Live Windows Bootable CDs for Sysadmins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 14, 2004 @08:31PM from the Kootwijkerbroek dept.

WhoDaresWins writes "Ever wonder how to make a Knoppix-like live Windows bootable CD (or DVD)? Well its now possible using Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD. It's basically an expansion of the Microsoft's own Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) idea which is a minimal Windows (XP/2K3) based bootable live CD with a command prompt and the ability to run some basic Windows GUI. Bart's PE allows anyone to make a bootable CD using their own Windows XP/2K3 media with Bart's PE Builder. What's more many people have contributed quite a few plugins that allow you to use the BartPE discs as quite a nifty system administration tool and with some work an almost usable quick system."

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This is old... by insmod_ex · 2004-02-14 20:39 · Score: 1, Redundant

Seriously, PE Builder has been flying around for a very long time. Plus you can just download a Windows PE off of many IRC servers. Nonetheless, Windows PE/PE Builder has saved my balls many times. Almost lost my porno on one incident.