 Number 256 - September 2004 |
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| Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) Bootable Live Windows CD-DVD | |
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by Carl Tenning" | |
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Club President Ray Mills asked for a review of the subject program to create a bootable CD--as a possible candidate for library disk-of-the-month. After successfully dowloading and running PEBUILDER.EXE (from pebuilder3032.zip), it creates an ISO image file "pebuilder.iso". I then used Roxio Easy CD Creator to burn a bootable CD using the "No Emulation" option from the file "pebuilder.iso". The CD directory looks like this: Volume in drive H is 040520_1641 Volume Serial Number is DF04-04CB Directory of H:\ 05/20/2004 04:43 PM 2,048 BOOTCAT.BIN 05/20/2004 04:36 PM 161,492,992 BOOTIMG.BIN 2 File(s) 161,495,040 bytes 0 Dir(s) 0 bytes free This CD, unfortunately, would not boot, even though the ROM BIOS was set to boot from my ATAPI CD-ROM. Then I looked again at the BartPE directory where the file "pebuilder.iso" was created. Under file "Type" it listed the pebuilder.iso file as "Easy CD Creator Image File". Double clicking on this file opened Easy CD Creator in a new mode that burned a CD with the following directory: |
Volume in drive H is BartPE Volume Serial Number is C18F-0DBC Directory of H:\ 09/22/2003 03:54 PM 46 AUTORUN.INF 05/21/2004 09:10 AM 05/21/2004 09:10 AM 05/21/2004 09:10 AM 0 WIN51IC 05/21/2004 09:10 AM 0 WIN51IC.SP1 05/21/2003 05:05 PM 167 WINBOM.INI 4 File(s) 213 bytes 2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free This CD was bootable and brought up the Bart-PE operating system. BartPE, however, did not seem too useful. Although it would display the hard drive directory, it would not run any of my applications except WordPad, Calculator and Paint. One quirk was that the computer could not be shut down or restarted unless the boot CD was in the CD-ROM drive. Another annoying thing was that while in Windows XP, the "Start" button in the lower left hand corner is covered up by a BartPE "GO" button, although this can be removed by selecting the "Exit" option. Editor's Note:> The following summary article was taken from the August 15th Microsoft Watch on the Internet. If you are planning to install Windows XP SP2 soon, or if you have already done so, you should read about what may await you when some of your applications will no longer work--and waht you can do about it. For more specific details go to www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1636077,00.asp |
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Number 256 - September 2004
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