Thursday, January 17, 2008

BartPE, the Bootable Windows Environment

Yesterday i posted about the options available to boot Linux in your machine without a full complete installation. One of them is trough a live cd or flash media; Windows also have his own set of options available in this respect, one being WinPE, from Microsoft, and another is BartPE.

BartPE (Bart's Preinstalled Environment) is a Live CD/ Live USB version of the Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

BartPE allows a user to boot Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 from a CD-ROM, DVD or a flash disk, regardless of the condition of the installed operating systems on the internal hard drive. This means that the user can, for instance, recover data from an operating system installation that has failed due to either a software or physical hardware corruption.

It can also be used to scan for and remove rootkits, viruses and spyware (that have infected boot files) and reset a lost administrator password.

A user can create his or her own installation of BartPE using the installation disk of the operating system in question and the program PE Builder, programmed by Bart Lagerweij.

Visit the official website for more information.

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