Run Data Recovery Wizard or Partition Table Doctor from a boot CD-ROM by using Winpe.

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What is Windows PE

Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) is a powerful replacement for the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system in your deployment processes, test and diagnostic tools development, and system recovery processes. Windows PE is a minimal Windows system that provides limited services based on the Windows XP Professional and the Windows Server 2003 kernels. It also provides the minimal set of features required to run Windows Setup, access and install operating systems from the network, script basic repetitive tasks, and validate hardware.

WinPE does not require a hard drive to boot; it can run solely from a CD drive using the memory for dynamic data. This feature makes WinPE appealing for data recovery and system maintenance purposes.

Your IT professionals can use Windows PE with both desktops and servers to work faster and smarter. Windows PE helps the IT professionals in your organization be better able to deploy and support Windows desktops and servers in the following ways:

Automation. The deployment process becomes more streamlined because your administrators are better able to automate the process by using the Windows PE platform and toolsets.
Toolsets. The maintenance and troubleshooting tools are far more powerful in Windows PE than in MS-DOS. Windows PE provides the ability to run multiple tools at the same time using the built-in multithreading and multitasking support. This capability saves both time and resources that would otherwise be required to validate and test the hardware and software images.
Deployment. IT Professionals no longer have to spend time building and maintaining MS-DOS-bootable disks for deployment preparation. Windows PE provides the ability to boot from a variety of media types, including USB Flash Drive (UFD), DVD, CD, and the network, using the PXE remote-boot ROMs and Remote Install servers. Using Windows PE will make your IT professionals' deployment and recovery efforts less time-consuming and more productive. Windows PE can support the multithreading and multitasking so that you can run multi-tools. This function is designed for saving the time of testing hard ware and mirroring the software. It also can run the bath files/Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) script/ Windows Host script/ HTML application/ Microsoft Active X object. Windows PE provides a temporary space basing on the RAM. Hence, the Windows PE can run the applications which must write the temporary files from RAM to the hard disk (even there is an unusable hard disk).

Windows Preinstallation Environment supports the Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

However, in the market, there isn't the Windows Preinstallation Environment for sale. You can use software named BartPE to produce the WinPE.

How to use BartPE to produce the WinPE

The BartPE didn't contain the any records of WinPE or Windows XP. If you want to run the BartPE to produce the WinPE, you need to execute the original installation CD of Windows Xp. Hence, the BartPE didn't infract the copyright of Microsoft. The BartPE is just use the installation CD of Window XP and Windows Server 2003 to complete the Pre-installation environment.

The user can download the BartPE at the website. And then just need follow the step by step instruction. You can also create a rescue CD of BartPE. This CD will give you a great help when you Windows XP/2003 crashed.

The BartPE gives the entire Win32 environment to the user. Hence, you can use the CD to do the job in network、you can see the graphical interfaces and do various jobs of FAT/NTFS/CDFS without installing the operating system in the hard disk.

Further more, we believe you don't need the DOS bootable floppy any more if you have the BartPE CD.

How to let the Data Recovery Wizard boot from CD via using the BartPE

Here is a step by step instruction of creating a bootable CD of Data Recovery Wizard via using BartPE:

You should download the BartPE package of Data Recovery Wizard firstly. This file named drw.cab( and ptd.cab for Partition Table Doctor). You can find it in our website.
Run PE Builder.
Please click the "Plugins" button.
In the pop-up interface, please click "Add" button
Choose the drw.cab which you downloaded. And then press "Open" button.
Please find the drw directory in the plugins folder of the PE Builder installation directory. And then, please enter the drw directory.
Please copy the entire files in the installation directory of Recovery-Soft Data Recovery Wizard to the drw directory of PE Builder. The path is: the installation directory of PE Builder\plugins\drw.
Please close the "Plugins" window.
Press the "..." button in the "Source" which you will see in the main interface of BartPE. And then please select the directory where you stored the Windows installation files.
Please select the Create ISO image option in Media output which you will see in the main interface. Please click the "..." button, choose a directory which you will store the output files of ISO.
At last, you will return the main interface. At this moment, please click the "Build" button. After a few minutes later, the software will prompt you that the process has been completed. That means you create a Data Recovery Wizard bootable CD successfully.

PE Builder is copyrighted by Bart Lagerweij.
Windows XP and WinPE are copyrighted by Microsoft.
Data Recovery Wizard, Partition Table Doctor are copyrighted by

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