Windows PE Rescue Environment
The Windows PE rescue environment has the same user interface whether
started from the Windows boot menu
the Windows PE Rescue CD
or the Bart PE Plug-In
*At start-up Windows first loads any additional drivers that you may have
added to the boot directory. The load process continues by searching for
plug-and-play devices and finally displays the following options:
*This does not apply to BartPE.
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Start the Reflect restore wizard. Navigate
to the location of your stored image file and recover saved partitions.
Each partition is restored independently and can be expanded to fill a
larger disk if required. |
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Mount an image or backup file as a drive letter in Windows explorer.
Once a backup or image is mounted you can recover individual files and
folders by copying them to an existing drive using PE Explorer. |
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Windows PE explorer is similar to Windows Explorer. Using this program
you can copy, rename and delete and files on your hard disk. You can also
copy individual backup and image files (see above). |
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Start the regular MS-DOS command window. The main use of this option
is to run the Microsoft 'drvload.exe' command. Drvload is used to add
drivers to Windows PE and has the following simple command syntax:
'drvload.exe <path_to_inf_file>' |
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Configure your network card IP address. |
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*If a system partition is restored to either a different starting position
or partition sequence then it is possible that the
or 'boot.ini' file will be incorrect. Taking this option will rebuild
both these files if necessary. |
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This option will cleanly un-mount all NTFS and FAT partitions before
re-booting. |
*This does not apply to BartPE.
See Also
Create a Bootable Rescue CD
Windows Boot Menu
Adding Drivers
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