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08/02/07 3:08 PM

#79586 RE: ralphkaz #79582

My apologies to Ralph....

For not thinking out of the box and considering loading a stripped down version of XP to only boot\recover a NTFS operating system. I guess being in the business as long as I have, I've never had the need to see if I could build a boot\XP system on a 256MB thumb drive or had the need for it when it takes just about two minutes to swap the drive into a system with a working and stable OS already installed with virus protection.

This is an example of it can be done but very impractical reasoning for doing it!
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08/02/07 4:01 PM

#79589 RE: ralphkaz #79582

In all honesty, Bart PE is a stripped down/modified version
of the Windows Pre-Instatalltion Environment (PE) that MS
provides to OEMs. The PE disks have a lot of drivers that can
be removed if the hardware support (things like hard drive
RAID controllers, misc sound and video cards, etc) is not
needed.

Regards.