposed into a WIM or ESD system image file through a 7z decompression function module;
(2) the ESD system image file is decrypted to obtain a WIM system image file through wimlib-imagex;
(3) and extracting the decompressed WIM system image file from the ISO system image file, and extracting the decrypted WIM system image file from the ESD system image file.
The step 2 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) reading the number of Windows system images in the WIM system image file through a Windows image API interface WIMGetiImageCount;
(2) reading mirror image information of each Windows system mirror image through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMGetiImageinformation;
(3) windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems in the WIM image file are identified through the image information of the Windows system image.
The step 3 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) judging whether the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment is larger than or equal to 8 GB;
(2) judging whether the USB mobile storage equipment has partitions or not, if not, automatically creating partitions of the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment, and if other partitions exist on the USB, emptying the USB;
(3) judging whether the partition capacity of the USB equipment needing To be provided with the Windows To Go system is larger than or equal To 8 GB;
(4) and calling an NTFS file system module To create an NTFS file system required by Windows To Go at the specified position of the USB, wherein the file system is used for storing Windows system files.
The step 4 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) determining a Windows system version needing to be installed;
(2) determining a partition needing to be installed on the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and (3) installing the selected Windows system version into the NTFS file system created in the step (3) through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMApImage.
The step 5 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) updating the information of the boot configuration file in the Windows system;
(2) updating boot codes of MBR sectors of the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and setting a target partition for installing the Windows system as an active partition.
The invention also provides an enhancement system based on Windows To Go, which is characterized in that: the system comprises a WIM system image file extraction module, a Windows system image management module, a disk read-write module, a file system module and a guide repair module;
the WIM system image file extraction module is used for extracting WIM system image files from ISO system image files and ESD system image files;
the Windows system image management module is responsible for identifying the version type of the Windows system in the Windows system image file, acquiring the number of the systems in the WIM image file, image information of the systems in the WIM and installing Windows from the WIM into the USB equipment;
the disk read-write module is responsible for the read-write operation of the sector;
the file system module is responsible for formatting the target partition into an NTFS partition;
the boot repair module is responsible for ensuring the configuration, reconstruction and correctness of the MBR sector boot code and the boot in the Windows system of the USB mobile storage device.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
compared with the prior art, the method and the system provided by the invention increase and widen the application system range of the Windows To Go function, and not only can support the Windows To Go function on Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 systems, but also can support the Windows To Go function on Windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems. Meanwhile, the memory of the mobile hard disk can be reduced to 8GB, and compared with 32GB in the prior art, the requirement on the memory capacity of the hard disk is greatly reduced.
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The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples, which are intended to illustrate only some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present invention. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, other embodiments used by those skilled in the art without any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
In view of various restrictions of the Windows To Go by the Windows system, a method and a system supporting the capacity of the USB mobile storage device To be less than 32GB and simultaneously supporting the Windows To Go function on Windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems are provided.
The specific method comprises the following steps:
step 1, selecting a partition of a USB mobile storage device needing to install a Windows system;
step 2, selecting a Windows system image file;
step 3, judging whether the file is a WIM system image file, if so, entering step 4, if not, extracting the WIM system image file, then selecting a default Windows system image, and finally entering step 6;
step 4, identifying the type of the Windows system;
step 5, selecting a Windows system type;
step 6, installing the Windows system to the USB mobile storage device;
and 7, updating the boot information of the USB mobile storage device.
In step 3, the WIM system image file is extracted from the ISO and ESD system image files.
In step 4, the effective Windows system version type is identified from the WIM system image file.
Before proceeding to step 6, the USB mobile storage device is formatted.
The specific description of extracting the WIM system image file from the ISO and ESD system image files is as follows:
there are generally three types of Windows system image files: ISO file type, ESD file type, WIM file type. The ISO file type is an international standard optical disc file system format, the ESD file type is actually a file type encrypted by a WIM file type, but only a WIM system image file can obtain information related to an image through a Windows image API interface, so that a required WIM file needs to be extracted from ISO and ESD files in advance, and the method specifically includes the following steps:
(1) the ISO system image file can be decomposed into a WIM or ESD system image file through a 7z decompression function module;
(2) the ESD system image file can be decrypted to obtain a WIM system image file through wimlib-imagex;
identifying valid Windows system version types from the WIM system image file is specified as follows:
in general, a WIM system image file includes multiple versions of Windows system images, each Windows system image has an XML structure to store information of each version of system, the information structure can be acquired through a Windows image API interface, and the version type of the Windows system can be identified through the information structure, and some simple information, such as index, name, description, size, etc., can be acquired through a dis tool carried by the Windows system. The method for identifying the effective Windows system version type from the WIM system image file comprises the following steps:
(1) reading the number of Windows system images in the WIM system image file through a Windows image API interface WIMGetiImageCount;
(2) reading mirror image information of each Windows system mirror image through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMGetiImageinformation, wherein the information comprises information such as system version type, size and the like;
(3) windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems in the WIM image file are identified through Windows system image information.
The formatted USB mobile storage device is specifically described as follows:
installing the Windows system requires an NTFS partition with a large enough space, so that a USB mobile storage device with a large enough size is required, and the Windows system can be completely installed only by generally requiring at least 8GB of the capacity of the USB mobile storage device, where the formatting of the USB mobile storage device includes the following steps:
(1) judging whether the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment is larger than or equal to 8 GB;
(2) judging whether the USB mobile storage equipment has partitions or not, if not, automatically creating partitions of the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment, and if other partitions exist on the USB, emptying the USB;
(3) judging whether the partition capacity of the USB equipment needing To be provided with the Windows To Go system is larger than or equal To 8 GB;
(4) and calling an NTFS file system module To create an NTFS file system required by Windows To Go at the specified position of the USB, wherein the file system is used for storing Windows system files.
The specific description of installing the Windows system to the USB mobile storage device is as follows:
in general, a Windows system image file includes multiple versions of a Windows system, for example, one Windows7 image file may include versions of a home common version, a home advanced version, a professional version, an enterprise version, a flagship version, and the like, so that it is necessary to select one version from the versions identified in the Windows system image file to install the version in the USB mobile storage device, and installing the system in the WIM file in the USB device includes the following steps:
(1) determining a Windows system version needing to be installed;
(2) determining a partition needing to be installed on the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and (3) installing the selected Windows system version into the NTFS file system created in the step (3) through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMApImage.
The specific description of the boot information for configuring the USB mobile storage device is as follows:
windows has two boot modes, one is Legacy mode, another is UEFI mode, Legacy boot mode flow: firstly, executing a boot code in an MBR sector to search a 0x80 activated partition mark in a partition table, then finding the initial position of an active partition through the activated partition mark, then executing the boot code of the DBR of the active partition, and finally loading and starting a system according to information in a boot file; UEFI guiding mode flow: firstly, finding an ESP partition through a GPT partition table, then loading and executing an EFI \ Mircsoft \ Boot \ bootmgfw.efi file under the ESP partition, loading a Boot configuration file BCD and booting a system according To the configuration file, and reconstructing a Windows To Go system Boot flow as follows:
(1) updating the information of the boot configuration file in the Windows system;
(2) updating boot codes of MBR sectors of the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and setting a target partition for installing the Windows system as an active partition.
The invention also provides an enhancement system based on Windows To Go, which comprises the following modules:
(1) WIM system image file extraction module: the function module is mainly responsible for extracting WIM system image files from ISO system image files and ESD system image files;
(2) windows system mirror image management module: the function module is mainly responsible for identifying the version type of the Windows system in the Windows system image file, obtaining the number of the systems in the WIM image file, the image information of the systems in the WIM and installing Windows from the WIM into the USB device;
(3) a disk read-write module: the functional module is mainly responsible for the reading and writing operation of the sector;
(4) a file system module: the module is mainly responsible for formatting the target partition into an NTFS partition;
(5) a guiding and repairing module: the module is mainly responsible for ensuring the configuration, reconstruction and correctness of MBR sector boot codes and boots in Windows systems of the USB mobile storage device.
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1. A Windows To Go-based enhancement method is characterized in that: the method comprises the following steps:
step 1, extracting WIM system image files from ISO and ESD system image files;
step 2, identifying an effective Windows system version type from the WIM system image file;
the step 2 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) reading the number of Windows system images in the WIM system image file through a Windows image API interface WIMGetiImageCount;
(2) reading mirror image information of each Windows system mirror image through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMGetiImageinformation;
(3) identifying Windows7 and above systems and Windows Server 2008R 2 and above Server systems in the WIM image file through image information of the Windows system image;
step 3, formatting the USB mobile storage device;
the step 3 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) judging whether the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment is larger than or equal to 8 GB;
(2) judging whether the USB mobile storage equipment has partitions or not, if not, automatically creating partitions of the capacity of the USB mobile storage equipment, and if other partitions exist on the USB, emptying the USB;
(3) judging whether the partition capacity of the USB equipment needing To be provided with the Windows To Go system is larger than or equal To 8 GB;
(4) calling an NTFS file system module To create an NTFS file system required by Windows To Go at the specified position of the USB, wherein the file system is used for storing Windows system files;
step 4, installing the Windows system identified in the step 2 on the formatted USB mobile storage device;
step 5, configuring USB mobile storage equipment to start guide information;
the step 5 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) updating the information of the boot configuration file in the Windows system;
(2) updating boot codes of MBR sectors of the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and setting a target partition for installing the Windows system as an active partition.
2. The Windows To Go based enhancement method of claim 1, wherein: the step 1 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) the ISO system image file is decomposed into a WIM or ESD system image file through a 7z decompression function module;
(2) the ESD system image file is decrypted to obtain a WIM system image file through wimlib-imagex;
(3) and extracting the decompressed WIM system image file from the ISO system image file, and extracting the decrypted WIM system image file from the ESD system image file.
3. The Windows To Go based enhancement method of claim 1, wherein: the step 4 specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) determining a Windows system version needing to be installed;
(2) determining a partition needing to be installed on the USB mobile storage device;
(3) and (3) installing the selected Windows system version into the NTFS file system created in the step (3) through a Windows mirror image API interface WIMApImage.
4. An enhancement system based on Windows To Go is characterized in that: the system comprises a WIM system image file extraction module, a Windows system image management module, a disk read-write module, a file system module and a guide repair module;
the WIM system image file extraction module is used for extracting WIM system image files from ISO system image files and ESD system image files;
the Windows system image management module is responsible for identifying the version type of the Windows system in the Windows system image file, acquiring the number of the systems in the WIM image file, image information of the systems in the WIM and installing Windows from the WIM into the USB equipment;
the disk read-write module is responsible for the read-write operation of the sector;
the file system module is responsible for formatting the target partition into an NTFS partition;
the boot repair module is responsible for ensuring the configuration, reconstruction and correctness of the MBR sector boot code and the boot in the Windows system of the USB mobile storage device.
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