Make any of the antivirus bootable DVD/USB into a bootable partition

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a possibility to make any of the antivirus rescue iso's, for example, Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, into a clean partition that is bootable and appearing as an entry alongside Windows 11 -- not as a bootable USB/DVD.
My point is to create a tiny partition and copy one of the ISO (of any antivirus rescue tool) and make it bootable as one would do it on a USB.
Is this possible?

Thank you for reading.

Just plop all the .iso's you need into the viewable partition and you can choose from any of them to boot from. problably the closest solution to what you want. I put gparted, DBAN, and a windows 11 iso onto mine. a bootable recovery tool is a good is a tho, I might get a 16gb drive for that

a clean partition that is bootable and appearing as an entry alongside Windows 11 -- not as a bootable USB/DVD

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@darko85

easy if it is winpe based.
a bit more tricky for linux based.

If you have Eset installed , I have been told it had the option to create bootable winpe media.
So create that and then just extract it onto a partition and add a winpe entry to bcd.
Easy.

I am not sure if Eset still has that option.

Alternatively, create your own winpe that supports 32 bit programs and has intenet connection, then pop in something like this:


it will run fine in winpe and downloads the current definitions onto the ramdisk. So you need enough space set in your winpe, 512mb is plenty.

That winpe can be booted from a separate partition easily enough.

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It is also possible to add a bcd entry pointing at linux . But I dont know precisely how the partition should be formatted or how the linux iso should be extracted onto it.

Thank you, Futurdreamz and SIW2.

I'll just install some antivirus tools onto WINPE, since I decided I see no point in creating additional partitions.