[dba-Tech] BartPE

Well I finally rebuilt my server which was not booting but had windows2k3
installed on it.  I was hoping to use the BartPE to manage to edit or
otherwise fix the boot disk.  Having rebuilt my server, suddenly I can build
a BartPE disk on that machine.  The odd part is that even though I am
specifying an I386 for Windows 2003, it displays WindowsXP as the BartPE
boots.

I was also expecting more, not knowing what to expect.  I kind of thought I
was booting into windows and would be able to use it as windows, see the
hard disks, etc.  Not so.  This whole thing is more than I want to learn.
8-(

So off I go searching for a way to image my Windows 2003 install and restore
that image later.  I have a 200g bootable raid 6 partition with Windows 2003
fully installed, including software firewall, SQL Server, Visual Studio,
WinRar etc.  All the stuff that I need to get back up and running in a
hurry.  I have a spare 250g hard disk sitting at the end of a SATA which I
would like to place an image of the disk on, and be able to copy from that
disk back to the raid partition.  I just have to figure out how to do that.


The BartPE MIGHT be the answer, I am not sure.  How to boot and see the raid
drives and the SATA drive is the question, with a program that will copy
that image back to the raid drive C: and allow a boot from that drive C:

I have Acronis TrueImage but it is the "home" which is NOT supposed to be
used on Servers, and they want a cool $600 for the one that will run on
servers.  Yikes.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com