Name: Harold Caller
I’m using a notebook-PC with single read/burn CD drive. The MS install stuff is on a cd. Should I swap out the original MS cd with a blank while PEbuilder is creating the ISO-image, so it’s ready to burn when the image is finished?
I don’t actually think that it accesses the CD during the ISO building portion of the process, but I’d leave the XP CD in the drive until it’s done. The ISO is stored on your hard drive, and so you can burn it at anytime, even days later.
What I personally would do, is create a directory on you hard drive, XPCD for example, and just copy the contents of the XP CD-ROM to that directory. Then in the Barts PE preferences change the Source: path to where you copied the files to.
For example:
Then you don’t have to worry about using the MS CD at all.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Just a quick one here – the handy thing about copying over the contents of the Windows XP Professional installation CD-ROM (assuming it is that) to a local directory is that you can also use the nLite utility to slipstream in the latest service pack & hot-fixes for that OS but also the device drivers you need from the hardware vendor of the computer your working on, so everything works off the bat when you boot the computer off of the BartPE CD-ROM you’ll be creating.
Just my tuppence worth of extra info there… :-)