UBCD4Win Plugins

[Sylvander]

1. Got the UBCD4Win (http://www.ubcd4win.com/)->download (http://www.ubcd4win.com/downloads.htm), made the bootable CD and it worked OK.
EXCEPT...
...That the display of the GUI is low quality on my PC.
Apparently they haven't included lots of display drivers at this time [2008 Oct27]; an update beta is due out soon and that may include these.

2. Browsed through the various PE plug-ins available here (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/plugins/)...

3. Ended up at the Runtime Software page of available plug-ins including GetDataBack for both NTFS and FAT (http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm).

4. Followed the instructions in the above web page [item 3] to incorporate the plug-ins, and it worked 1st time. :)

5. But I'd like to modify the setup slightly as follows:
Once into the UBCD4Win environment, the shortcuts for running the programs are positioned directly on the "Programs" menu.
I'd like them to be more correctly positioned down the "Programs\File\Recovery" folder branch to be grouped with all the other recovery programs.

6. I have the idea that this can be done by altering the appropriate XML file [for GDB for FAT in this case] as shown below...
<!-- Nu2Menu entry for GetDataBack for FAT -->
<NU2MENU>
<MENU ID="Programs">
<MITEM TYPE="POPUP" MENUID="File Management">File Management</MITEM>
</MENU>
<MENU ID="File Management">
<MITEM TYPE="POPUP" MENUID="Recovery">Recovery</MITEM>
</MENU>
<MENU ID="Recovery">
<MITEM TYPE="ITEM" DISABLED="@Not(@FileExists(@GetProgramDrive()\programs\gdb\g db.exe))" CMD="RUN" FUNC="@GetProgramDrive()\programs\gdb\gdb.exe">GetDataBack for FAT</MITEM>
</MENU>
</NU2MENU>

...But suspect more may be needed, or else this isn't quite correct.
Concerned that something may cause the program to no longer function.

7. Can anyone keep me right?

[Sylvander]

Couldn't wait any longer for possible answers, so I went ahead and re-built the ISO file and re-burned the CD-RW disk.

And it WORKED! :D :cool:

The shortcuts are now in the "Programs->File Management->Recovery" sub-menu, and when I click the shortcuts, the program runs OK and seems to be functioning well.