Did you know that a boot disk can be used to correct some problems with XP if you can't
get it to start up. Hi, I'm Dan Afonso, from Afonso Consulting and Enfold IT, and this
is how to create a boot disk for Windows XP. We're going to be using the BartPE method.
BartPE is a boot disk creator developed by a guy named Bart that allows you to boot your
machine into XP in a useful way, so you don't just get a limited command prompt. Now, we're
going to start off by going over to the BartPE site. The link will be next to the video.
So here we go, going to go down to download. You're going to click on the download link,
and pick, a pick a mirror close to you. I've already downloaded it, so we're going to just
skip this step here. When you run it it's going to give you the usual warning when you
download something from the Internet, select your language. And since I'm not going to
keep this I'm just going to select all the defaults, and I don't really mind; sure, create
a desktop icon. And here we go, okay it's runnin'. Now it comes up; it's going to ask
you to first confirm the license agreement, which says you can't do anything bad with
this software. It's not allowed by the XP license agreement, and that you know, this
is Bart's software and you can't screw around with it. That's fine; want to agree to it.
Search for the windows installation files? No, I don't think so. I'm just going to point
it at my CD Rom, which already has the Windows XP in there. The custom is if we're want to
add anything custom to this installation; any stuff you want to be able to have, so
if you need a terminal program or somethin' like that this is where you'd put it in. The
output file, fine, I'm going to use the default. Now, for the output you can either do an ISO
file, which you can burn a CD with later, or you can just burn the CD/DVD. And if you
choose to burn you can you know, erase the DRW, you can have it eject, that sort of thing.
I'm just going to create an ISO file, so I'm going to click build. It says Hey, that directory
doesn't exist. No problem; go ahead and make it. Make sure you agree with Windows XP's
licensing agreement, so don't be handing this out on the Internet. I agree and there it
goes. In a few minutes it'll spit out a fully functional ISO file that you can now burn
a CD from and boot something else. Now, I'm doing this in virtual, so I'm just going to
boot up the file from this, I'm just going to boot up the computer from this ISO file
directly. All right, so to show how this works now I am just loading this CD into a virtual
CD drive on a virtual machine. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to use my Windows
XP Professional image, and now I'm just going to start to fire up with yet, with the BartPE
disk inserted. So, I'm going to fire it up. Want to get our boot screen. Thank you VMware.
And now, instead of going into Windows here it is going into BartPE.
Now, we can start up network support. Just use the HCP; that's fine. And with network
support we can now grab files, move them off. We can get data off the machine if we need
to, or look at stuff if there's an issue. Your programs are available here; at least
a small subset of them. You've got a few options. You can take a look, you can partition your
disk, you can check your disk. You can add a ram disk if you need a little bit of temporary
display, and you can change a few things around just to get it to run. Also, you can run anything
from the command prompt, and if you put additional programs onto the disk you can now run those
as well. So, this is how you run a, this is how you create a boot disk for Windows XP
using BartPE. I'm Dan Afonso. Thank you. Have a good day.