Bart's PE Builder

"Build a BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable CD for PC maintenance."
By SoftCns Editor: 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!PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (â??Windows PEâ??). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft Windows PE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement included in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use.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 or accessing 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 â??clean bootâ??.- Active Directory support.- Have remote control over other machines, using vnc or remote desktop.BartPE vs. Windows PE?- BartPE is not supported by Microsoft. Windows PE is an official Microsoft product.- BartPE has a graphical user interface. Windows PE has a command line interface.- The tools needed to make a BartPE installation are free software. Windows PE is available only to Microsoft OEM users.- BartPE allows unlimited custom plugins. Windows PE has a limited range of plugins options.