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So, what is Windows PE used for? With Windows PE, you can: set up your hard drives before installing Windows, install Windows using applications or scripts from a network or a local drive, capture and apply Windows images, modify the Windows operating system when it is not running, set up the automatic recovery tool, recover data from devices that cannot be started, add your own custom shell or GUI to automatically perform these types of tasks. It was originally developed to replace MS-DOS boot disks with a bootable environment that can be loaded from CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, and so on. Windows PE cannot be used as the primary operating system. Mostly, it is used to install, deploy, and repair Windows for desktop editions, including Windows 10, Windows Server, and other Windows operating systems. It is a lightweight operating system with limited features. Windows PE is also known as Windows Preinstallation Environment and WinPE.

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How to Create a Bootable Windows PE Media?.

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WinBuilder, a free application designed to build and customize live CDs based on Windows PE.

Windows PE, the official Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment.

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īartPE cannot create Windows Vista or Windows 7 Live DVDs. Two patches are currently available to correct the known problems, one to replace SETUPREG.HIV and the other to load a standard iastor.sys. The Dell versions include changes to the Windows setup files that can cause the BartPE build process to fail. Plugin programs can nominally be added to the capacity of the BartPE media.īartPE is known to have certain incompatibilities with the Windows XP CDs shipped with most Dell PCs. Since BartPE represents a totally independent operating environment, the most obvious application examples involve backup, restoration, diagnosis and error-correction of systems with malfunctioning primary storage drives. Currently there are a few hundred plugins available in addition to the dozen-odd that are included by default with BartPE. A plugin contains setup information for a specific application, so that it can be included on the media and installed along with Windows at each BartPE boot. Īdditional applications can be included in the BartPE setup through the use of ' plugins'.

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It can built from a Windows XP Pro or Home Edition CD, or from a preinstalled Windows XP version (without a CD). The Bart PE Builder application interprets and condenses files from a Windows setup CD to create the BartPE installation. Since each instance of BartPE is a new installation, the BartPE 'boot' disk needs original Windows Setup files in order to operate.

This also allows them to be run from non-writable media such as a CD-ROM. Thus, neither operating system requires an operational hard drive or network access.

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PE Builder (also known as Bart PE Builder) is the software used to create the BartPE system images.Īs with Windows Preinstallation Environment, BartPE operates by loading system registry files into RAM, and not writing any registry changes back to boot media. It can also be used to scan for and remove rootkits, computer viruses and spyware (that have infected boot files), or to reset a lost administrator password. Īs it often resides on a Live CD or USB drive, BartPE allows a user to boot Windows, even if a hardware or software fault has disabled the installed operating system(s) on the internal hard drive – for instance, to recover files. Additional applications can be included in the image using plugins. It requires a legal copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. Freeware but requires user to have licensed copies of WindowsīartPE (Bart's Preinstalled Environment) is a discontinued tool that customizes Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 into a lightweight environment, similar to Windows Preinstallation Environment, which could be run from a Live CD or Live USB drive.

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