Just for the record:
1) There is NO known way in the world, setting aside tarots and crystal balls, to determine from the info Mandy posted which version of Bart PE it is, not even approximately, however "recent" (meaning since 2003) history of BartPE starts at 3.0.0 :
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/changes.txtThere were however a WinPE v1.5 and a WinPE v1.6 before current WinPE 2.0 (Vista based), but if the label saus BartPE it should actually be BartPE
2)
QUOTE (paxamime)
Microsoft has some issues with Bart PE being used for commercial usage.
The above is a generic and apodictical nonsense.
Microsoft has NO issues over the using of BartPE for Personal or Commercial usage
if the corresponding XP or server 2003 licenses are legal and valid and if there is NO concurrent usage of the SAME licensed OS.
See this:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/#licensing3) What Mandy wants to do is perfectly possible (and legal, within the provisions of the license terms above) with BartPE, UBCD4WIN, Winbuilder AND WinPE 1.5/1.6/2.0.
Funny enough, licensing of WinPE 1.x has been for years "reserved" to Microsoft partners and OEM and only recently became publicly available, under the presumption that a "normal" customer building his own system is a OEM of sorts:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=10315http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56488@Mandy
The real problem seems to me that it is NOT a wizard type procedure in which you press "Next" a number of times and you have your CD working as you want it, nor something that can be explained in a few lines post.
It involves understanding the basics of the innards of a PE build, then proceed by trial and error until you get what you want....
...you will need to search, read and understand a number of posts, here on msfn.org, on 911CD forum and possibly on boot-land.net before being able to even start a build.
Since you want to be able to eject bootCD and insert another one, what you are looking for is RAMDISK or SDI/VDK booting , but as said you have a long path before you.
Maybe, just maybe the easiest projects for newbies (no offence intended
) like you would be the ones based on Winbuilder, which however is still in Beta stage:
VistaPE:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/VistaPE-f51.html or PicoXP/NativeEx:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/NativeEx-and-LiveXP-f52.htmlBoth "standard" BartPE and WinPE have been developed as "bare" Pre-installation Environments or emergency recovery, and, while being without "bells and whistles" need some work to add features, if you need/want a more "XP like" bootCD, Reatogo:
http://www.reatogo.de/REATOGO.htmor UBCD4WIN:
http://www.ubcd4win.com/are better and they are more "mature" than the projects on boot-land.net, which on the other hand, have the advantage that, being newish and as said experimental, might provide better support....
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