Part 3 - Create a bootable usb 'light windows' a.k.a Bart PE

This is the third and last part of booting from usb flash stick.

In this part I will describe how to create a bootable usb 'light windows' a.k.a Bart PE.

Requirements:

1. For this you will need an usb flash stick. I myself tried a No name usb 2GB and it worked fine.

2. You will also need the following files:

-pebuilder3110a (official site download)

-Windows 2003 Server SP1 or srsp1 (two extracted files from the win 2003 sp1)

How-to:

1. Save the files from above to a place on your disk for example C:\



2. Extract the pebuilder3110a.zip to the folder c:\pebuilder3110a

3. In folder c:\pebuilder3110a create a new folder named: srsp1 (this will be used later)

4. Open a command-prompt and type in the following command to extract the files of Windows
2003 sp1:

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe -x



5. A message box will appear asking you to select a directory for extraction, choose:

C:\win2003sp1



6. Copy the file setupldr.bin

-from C:\win2003sp1\i386

-to C:\pebuilder3110a\srsp1

7. Expand and copy ramdisk.sys by running the command:

expand -r C:\win2003sp1\i386\ramdisk.sy_ C:\pebuilder3110a\srsp1



8. Go to the folder: C:\pebuilder3110a Start BartPE by double clicking pebuilder.exe







9. A windows will appear. Select source to your windows xp cd (in my case F: was my cd letter):



10. If your Windows XP cd has Service Pack 2 included then you need to enable a plugin.
Click on the Plugins button and enable "RpcSS needs to launch DComLaunch Service First - SP2 only" in the list.



11. Click close when done.

12. Click Build, to start building the image that will be used for your usb.

13. If asked to create directory, click Yes.



14. Click Close when done.



15. Plug in your usb stick if you haven't already done that.

16.After building is finished go to command-prompt and type in:

pe2usb -f G: (where G: is my usb drive letter)



17. Type in YES when asked to. This will start creation of your bootable usb stick.



18. When done close the command-prompt window and take out your usb stick. You should now be able to boot from your usb stick.

This concludes the final part, Part 3 - Create a bootable usb 'light windows' a.k.a Bart PE.
By this I have now described three ways of using a usb flash stick booting. I hope you have had good use of this reading.