Microsoft Windows-based
Microsoft representatives have described third-party efforts at producing Windows-based Live CDs as “improperly licensed” uses of Windows, unless you use it solely to rescue your own, properly licensed Installation. However, Nu2 Productions believes the use of BartPE is legal provided that one Windows license is purchased for each BartPE CD, and the Windows license is used for nothing else.
- BartPE (Windows XP/2003) – allows the creation of a bootable CD from Windows-install files
- Reatogo-X-PE – based on BartPE
- Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win) – a BartPE based Live CD with lots of recovery/system tools
- VistaPE – a Live CD version for Windows Vista
- WinBuilder (Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista) – allows the creation of a bootable CD from Windows-install files
- Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment
- Windows PE (Windows 7) – the official tool from Microsoft to create a bootable image based on the Windows 7 kernel. It is part of the Windows Automated Installation Kit 3.0.
- Windows PE – Free eScan Rescue Disk
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