Stuck in a Windows Jam? Create a bootable Windows XP live CD
Posted in Tech by Dan at 2:15 pm
This post was published 3 years 9 months 15 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.I’m sure as a Windows user, you have pressed the power button on your computer and, POOF, the computer won’t boot. Then follows the obligitory panicing, and tears. Have no fear anymore, Bart is to the rescue!
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!
You may also want to note that it doesen’t look to promising for working with windows XP x64 edition.
With an update on that it is looking better, just a change of directory!
*cough* old *cough*
*cough* still helpful *cough* :P
It is still helpful considering that I had never seen it before!
i used the windows ultimate boot CD whenever i am fixing a unbootable PC
You know, this is ironic. I’ve been searching for a way to make a full up WinXP Install DVD from my bunch of files in i386. Can anybody make a tutorial on how to do this, cause i followed the website, but i put the cd in, restart, and it says “Please insert you Windows XP Professional CD” which is odd, since i have HE.
What is the difference between this and vs ERD Commander?
Hehe, i do prefer my 50 different linux live cd’s for hardware disasters (most derived from HD f*ckupability) but if you gotta have windows, you’ve gotta have windows. it does take a while to build these live cd’s but there are some Iso’s floating around the net available for http download. BTW – Never burn to CDR or DVDR until you know it works – I always fully test them on CD and DVDRWs.
By saying the computer won’t boot, don’t you mean nothing happens when you press the power button. Like the light or power supply doesn’t come on.
I think you mean “and Windows doesn’t load…”