Bart’s Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
BartPE is Admin’s best friend…
What is BartPE and PE Builder?
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 (800×600) 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!
What is the technical difference between BartPE and Windows PE?
- Target – Microsoft sees Windows PE as an installation platform. Bart sees Windows PE as the next generation rescue platform.
- Start-menu – Bart’s builder gives you a simple, dynamic and powerful start-menu (Nu2Menu, see screenshots). Microsoft’s builder does not give you a start-menu, it uses a command prompt.
- Build from – Bart’s builder can also build from Windows XP Home Edition or from a preinstalled Windows XP version (without CD).
- Plugins – With PE Builder you can easily add applications, drivers or tools using plugins. This makes PE Builder extremely powerful. The end user can even combine plugins from different software vendors into one CD image.
- Network support – PE Builder includes its own network support tools (bartpe/penetcfg) to start TCP/IP and Microsoft Client. The TCP/IP settings like: dynamic/static ip-address, subnet-mask, default gateway, dns-servers computer-name, workgroup can be changed on-the-fly. You can create pre-defined profiles, that you can select. Microsoft Windows PE only supports DHCP or fixed settings using winbom.ini.
Also there is a plugin (NwDskPe) created by Erwin Veermans that loads the Netware Client on BartPE (IP/IPX). - Fileshare – BartPE can start File Sharing support so you can connect to the system through a share.
- VNC – Because of the File Sharing support you can also run UltraVNC.
- Dos support – Bart’s builder has a plugin called “dospe”.
- License – Microsoft Windows PE is only for Enterprise/OEM customers (see previous), BartPE is for everybody!
- 64-Bit – Bart’s builder does not support Windows 64-bit editions.
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 Edition
- Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
- PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
- CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.
Homepage: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
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