File Size : 2.75 MB Version : 3.1.3 Author : Bart Lagerweij
Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD, or Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ("WinPE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft WinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement included in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use.
The PE Builder program (pebuilder.exe) runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE. It does not run on Windows NT4/ME/9x. To avoid any confusion, the bootable CD generated by PE Builder should be called by its nickname "BartPE"!
Here are a few things that are possible with PE and are not possible with any type of dos-based boot disk, even when using network support and ntfsdos: Accessing very large (-/+2TB) NTFS volumes or accessing volumes that are not seen by the BIOS, like some fibre channel disks.Very reliable scanning and cleaning of viruses on NTFS volumes using a "clean boot".Active Directory support.Have remote control over other machines, using vnc or remote desktop.
Requirements to build:
The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
Supported Windows versions are:Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)Windows Server 2003, Web Edition Windows Server 2003, Standard EditionWindows Server 2003, Enterprise EditionPE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD. |
