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[[Windows Vista]] or [[Windows Preinstallation Environment|Windows PE]] 2.0 boot sequence includes boot.sdi file, which contains Part BLOB for empty [[NTFS]] volume and Table-of-Contents slot for [[Windows Imaging Format|WIM]] image, which is stored actually not inside the SDI, but in separate on-disk file.
 
== SDI Featuresfeatures ==
=== SDI Driverdriver ===
SDI files can be mounted as virtual disk drives and assigned a drive letter if an SDI driver is available to allow this. A SDI driver is a type of storage driver and is commonly used with [[Windows_XP_editions#Embedded_editions|Windows XP Embedded]].
 
=== SDI Managementmanagement ===
Microsoft provides a tool called the "SDI File Manager" (sdimgr.exe) which can be used for the purpose of manipulating SDI files. Some of the tasks which this tool facilitates are:
 
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* The verification of an existing SDI image.
 
=== SDI Loaderloader ===
The mechanism which allows for the creation, addition and removal of virtual disk drives. SDI Loader and Driver work with Disk BLOB.