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BartPE and UBCD4WIN are bootable CD’s that will let you gain access to your system in the event of windows not booting up. You will need an XP CD to create these discs. Even if you don’t think You’ll ever use these, they are fascinating from the geek tool standpoint and are fun to fool around with.

BartPE can be found here
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows can be found here

Creating and Using BartePE

hi-res 42MB quicktime .mov
lo-res 19MB quicktime .mov

Creating and Using The Ulitmate Boot CD for Windows
Note: this video references the BartPE video, you may want to download both videos
hi-res 19MB quicktime .mov
lo-res 9MB quicktime .mov

Quick Notes On Getting Bart's PE/Ultimate Boot CD For Windows To Boot From A Thumb Drive

  The utility I use to put UBCD4Win on a UFD is called ubcd4winToUSB, which comes with the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows distribution and can be found in C:\UBCD4Win\plugin\!Critical\ubcd4winToUSB . It does not seem to work in Vista, so do your build from a Windows XP SP2/SP3 box. After installing it to my 4GB thumbdrive it kept giving me a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) with the error code 0x0000007B whenever I tried to boot it. I found someone provided a patched version of ntdetect.com (http://www.msfn.org/board/0x0000007B-Blue-Screen-Error-During-Text-t112630.html&p=738009#entry738009 ) that solved my problem and now it boots fine on all my boxes.

BARTPE

Is a lightweight variant of the 32-bit version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, similar to Windows Preinstallation Environment, which can be run from a Live CD or Live USB drive.

A BartPE system image is created using PE Builder, a freeware program created by Bart Lagerweij. It requires a legal copy of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Additional applications can be included in the image using plugins.

BartPE cannot create Windows Vista^[2] or Windows 7 Live DVDs.

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows or UBCD4Win is a bootable recovery CD (live CD) that contains software used for repairing, restoring, and diagnosing many computer problems. It is based on BartPE

Unless you can borrow a XP CD you can't make a BartPE or UBCD4Win ISO (CD/DVD or USB )

 XP-Iso-Builder to try and make an XP cd. 

Problems with DELL Laptops

When the Builder is looking to validate the source files.. it only checks for a few files... it doesn't validate the complete set of files. Since your i386 directory isn't setup like a true CD... it fails on the files that it can't find that you've listed.

Instead of using specific letters such as .sy_ etc... lets use the letter "x" to indicate any other letter since there can be different various files not just .sys etc. A file that ends with .xx_ is a compressed version of the original file. So myfile.xx_ is simply a compressed version of myfile.xxx . The builder is looking for the .xx_ file to uncompress when you get the error because Dell had chosen to use the non-standard method of keeping the files uncompressed.

You may be able to recreate the compressed files using the MS Makecab util available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310618 ... If you try this for each missing file error... I would suggest that you also leave the original file where it is also so it won't affect anything else that Dell may have done in this area. Of course then you still won't be assured of a build that goes without other errors that won't need corrected but it would be a step in that direction. 

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