http://www.osnews.com/story/17189/Creating_a_Bootable_WinPE_2_0_USB_Key Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:50:07 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?210073 http://osnews.com/thread?210073 Knoppix for free and have a "very powerful troubleshooting, imaging, and data recovery tool" Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bolomkxxviii) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210085 http://osnews.com/thread?210085 or if you really must use windows try BartPE with PE2USB. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (batdan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210095 http://osnews.com/thread?210095 it's probably a spelling mistake in the article summary. But it's still funny, seeing as we're talking Windows here Edited 2007-02-07 13:17 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkelve) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210128 http://osnews.com/thread?210128 Or we could stick with windows to run windows applications. Not everyone wants to use linux. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210136 http://osnews.com/thread?210136 Or we could stick with windows to run windows applications. Not everyone wants to use linux.

True, true. It's probably best to know both for when one is lacking, such as drivers for 3com cards in Windows, or as you mentioned running Windows apps.

My coworker recently used Knoppix to download 3com drivers to a freshly installed Windows machine. Stupid 3com... Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MattPie) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210169 http://osnews.com/thread?210169 If I am not mistaken,BartPE is no longer being maintained...........still useable though.
Good read. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Iron) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210189 http://osnews.com/thread?210189 or you could create a usb key that would dualboot a linux distro and windows PE.

I'd actually find that pretty useful. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210212 http://osnews.com/thread?210212 can be installed to and booted from a USB key. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (knightrider) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210238 http://osnews.com/thread?210238 I created a couple of bartcd's, but if its no longer being maintained what are people using in its place? The only other windows based cd I can think of is UBCD for windows. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210314 http://osnews.com/thread?210314 to Bart's PE at this point.

It's basically Bart's PE with a lot of enhancements.

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

It's an essential tool for PC techs. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (richardstevenhack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210323 http://osnews.com/thread?210323 Microsoft has NOT "wisely offered this to the masses".

If I'm not mistaken, according to the EULA, you cannot use Windows PE for any other purpose than its original purpose - which isn't what is covered here.

When Bart originally used Microsoft's PE for his boot CD, Microsoft got on his case about it and he had to modify what he was doing.

Technically, even UBCD4W is in violation of the Windows XP EULA. However, it's such an essential tool for PC tech support that most people ignore that. After all, you're not really running Windows XP per se. However, Microsoft probably does not see it that way.

Nonetheless, Microsoft has not to my knowledge made any particular fuss about it, since it obviously works to their benefit to have techs able to repair the POS more easily. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (richardstevenhack) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210405 http://osnews.com/thread?210405 Do any of the Linux repair CDs out there reliably write to NTFS or allow you to connect to a remote registry file? Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (konkat) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210454 http://osnews.com/thread?210454 or you could create a usb key that would dualboot a linux distro and windows PE.

I'd actually find that pretty useful.
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This has got to be one of the smartest things I've read on a message board in a loooong time. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (the__dude) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210538 http://osnews.com/thread?210538 You can always use ReaToGo (http://www.reatogo.de/), it seems quite active (see news page: http://www.reatogo.de/Reatogo_Project_News.htm) and I used it several times to create a PE disk.Edited 2007-02-08 12:51 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tistje) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210608 http://osnews.com/thread?210608 at least there are enough ways to edit the iso image and rewrite to a CD if there is no preboiled version for you.

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download

comes to mind. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (linux-it) Comments