Boot BartPE from a flash drive

February 29, 2008

For a while now I’ve been looking for a way to use a flash drive to boot up a computer into BartPE. The CD works fine, but it is a little on the slow side. There are a few utilities that come with BartPE that are suppose to do this for you, but I haven’t been able to get them to work correctly (or not at all seeing as the machine wouldn’t boot from the flash drive).

After looking around for a bit, and doing some research, I finally found a small utility that will make the flash drive bootable and install BartPE onto the flash drive.

The utility is called PeToUSB, and can be found here. It’s a small program that provides a GUI for making the bootable BartPE flash drive. It has worked great for me so far.