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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55wtf is so appealing about putting stories onto 14 pages when you can put them onto 3?
- Kericr, on 10/12/2007, -7/+57Is that an operating system in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
- Dracker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40After following the link, put "print.html" after the last slash, and you get ONE page, with a LOT fewer ads.
This works for all tomshardware articles. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Thats nice, now shut the ***** up :).
- Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26So old -- but useful articles like this get a free pass. A lot of Digg 3.0ers haven't had a chance to check it out yet.
- buzzert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Really good photoshop on that picture of the Windows XP thumbdrive!
- wisedude, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20That's not only conveniant, but very cool!
- apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Well thats great for your uncle... Does he make the software available for free? Can I boot from a compact flash card without getting an IDE converter? Big whoop for your uncle!
- bhowell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15"wtf is so appealing about putting stories onto 14 pages when you can put them onto 3?"
More ads in "prime" locations as you read the story. Look for the print view if they have one. I think Tom's Hardware is wise to the print view loophole and doesn't have a print view that I can find... - JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I love how they say "you'll always have a compatible replacement no further away than your pocket or keychain" as if I would always carry this with me. As if I would expect for Windows to constantly be crashing and having boot errors.
- Kericr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Yeah I have to say that I used to rail on old articles making it to digg. Truth is though, useful information sometimes needs a refresh. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
- poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9lol at the who-the-*****-cares-ness of it all!
- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Great idea! I have another one; shut the ***** up. :)
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"wtf is so appealing about putting stories onto 14 pages when you can put them onto 3? "
A whopping 8 sentences on the first page.....
And besides this isn't really a windows instll. It is a watered down perverted install that is only usable in an emergency. - apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Not only that, but this article covers a lot of ground the previous submissions simply link the the bartPE homepage. So this is actually very helpful even though I've known about bartPE since the first digg frontpage story.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17Old, AND inaccurate.
It's a "Pre-install Environment", thus the "PE." It is NOT a fully functioning copy of Windows. I never liked BartPE as much as Hiren's Boot CD - poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10that's why no one bothers with Tom's anymore. Anandtech still has the print button, FTW.
- albator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6You have to work on PC with a bios that support booting from USB, it mean that any MB made before like 2003 wont do the job.
- mikevickrocks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6That HP Tool mentioned on the second page has long been dead (404 Error). Along time ago, I uploaded it. Here's the direct download link.
http://www.ipodwizard.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=8274&d=1146429146 - YourTechSupport, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I know. I keep wanting looking for a link to purchase it!
Too bad MS wouldn't let it happen in a million years. - miltont, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I agree. There's so much info on digg sometimes, that it takes me a few cycles to get to all the articles I want to read. Even on days where work is slow, and I spend most of it on digg, I 'll still miss good stuff. I'll give Bart's a try...heard mix reviews on it.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5And what do you do Johnny?
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I can thoroughly understand your concerns, however reading through the instructions on Tom's Hardware site any "tech" worth their weight in salt can handle this. Besides, it's a USB drive, it's not like they are loading a the full OS on a machine... Hopefully they remembered to get their data off of it before formatting it.
- fmarkos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Any ready torrent image of this, we can just copy to a usb stick? No time/patience to do all these steps myself. :-)
- GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nevermind - i fig'd it out. (stupid oversight on my part)
But the guide could be rewritten to make it a *bit* easier to read. - winstonpr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Isn't that the whole idea about digg? Even if information is old, if enough people found it interesting it will resurface to inform and entertain the up until know unknowing. It not about newsvalue, but relevance and interest for me.
- usbserial, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hey, how about instead of saying "no digg", you just ignore this and don't comment? Wouldn't that be the day?
- Mattman723, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey I wonder what the ETA is on my Microsoft Flash Drive I was promised all those months ago...
- magstheaxe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, I'm pretty new to digg and _I_ hadn't seen it.
- Jakkaru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i really dont understand how something so old and something thats been posted on digg SO many times can get so many diggs.
ah well. - GrendelT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah, I'm baffled with it right now, got a hal.dll error on first attempt.
Now I'm trying the ramdisk fix and the Server2k3-SP1 won't extract because I'm not running that OS.
The story has *horrible* typos/grammar/etc., the links are a bit out of date, but a good general guide overall. digg++ - TylerDurden0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Perverted... really?
- georgelogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yes this is quite old, and a duplicate, but it is good information to make a tool for data recovery if your Windows installation dies on you.
- mcgowanbl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is actually really hard to do. Just making the Bootable BartPe CD with a working virus/Spyware removal, cdburn, and HD imaging app that actually works will probably take more then a day or two on your first try.
- dfg356rthfghgok, on 01/28/2009, -0/+0I agree to synchronize,ccleaner is a good free regisry cleaner,but you can find good one at http://www.bestregcleaner.com
- Radimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You too??
- drwiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really, really wish this were the future of Windows. The operating system would be completely isolated from all the cruft and add-ons that get layered on top of it.
The base OS would be supplied in ROM, and any patches or drivers would go into flash. There could be two physical switches on the unit. One to temporarily unprotect the flash area for updates, and another to bypass or even format the flash area and boot clean if there's a problem.
If Microsoft did something like that, and then enforced at the kernel level which individual applications could read/write to which directories (meaning no more littering files all over the disk), Windows would be so much more pleasant to work with. - Linkage155, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Very cool/usefull, and the art looks really nice :)
- lyzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is most likely due to problems with the boot sector. Google it :)
- SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm the ruler of the entire universe and have done that and pretty much everything else .. so yeah.
- lyzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can't believe that no one had mentioned that the virus could just hop to the pen drive's OS. If any machine has been compromised trying to bring it back up with the same OS is not the best solution.
- njbraun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Nice and all, but I'll wait till they build in multiprocessor support :/
- Radimus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1there are working ghost images as torrents. Search for bartpe, minipe, winpe, etc
- jtoso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Could never get this to work right. Boot from USB.. Invalid disk or no operating system found. IT'S RIGHT THERE! DAMN IT! Someone should put up a working version as a torrent :)
- lyzz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1With bart and ROM you are correct. The article is about a flash drive which is not ROM.
- DelSolMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wonder if I can use a portable harddrive and put a bunch of games on it.
- cyberpear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For recovery purposes, it is probably best to have a read-only media, but for everyday use, it is great to have an editable media.
- Radimus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1not really, the most common method of a USB bootable bartPE is an ISO mounted in RAM. Therefore the OS is only in ram and the virii couldn't directly infect the ISO itself.
The most common BartPE implementation is via CD which is obviously readonly. -
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