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title: A BartPE and Ghost image disk link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/a-bartpe-and-ghost-image-disk/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 178 created: 2010/03/19 04:29:24 created_gmt: 2010/03/19 04:29:24 comment_status: open post_name: a-bartpe-and-ghost-image-disk status: publish post_type: post

A BartPE and Ghost image disk

This article will cover the building of a bootable BartPE disk that includes Symantec’s Ghost utility and a .gho image file. The specific system in question is my company issue Lenovo Thinkpad T61.

BartPE a/k/a Bart’s Preinstalled Environment is a Windows XP/2003 Preinstallation Environment “for the rest of us”. While Win PE is only licensed to big institutional users, BartPE is freely available to anyone with a licensed copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.

The prompts provided by pebuilder mostly self-explainatory, so I won’t go into detail on how to use it. A couple of important points though: 1) When using pebuilder to create your disk or .iso file, be sure to include a copy of the drivers for any device not originally supported by the standard Windows XP O/S distribution disk; 2) BartPE works best with Win XP SP2, so if your Win XP CD is the original release or SP1 you’ll need to integrate SP2 into it. Here is a useful link to the English language help file by Bart.

My first time out with BartPE, I was surprised to find out that the shipping drivers on the XP disk did not support the Intel on-board ethernet card that comes with the T61. The lack of support for SATA drives was expected, since SATA did not become really popular until long after XP was released. Both sets of drivers were available from Lenovo and got copied into the pebuilder3110a/Drivers/Net and Drivers/SCSIAdapter.

Integrating an original release WinXP or WinXP with SP1 used to require a bit of manual work, but the latest edition of pebuilder will prompt for the locations of the XP CD files and SP2 to do the integration for you.

[The command you used to have to run was something like:

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe /integrate c:winxp /o /n

where c:winxp contained a copy of the distribution disk contents (”i386”).]

On my custom BartPE DVD I’ve included a ghost32 program folder and a T61 folder to hold the 3 Gb Ghost image file (actually a .gho and a .ghs extension file). Before running pebuilder I copied these under pebuilder3110a/bartpe.