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Jenda

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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #15 on: 16 May 2005, 22:19 »
So how good is this BartPE? I mean, how much worse than Windows...?

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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #16 on: 17 May 2005, 21:06 »
BartPE is basically Windows XP stripped down to the bare essentials. You can add all kinds of plugins - like Firefox, to make it a semi-functional desktop, but thats not really it's purpose. It's purpose is to rescue borked OS's.

You can run adaware and virus scan utilities from it to scan hard drives for viruses and spyware and other nasties that would be hard to remove if you were booted up to the OS.

It has networking support, so you can boot up and map to a network drive to dump data off of the hard disks. I've used it a couple of times to fix peoples PCs that were badly infected with adware.

Other usefull thigns you can do, are scandisk, and defrag with dirms.

It really does make a fantasic recue disk. FOr rescuing windows, it's much better than using linux since you get native read/write NTFS support.
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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #17 on: 18 May 2005, 21:02 »
Still it really annoys me a lot that cd/dvd-reader/burner manufacturers are releasing their firmware tools as win32 gui tools. Damn idiots! The binary files from Plextor were just an exception at the Belgium site which will be removed later on. I believe Liteon also doesn't support binary files anymore... Honestly, how hard can it be to release the simple binary file + maybe a DOS flash tool. And if they could put a little more effort, they could release a linux flashing tool, binary and a stripped linux kernel or/and just a linux tool + binary file.

About BartPE... The disc even mounted my memory cards and USB sticks so next time there is no need to add the files on the disc. Though main problem with BartPE is that you need Windows to run it, either native or in Vmware as it won't work in wine (at least with standard wine). I ran it with VMWare. HERE is the site.

Aloone_Jonez

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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #18 on: 18 May 2005, 22:34 »
The reason you need native Windows and not Windows running in VMware is because the program needs direct access to your hardware - something that Linux will under no circumstances allow a Windows program to.
This is not a Windows help forum, however please do feel free to sign up and agree or disagree with our views on Microsoft.

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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #19 on: 18 May 2005, 22:56 »
Quote from: Aloone_Jonez
The reason you need native Windows and not Windows running in VMware is because the program needs direct access to your hardware - something that Linux will under no circumstances allow a Windows program to.


What?

The poster above was talking about BartPE not working in wine, not a flashing tool.
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Aloone_Jonez

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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #20 on: 18 May 2005, 23:14 »
Wasn't he talking about useing BartPE to run a flashing tool?

Sorry I wasn't clear enough this is my point; if he wants to run BartPE to use a flashing tool and runs BartPE in VMware it still won't be any good because VMWare still won't allow you direct access to the hardware so either way you're fucked.
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Re: Windows PE
« Reply #21 on: 19 May 2005, 13:32 »
No, lol. I meant the BartPE program that creates the livecd disc. Not the livecd itself. I think it can be run in wine but it may need some modifications,