Jeremy Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Can anyone tell me of a bootable CD/program I could use to boot into a Windows-like GUI and have access to added software? I tried ERD Commander 2003 from Winternals but I can't seem to add my own stuff. Many thanks,Jeremy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 BartPE + Plugins ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 Yup... BartPE is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 18, 2006 Author Share Posted April 18, 2006 But to add my own stuff, I need to make CAB files?Does BartPE support USB 1.1/2.0 so that I can run anti-spyware programs from my USB stick and update them, without having to make a new ISO everytime updates are out? That's just an unreasonable amount of hassle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jftuga Posted April 18, 2006 Share Posted April 18, 2006 You might consider Ultimate Bood CD 4 Windows. It is much better than Bart PE, as it builds on top of it.http://www.ubcd4win.com/-John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercury_22 Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 Try BootIt™ NG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 I still floppies for boot disks. There are no single drivers that work on all computers (especially for Intel vs AMD), therefore, I abandoned the idea of putting them on CD.Really, there only two boot disks I really use: Norton Ghost 2003 and Partition Magic 8.0.5.Here's what I did to make booting faster. I made a 15 mb FAT partition on my hard drive and put the Ghost.exe and partition magic files on that partition. The floppy boot disk is just the usb, firewire, cd, and mouse drivers. my autoexec.bat points to the hard drive to call ghost or partition magic.Granted it take a little while for floppy to boot but once it's up, it's a zip running ghost and partition magic from hard drive.I've got other DOS utilities on my 15 mb partition.I also made a custom menu on my floppy to load with or without USB, FW, CD drivers. So for a quickers boot, I just choose option 1 to bypass USB, FW, CD drivers if I know I won't need those devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted April 25, 2006 Author Share Posted April 25, 2006 I'm not using pathetically slow obsolete floppies as a boot method. I don't have a floppy drive nor do I have the drivers for it (thanks to nLite). If I want portable storage, I use my OCZ Dual Channel 512 MB USB stick. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fungraphic Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 For meThe reatogo is the best for the XPLive CDhttp://www.reatogo.de/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scubar Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 it has been said ppl have gotten BartPE to boot from usb keys, this should make it much easier to update than having to keep burning cds over and over again, i personally use cds as i dont have a usb key. I would suggest you take a long look at all the help files and manuals for BartPE to see what you want from it. I have personally tried both Ultimate Boot CD 4 Win and Reatogo and both are pretty crap if you want a decent fast PECD, they add an unimaginable amount of rubbish that you will most definately not use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 different people have different ways. i still like the floppy for the quick boot to dos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jftuga Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I've got BartPE (or was it UBCD4Win?) booting off of a 512MB usb key. On one system, the boot process is very slow, but on another system it is faster than booting from CD. So YMMV.-John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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