Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD: "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 (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!"
I have been using various methods over the years to recover, debug, crack, and fix Windows systems, and I think that Bart has created a very useful tool that all admins should learn to use before they are under the gun to get a sytem back into operation. Combine this Windows Live-CD with your in-house tools like Ghost, Mcafee/Trend/SymantecAV, Winternals/Sysinternals, etc., and you will be the hero of the day. -Bryan
