Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

Requirements to build:

1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
Supported Windows versions are:
* 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)
* Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
* Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
* Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
2. PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
3. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.

Licensing issues
In order to make a BartPE installation, your must have a properly licensed copy of the operating system. BartPE does not grant users who do not have a proper Windows XP/2003 license the right to use a BartPE installation.

Also, according to the Microsoft EULA for Windows XP/2003, a user may not simultaneously use more installations of these operating systems than the user has license(s) for. This also goes for BartPE. In practice this means that the user may not use, for instance, a single license installation on one computer while simultaneously using a BartPE installation (created using that license) on another computer.

Getting started
This page will help you create your very first BartPE CD. It assumes that you are using Windows XP.

1. Make sure that your system has about 500MB of free disk space!
2. Download the latest PE Builder version (self-installing package) and install it.
3. Start PE Builder (pebuilder.exe). When you start PE Builder for the first time it will ask if you agree with the license agreement.
4. Now PE Builder will ask to search for windows installation files. If you don't have your windows XP setup/installation files on your system you must insert the original Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD at this point.

The files you have at c:\windows are not installation files. They are your already installed files!

Click "yes" to start searching. PE Builder will now search all fixed- and CD-Rom drives for Windows installation files. This will take some time. When more than one valid location is found, a dialog will appear where you can select which location you want to use.
5. At the main PE Builder dialog, select the "Burn to CD/DVD" option. When you are using an erasable medium, make sure that the "AutoErase RW" option is enabled. The "burn using" option should be set to "StarBurn". Select your CD writer device from the Device list.
6. Hit the "build" button. PE Builder will now ask you to create a BartPE directory, answer with "yes".
7. The license for your Microsoft Windows XP product is shown. Read it and agree to it to continue.
8. PE Builder will now start building BartPE. This will take a few minutes.

You will see a lot of files getting copied and/or decompressed, the ISO image build and the data recorded to your CD/DVD writer.

If the data verify was correct and there where no errors reported you can boot the CD/DVD!

Download
Latest version:
Download PE Builder v3.1.10a - self-installing package (3.15MB)
Download PE Builder v3.1.10a - zip package (3.23MB)

Previous version(s):
Download PE Builder v3.1.10 - self-installing package (3.15MB)
Download PE Builder v3.1.10 - zip package (3.23MB)

Download PE Builder v3.1.9 - self-installing package (3.09MB)
Download PE Builder v3.1.9 - zip package (3.12MB)

Download PE Builder v3.1.3 - self-installing package (2.76MB)
Download PE Builder v3.1.3 zip package (2.74MB)