(1) USB & IEEE1394 Plug & Play for WinPE
(Ver 2.4 Nov 18, 2024):
- *** USE at your own risk ***
- Works (tested) with XPE 0.99 & XPE 1.02 and WinXP SP1 or SP2
- Only base registry provided, user registry is now extracted via BAT file. This
should make the plugin more compatible with your hardware.
- Reverted inf file to direct copy drivers from %windir%\System32 ... folders to
ensure you have the correct/latest drivers.
- I Have not tried IEEE1394 Network USB / Cards yet - I do
not have a network.
- As from ver 2.4, there is no support for SP1 anymore (I believe it should work
as the bulk of the development was done using SP1).
To check if you have correctly installed
the plugin right click MyComputer icon->Properties->Hardware->Device Manager
and you should see something like this:
Most important, the "Plug and Play Software
Device Enumerator" item should be displayed. Otherwise WinPE cannot enumerate your USB &
IEEE1394 and will not be accessible.
After plugging a few USB & IEEE devices you will see:
This is the MyComputer display of the
devices attached:
I have the following connected:-
1. Sarotech SBP2 IEEE1394 Firewire removable HDD (XP-Backup)
2. PQI generic travelling USB Stick
3. PQI multi-function (7-in-1) card reader with Sony Memory Stick 128Mb and
an IBM Microdrive 1Gb.
And here is the Disk Management services
screen:
Below are some screenshots of my hardware
specific version.
The plugin will not show this on your PC since you
have different hardware from mine. I also have "Standard
Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller" active for USB v2.0 service. You must
have usbehci.sys in for USB v2 support. Originally this did not get
activated in my system due to a bios setting and an old BIOS that did not
properly support USB v2. After flashing latest the BIOS the enhanced driver
appeared. Some of you may have usbuhci.sys instead - I think this is an USB
v1.1 driver. The usbohci.sys is the OpenHCD driver and only supports USB
v1.0.
Funny - I do not understand why my PQI USB Stick is identified as
"OTi Ultra Floppy USB Device"?? Appears that every default WinXP
installation has the OTi Ultra Floppy as a default generic USB stick device.
This is the screen (main screen) to safely remove the USB
/ IEEE1394
devices.
Download latest USB & IEEE1394 Plugin here:
USB1394.zip
After downloading, extract files to a plugin folder. Then
run ExtractMyUSB.bat by double clicking the file. This will extract your
hardware specific registry entries so you have a better chance of getting the
plugin to work. If you use add-on PCI cards to provide usb & ieee1394 support,
then you will require other registry entries - check your vendor's .inf file for
clues.
Note: You should not try to use reg2pe.py (or other
similar) program(s) to convert the .reg file for
use as an .inf in PE. It will cause PE to hang.
Do not forget to "eject" media before removing it!
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Pls do not email me - its best to post questions in WinPE forum.
