Years ago I tried the Bart Builder for XP, but with a pre-installed XP and no installation discs it took for ever trying to search for valid XP installation files, and I finished up after many hours with build errors/warnings and ISOs that failed to boot.

I very recently had Windows 7 Ultimate installed as a second boot (via easyBCD) and W7 installation Discs so hope to have a much better experience with the PE Builder.

I have many years experience with XP, but unfortunately only 1.25 GB of RAM.
Windows 7 needs more than 1.25 GB and everything takes twice as long as XP,
assuming I can get over the UAC hurdles.

I assume that the PE Builder will run under XP and sweetly get all it needs from the W7 installation disc.

Please warn me of any potential problems.

Regards
Alan

Hi alan_b

Bart's PEBuilder only works with Windows XP or 2003 source files
(A free time limited Trial of Win 2003 was/is available for download from Microsoft)

If you want to Use Windows 7 to build a PE see Wim_2's Make_PE3
(this can use your installed Win 7 (without the DVD)

I bought a second hand Acer Win 7 laptop recently with only 1 GB of ram
it works but I added an extra 1GB.
It all depends on how many programs you want open at a time


regards

Mike Barnes