CurlingSteve Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 The BartPE Bootable XP CD is a great tool to have around.Makes it easier to recover when (not if) your PC won't boot.And you can do a drag and drop style backup of virtually your entire drive without those annoying "Access Denied" aborts during a copy.About the only thing it won't copy (and I'm still experimenting) is the boot sector itself.Since it will read and write to NTFS volumes you can get a lot of data off when the hard drive starts going "south".And you can install it on your hard drive to have a second OS to boot to if XP hiccups.With a little (well sometimes a lot) work you can even add your favorite applications to the CD.I guess you can tell I like it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Besttechie Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Thanks CurlingSteve!That sounds a lot better then what I use to recommend. Which was....Ultimate Boot CDAlthough maybe it is a little different but not by much. I think having both of those programs would be a great thing to have just in case.B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CurlingSteve Posted August 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 I played around with that (it's still here somewhere).But when I found that the BartPE will even copy the stored Registry hives and access restore points, I was sold.And with plug-ins available for things like Ghost, AdAware,and McAfee (command-line) Anti Virus how can you go wrong? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cowsgonemadd3 Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Thats good! I might just try it out.... Right now im in the middle of formatting this pc right now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted August 27, 2004 Report Share Posted August 27, 2004 Thanks CurlingSteve!That sounds a lot better then what I use to recommend. Which was....Ultimate Boot CDAlthough maybe it is a little different but not by much. I think having both of those programs would be a great thing to have just in case.B hi B i bought the ultimate bootdisk and im not sure if it is the ultimate or not here where i live it cost $12.so im on a learning curve on how to use the thing.i bought it because i wanted to use a boot for things other than windows and i refer to mandrake or linux.but in the menu i see there is also boots for dos win9x mac ect i havent been through the menu yet.but i could do with a few pointers. marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nerelda Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Thanks! I'll look into it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 I used it today to retrieve a xp product key from a system with a bad mobo. After I installed the new motherboard, I was able to boot it and use bartpe to grab the key. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 since my last post to this thread i have the bart pe disk and it is a great disk it has many things i havent used yet it has spybot which you can access fron the the disk as well as up date it also has hijack this and info how to use it i tried one applii had this hdd partition which i had to wipe the bartpe cd has several wipe programs and this particular program wiped all partition on the hddit is a very good cd tho ime an amateur many of you who are compt wise will love it marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 I played around with that (it's still here somewhere).But when I found that the BartPE will even copy the stored Registry hives and access restore points, I was sold.And with plug-ins available for things like Ghost, AdAware,and McAfee (command-line) Anti Virus how can you go wrong?Thats interesting. I have used the key finder plugin, which reads the registry hive. What are you doing that you need to access the restore points? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CurlingSteve Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 I was fooling around with RAM-disks at one point to use them for temp file storage, etc.But the RAM disks appeared to the system as a hard drive, which System Restore insisted on including in its snapshot.When the RAM-disk was cleared and rebuilt, say on a reboot, the Restore Point(s) were rendered invalid and unusable.I used BartPE to copy off valid Restore Point sets so I could reload them after fooling around. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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