BartPE creates a 'live' version of Windows entirely stored on and booted from a CD/DVD with full Windows GUI and read/write access to a machine's NTFS system.
Looks like a great tool for PC rescue tasks. BartPE http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ The Linux alternative is Knopix. http://www.knoppix.org A brief product description snipped from the BartPE website follows my signature. Malcolm <quote> 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! Goodbye to all the good and bad dos-based NTFS utilities! Now we can boot from a CD-Rom and have full read/write access to NTFS volumes! 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 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. </quote> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
