Comments on: FREE: BartPE – A Windows PE-based rescue platform

By: Vister

Vister — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:01:48 +0000

Mini XP Gold USB Flash Boot

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TQ7LC42Z
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BFD19BNG

By: Lancelot

Lancelot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:23:52 +0000

Since I cant find anything about LiveXP on 4sysops I feel I need to write sth and best place seems to me here .

LiveXP is the most flexible explorer based PE 1x project.
It is quite alive (for now last update 3 days ago).
You can use xpsp2, xpsp3, 2k3sp1, 2k3sp2 source cds to build. Try with your language source cd (ex: xpspX.German), You will get surprised to see how things well organised for multilanguage source support .

Besides main goal of being easy to use RescueCD, with the existant optionality, LiveXP can be used as a multimedia, virus fighter,…. PE too . There are various options.
A complete LiveXP build Create an ISO file (for now) with 247MB size which have many free and helpful utilities that suits the main goal. Rest of the freespace on cd/dvd…. can be used with enableing existant scripts (some requires users providing commercial applications with license), or other scripts available on net.

There are too many things to write about LiveXP. One should join the adventure and see why LiveXP is the most flexible and easy to use project .

For basic usage just download, extract it to a folder, doubleclick winbuilder.exe and click BigBlue Play button.

Here is LiveXP page,
You can download a packed file here:
http://winbuilder.net/download.php?view.35
(updated today)

Here is LiveXP topic,
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=52

Here is boot-land tutorial section which also includes valuable tutorials about LiveXP
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=31
ex:
Amalux’s great LiveXP-Bootsdi Tutorial:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4111
How to get complete LiveXP Tutorial:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6910

Hoping to see a blog for LiveXP on 4sysops soon. Keep good work.

By: Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:36:08 +0000

Claus – Would you be willing to share your version of the Windows 7 disk?

By: al duke

al duke — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:31:01 +0000

Can anyone tell me how to repair windows with this tool. I have new mobo, cpu and gpu but just one ide and i cant use hd and cdrom at the same time so im trying to boot and repair from usb flash. I booted with bartpe, but it doesnt give me an option to reapir or install windows, just some basic stuff. Tnx

By: Michael Pietroforte

Michael Pietroforte — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:45:47 +0000

Thanks a lot for these very useful comments. I probably will check out some of the other tools mentioned.

By: Richard Niemeier

Richard Niemeier — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:41:38 +0000

Yes, Bart PE is the grandfather of free boot cd’s with a GUI. I would say thank you. I too preferrer the UBCD4WIN but am also aware that many other similiar versions and communities have sprung out of the intitial Bart PE.
Some of the best places to get a look at all the different types is
http://www.boot-land.net
http://www.911cd.net/forums/
http://www.ubcd4win.com

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:37:36 +0000

We’ve been using Bart’s for years.. and still are. However, I’m happy to report that I brought in a consultant last week who sat down with me and untangled the MDT, WAIK, WDS knots. We’re now capable of booting to the network and restoring images via these tools. It’s an exciting process to explore and I’m not embarrassed about my earlier confusion (there are a lot of moving parts in there).

Feels like I have caught up and I’m ready to tackle Windows 7 deployment with powertools! Horay!

By: MarkG

MarkG — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:45:28 +0000

While BARTPE is no longer being supported, Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows uses BARTPE as its base (the UBCD4Win developer licensed BART’s technology). From the website: UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD that contains software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. I especially like the anti-spyware/virus tools. You build the disk from the latest XP CD you have. I use XP Service Pack 3 so I don’t run into driver issues. It also automatically includes a large selection of wired Ethernet drivers and you can add a selection of wireless drivers too.

http://ubcd4win.com/

By: Claus Valca

Claus Valca — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:02:59 +0000

Greetings Michael,

I used BartPE for quite a long time. However it seemed to have stalled in the development for quite some time. I never had any BartPE building issues and made many of them, but the Win PE 1.0 license was very restrictive; each PE build was tied to a single XP license.

I then jumped over to VistaPE project which is based on the Win PE 2.0 (Vista). Like BartPE, it can take a while to get the “cooking” method for building down. Once you do, it is awesomely slick. And there are none of the Microsoft licensing restrictions like under 1.0. While you can do an expanded build if you have acces to a Vista DVD, you can just as easily use the WAIK’s to build a very reliable and flexible VistaPE build.

Driver support (with a few USB device exceptions) is very good; particularly for newer systems.

It is really cool and I haven’t missed BartPE since.

I’ve even cobbled together a very successful build of Win PE 3.0 using the Windows 7 WAIK with some VistaPE foundational stuff. Super-slick! It’s highly addictive once you get the hang of it.

VistaPE
http://vistape.net/

I’ve done some VistaPE building guides on my blog, but a web-search will uncover a very large selection of others as well.

Yep, VistaPE all the way and haven’t looked back to the tired Win PE 1.0 since. (And I agree with you, the few times I’ve reached for my ERD Commander disk it either BSOD’s the newer systems or it just cludges along.)

That said, credit still belongs with Bart for his groundbreaking work in BartPE.

Cheers!

Claus V.