Any BartPE Fan Out There?
Hello Experts,
I've been using BartPE for years with no problems at all, from imaging/troubleshooting Windows (XP, 7, 2003, 2008) on clients to servers hardware... and to whatever things you can imagine. However, I am starting to experience some problems with new generations of server hardware that only support Windows Server 2008 drivers, and hence, I can't boot from BartPE to get access to certain disc volumes on RAID config that only support Windows 2008 Server drivers. Is there a way to create BartPE disc with Windows Server 2008 OS so that I can utilize the Windows Server 2008 drivers? Please advise. Thanks.
I've been using BartPE for years with no problems at all, from imaging/troubleshooting Windows (XP, 7, 2003, 2008) on clients to servers hardware... and to whatever things you can imagine. However, I am starting to experience some problems with new generations of server hardware that only support Windows Server 2008 drivers, and hence, I can't boot from BartPE to get access to certain disc volumes on RAID config that only support Windows 2008 Server drivers. Is there a way to create BartPE disc with Windows Server 2008 OS so that I can utilize the Windows Server 2008 drivers? Please advise. Thanks.
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@rindi - thanks. I don't recall why I didn't pick UBCD4Win years ago, but I'll give it a trial now to see if it does what I need. I'll get back to you soon. Thanks.
I don't expect it to solve the current problems you have, as it is basically the same as Bart, and as far as I know there haven't been any updates for a long time.
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I think it's built on the core of BartPE, so as long as I can't pull Windows Server 2008 OS in to build the drivers for it, I'm still stuck. hhmmm....
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@rindi & noxcho - Thank you both for your advice. I've decided to let go of BartPE for the new systems, and turn to WinPE (WAIK). Not a GUI friendly, but I've been able to add/customize some utils that I often use successfully so far. Next step is adding various device drivers to it, but I don't think it'll be hard. Thanks, again.
Windows 7 has Windows PE, and with that you can also build booting CD's, but using the new kernel and then you can also use the new drivers. Check the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) with which you can such a CD (downloadable from the m$ site).
An alternative that can often help if the UBCD4Win has issues is the PartedMagic LiveCD. It works very often where the UBCD4Win doesn't, is free (you don't need Windows to build it), and includes many tools for diagnostics, cloning/imaging, partition manipulation etc., and you don't need to go through all the reading etc to build a Windows PE CD via WAIK (I haven't done that myself yet either):
http://partedmagic.com