BartPE & USB


Table of Contents

Creating a Windows XP/Server2003 bootable flash drive 
What will you need 
Basic Installation Instructions 
Booting the flash drive 
Resources 
Installing Windows XP from USB thumbdrive 
How to boot BOINCpe/BartPE from a USB flash drive or USB HDD 
Step #1: Configure BOINCpe/BartPE 
Step #2: Prepare your USB drive 
Step #3: Boot the new host using the USB drive 
Credits 
BOINCpe: Live-CD for BOINC 

Creating a Windows XP/Server2003 bootable flash drive 

http://pheatt.emporia.edu/projects/bootable/BootableXPFlash.pdf

By Scotty Dennis

What will you need 

Flash drive 256MB+ (I used a 512MB Lexar JumpDrive)

  • One of the following Windows installation CD's:

    • Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
    • Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher) (I used with Service Pack 2)
    • Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
    • Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
    • Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
  • PE Builder v3.1.10a self installing package - found here http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/download/
  • PeToUSB v3.0.0.7.zip - found here http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb
  • A Motherboard that can boot off USB

Basic Installation Instructions 

  1. Install PE Builder (use default installation options)
  2. Insert your Windows Installation CD into your CD Drive
  3. Open PE Builder
  4. Under Builder set "Source: (path to windows installation files)" to your CD drive
  5. Make sure "Output: (c:\pebuilder3110a\BartPE)" is set to "BartPE"
  6. Set "Media Output" to "None"
  7. Click "Build" and the files will be built (this may take awhile)
  8. Exit BartPE
  9. Extract PeToUSB3.0.0.7
  10. Open PeToUSB.exe
  11. Set "Destination Drive:" to "USB Removable"
  12. Find your USB disk in the pull down menu
  13. Check "Enable Disk Format", "Quick Format"
  14. Set "Source Path To Built BartPE/WinPE Files:" to "C:\pebuilder3110a\BartPE"
  15. Check "Enable File Copy" and choose "Overwrite Always" on the drop down menu
  16. Click start (okay the messages and off it goes…. also may take a while)
  17. There you go you now have a bootable version of windows on a flash drive.

Booting the flash drive 

  1. Plug flash drive in USB slot
  2. Start computer
  3. Enter BIOS
  4. Set your boot order so that the USB boots first, before your hard drives, CD-ROMs and Floppy Drives
  5. And it should into BartPE

Resources 

Visit http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ for more information on BartPE Visit http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb for more information on