Thursday, February 19, 2004

Windows XP Bootable CD

Below is a link to "Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD" (via. We had this harddisk clicking and ticking away in one of our notebooks. It really was on the brink of falling apart. The employee wasn't able to work with it anymore, and we neither could access the disk anymore. So some important files on the C were inaccessible now. I remembered having read this a couple of days ago, but only bookmarked the link for later use. Now, it has proven it's worth. Really amazing, everything went OK the first time. Download a 2MB Builder program, use it to make an XP ISO, burn the image to CD, and off we went. The only things I had to do was tell it to use DHCP, and enter the domain name. Wonderful thingie, we'll certainly use this one more in the future.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/