RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
Have you tried EasyBoot http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/index.html Works great for me. I have a boot DVD that has: WinPE; ERD Commander; Ghost 2003; Bart; etc. all on one disc. Easy to make, nice menu to chose what you want.. good stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 11:04 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] WinPE for recovery At 11:05 PM 7/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed: *laugh* yep, I carry one like that too. Pretty much, I've boiled down the DVD version pretty exclusive for server recovery; I've never had better luck at recovering a damaged AD or recovering a broken Exchange Store.. genious stuff. Both McAfee Symantec make a Recovery Disk that is based on WinPE technology as is ERD Commander 2k3. MSFT has a new version of WinPE while it's more configurable than it's predecessor it still doesn't rival what we can do with PEBuilder the various plugins that are available. I've seen some weird multi shell setups all on one CD but I just want one that will do it all in a GUI that I'm familiar with. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
At 07:07 AM 7/16/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Have you tried EasyBoot http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/index.html Works great for me. I have a boot DVD that has: WinPE; ERD Commander; Ghost 2003; Bart; etc. all on one disc. Easy to make, nice menu to chose what you want.. good stuff. The forum says that not everything on the bartpe iso that is loaded works so I was turned off by it several months ago haven't tried it. I suppose one can't have too many tools ;-) Yet, I find the ones that I have on my XpPe compilation takes care of 99.9% of the situations that I get into. I have Ghost 8 Corp ERD Commander within my XpPe so I don't really need them separated but it would be neat to have Knoppix on the same disk. I see that there is a nice plugin for EZ Boot but right now I'm broke don't have the extra $29.95 to spare but as soon as I do I shall make the investment to prepare for that I downloaded the EZ Boot plugin as well as some other related utils. I wonder how EZ Boot will work with my XpPe compilations which are BartPE plus Shepya's XPE plugin extremely customized explorer shell but I hope to find out soon. To tell you the truth I've not done much in the way of development research on my XpPe stuff since the 1st of the year due to some health financial issues but hopefully some of that will be rectified soon. I had actually taken my XpPe.com website down because I couldn't afford it then just a couple of days later I got a check from Google Ads for click throughs in the last 5 mo that was enough to pay for my website for a whole year so I quickly reposted the XpPe.com website. Hey that XpPe got me a week in Albuquerque last year so I definitely want to keep the site up for as long as I can the money from the Sandia Nat'l Labs job built my AMD64 3800+ raid 0 w/ 74g Raptors ATI X800 system. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
I use EasyBoot with a Bartpe+XPPE (Nu2 as well, I seem to still have some issues making some plugins feed into XPPE, so I keep the NU2 shell as well). I do integrate in Ghost8, PQ, etc. but I often find that having an EasyBoot disc which will boot just straight to the Ghost floppy on it (which may be all I need) comes in handy. My normal build is EasyBoot with Bart + 20 different install and utility floppies (ie, Install 98SE; ME; etc. floppies; Ghost floppy; TroubleShooter; Memtest; etc.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 8:57 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] WinPE for recovery At 07:07 AM 7/16/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Have you tried EasyBoot http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/index.html Works great for me. I have a boot DVD that has: WinPE; ERD Commander; Ghost 2003; Bart; etc. all on one disc. Easy to make, nice menu to chose what you want.. good stuff. The forum says that not everything on the bartpe iso that is loaded works so I was turned off by it several months ago haven't tried it. I suppose one can't have too many tools ;-) Yet, I find the ones that I have on my XpPe compilation takes care of 99.9% of the situations that I get into. I have Ghost 8 Corp ERD Commander within my XpPe so I don't really need them separated but it would be neat to have Knoppix on the same disk. I see that there is a nice plugin for EZ Boot but right now I'm broke don't have the extra $29.95 to spare but as soon as I do I shall make the investment to prepare for that I downloaded the EZ Boot plugin as well as some other related utils. I wonder how EZ Boot will work with my XpPe compilations which are BartPE plus Shepya's XPE plugin extremely customized explorer shell but I hope to find out soon. To tell you the truth I've not done much in the way of development research on my XpPe stuff since the 1st of the year due to some health financial issues but hopefully some of that will be rectified soon. I had actually taken my XpPe.com website down because I couldn't afford it then just a couple of days later I got a check from Google Ads for click throughs in the last 5 mo that was enough to pay for my website for a whole year so I quickly reposted the XpPe.com website. Hey that XpPe got me a week in Albuquerque last year so I definitely want to keep the site up for as long as I can the money from the Sandia Nat'l Labs job built my AMD64 3800+ raid 0 w/ 74g Raptors ATI X800 system. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
At 10:41 AM 7/16/2005, Chris Reeves typed: I use EasyBoot with a Bartpe+XPPE (Nu2 as well, I seem to still have some issues making some plugins feed into XPPE, so I keep the NU2 shell as well). I'll be glad to assist you with any issues you have with those plugins. I do integrate in Ghost8, PQ, etc. but I often find that having an EasyBoot disc which will boot just straight to the Ghost floppy on it (which may be all I need) comes in handy. My normal build is EasyBoot with Bart + 20 different install and utility floppies (ie, Install 98SE; ME; etc. floppies; Ghost floppy; TroubleShooter; Memtest; etc.) Now I'll have to dig up that $29 bucks shortly. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
[H] WinPE for recovery
Well my machine was affected by a power outage, not the CPU and board per say but the keyboard and mouse got screwed up which in turn corrupted the %root%\windows\system32\config file. I can not boot into XP and I can not get into safe mode or safe mode command prompt as it always balks at that config file. Tried booting to the XP CD and doing the recovery console and running the system restore file but it will not run there. There was no automated system recovery floppy made (ya I know) and I do not have a back up done ( again ya ya I know) We had a discussion about this a little while back and I think Wayne said that he had a way to get to a restore point with the PE Cd Or does anyone have any other things to try? I installed another install but I can not get to the other one to fix it that I can find. Running system restore in safe mode is MS's answer but I can not get there. Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [H] WinPE for recovery
At 08:07 PM 7/15/2005, Mark Dodge typed: We had a discussion about this a little while back and I think Wayne said that he had a way to get to a restore point with the PE Cd I was saying that I don't use restore points even when a system is running correctly that with my XpPe compilations I usually can recover a system from anything. There was a version of a bug that would turn off the top 10 AV apps by name so that included their respective websites if you booted the system from the HD at all the bug was active even in safe mode. The only way I could clean that particular bug was with my XpPe Cd since the HD is never booted. I'd have the system cleaned in 15 min or less while other shops would charge literally hundreds restoring the system while losing the data w/o telling the customer that the data was gone. Stuff like this just made me look like the ultimate geek. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
At 10:33 PM 7/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Yep. Bart has been a good friend. Thanks to all the plugin repositories, it's possible to build bart into almost anything. Hell, I finally screwed around and built Bart on a bootable DVD just so I could fit all the tools I wanted recently :) I've got a disk that way too but unfortunately most of my clients don't have DVD drives yet. What I want is to be able to do it on a thumb drive but haven't gotten the bugs worked out of that yet so the one that I have on a 180meg 3.5 CDRW that I slip into my shirt pocket will have to do for those unexpected emergencies. You know the ones. Hey Wayne, while you're here could you look at my computer it won't boot. I knew there was a reason I got invited to my wife's 3rd cousin twice removed cousin's birthday party she's only 3 I had never seen her before in my life. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
RE: [H] WinPE for recovery
*laugh* yep, I carry one like that too. Pretty much, I've boiled down the DVD version pretty exclusive for server recovery; I've never had better luck at recovering a damaged AD or recovering a broken Exchange Store.. genious stuff. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 9:52 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: RE: [H] WinPE for recovery At 10:33 PM 7/15/2005, Chris Reeves typed: Yep. Bart has been a good friend. Thanks to all the plugin repositories, it's possible to build bart into almost anything. Hell, I finally screwed around and built Bart on a bootable DVD just so I could fit all the tools I wanted recently :) I've got a disk that way too but unfortunately most of my clients don't have DVD drives yet. What I want is to be able to do it on a thumb drive but haven't gotten the bugs worked out of that yet so the one that I have on a 180meg 3.5 CDRW that I slip into my shirt pocket will have to do for those unexpected emergencies. You know the ones. Hey Wayne, while you're here could you look at my computer it won't boot. I knew there was a reason I got invited to my wife's 3rd cousin twice removed cousin's birthday party she's only 3 I had never seen her before in my life. ---+-- a Windows Xp based Diagnostic Recovery CD http://www.xppe.com/
Re: [H] WinPE for recovery
You are in my address book it should go thru Mark Dodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Original Message] From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: 7/15/2005 7:42:27 PM Subject: Re: [H] WinPE for recovery At 10:08 PM 7/15/2005, Mark Dodge typed: I need one to be able to go to a previous point before the config file was corrupted. How do I do that with the XpPe CD?? Off list would be fine I tried writing you off list but your Earthlink software wouldn't let me thru. FWIW I have no such white list of acceptable senders. ;-) --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
