
I would want to have this stored in a separate partition on disk for fastest booting, I have 3 NVMe SSDs and 2 SATA SSDs, all internal. Ideally contained within an ISO, WIM file, or VHD/IMG, which I could boot either as a filedisk or ramdisk with G4D/SVBus. It would essentially act as an onboard recovery solution.

I've gradually come to the conclusion that having a portable, fully deployed and ready-to-use alternate Windows 10 is the way I want to go. I've considered WinPE, BartPE, WinBuilder, probably I missed something along the way. Getting to it, I now need to devise some kind of personalized recovery solution that I can boot in an emergency.

As the old adage goes, anything that can go wrong, eventually will. Without those, you're fucked if and when the shit hits the fan. Anyone that has used an FDE solution in the past, already knows the importance of having a sound backup/recovery strategy. However, I don't want to fully commit to it yet. I just had too much trouble getting a BCVEed Windows 10 to boot within a G4D/SVBus-controlled VHD, and I was never able to get BCVE to stop overwriting GRUB4DOS. Furthermore, it is fully compatible with dualboot scenarios.

And it has a fully portable bootloader that doesn't have to reside in any MBR (ISO boot).
Iso is not smaller after using msmg toolkit full#
After years of development inactivity, it has recently been taken over and updated (some months ago) by a guy named David Xanatos, and now it includes full UEFI/GPT support as well, even Secure Boot if you're willing to use a Linux-based intermediary shim loader. I've recently decided to ditch BestCrypt Volume Encryption and return to my old favorite FDE solution, DiskCryptor.
