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Run EASEUS Todo Backup from BartPE based boot CD-ROM

Why use EASEUS Todo Backup from WinPE based boot CD-ROM

EASEUS Todo Backup provides bootable disk function based on Linux for you to create bootable disk to restore the system partition. However, the drive letters will not be displayed and most of the functions are not available. By the way, EASEUS Todo Backup provides WinPE based bootable disk which is more powerful. Please see the table below:

  Linux Bootable Disk WinPE Bootable Disk
Media Linux PEBuilder & Windows Installation CD
Install required Yes No
Support hardware RAID No Yes
Support Windows 7 Yes Yes
Backup No Yes
Mount No Yes
Display drive letter No Yes

If you encountered any problem with Linux bootable disk, you may try WinPE bootable disk, below is the introduction and steps about how to create WinPE bootable disk.

What is the Windows PE

Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE) is a powerful replacement for the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system in your deployment processes, test and diagnostic tool development, and system recovery processes. Windows PE is a minimal Windows system that provides limited services based on the Windows XP Professional and the Windows Server 2003 kernels. It also provides the minimal set of features required to run Windows Setup, access and install operating systems from the network, script basic repetitive tasks, and validate hardware.

The WinPE does not require a hard drive to boot; it can run solely from a CD drive using the memory for dynamic data. This feature makes the WinPE appealing for data recovery and system maintenance purposes.

However, in the market, there isn't the Windows Pre-installation Environment for sale. You can use software named BartPE to produce the WinPE.

How to use BartPE to produce the WinPE

The BartPE didn't contain any record of the WinPE or the Windows XP. If you want to run the BartPE to produce the WinPE, you need to execute the original installation CD of Windows Xp. Hence, the BartPE didn't infract the copyright of Microsoft. The BartPE is just use the installation CD of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 to complete the Pre-installation environment.

The user can download the BartPE at the website. And then just need follow the instruction step by step. You can also create a rescue CD of BartPE. This CD will give you a great help when your Windows XP/2003 crashed.

The BartPE gives the entire Win32 environment to the user. Hence, you can use the CD to do the job in network. You can see the graphical interfaces and do various jobs of FAT/NTFS/CDFS without installing the operating system in the hard disk.

Further more, we believe you don't need the DOS bootable floppy any more if you have the BartPE CD.

How to create EASEUS Todo Backup WinPE bootable disk?

Here is a step by step instruction of creating a bootable CD of EASEUS Todo Backup via using BartPE:

1. Please Install PE Builder in the local computer.

2. You should download the BartPE plugin of EASEUS Todo Backup firstly. This file named todobackup.cab. Please do not decompress this file.

3. Run PE Builder.

Choose Windows installation files path

Press the first "..." button in "Source" in the main window to select the directory where you stored the Windows installation files. Generally, you need to choose the CD-ROW. If you copied the ISO installation file to a partition, please decompress it to a folder and choose this folder as "Source".

4. Please click the "Plugins" button in main window.

Plugin list window

5. In the pop-up window, please click "Add" button

Open EASEUS Partition Master plugin

6. Choose the todo.cab which you downloaded. And then press "Open" button.

Add EASEUS Partition Master plugin

EASEUS Todo Backup successfully added

7. Please close the "Plugins" window.

8. Please select the Create ISO image option in "Media output" in the main interface. Click the "..." button, choose a directory to store the output ISO file.

Choose media output

9. Click the "Build" button and after a few minutes later, the software will prompt you that the process has been completed.

Start creating WinPE ISO file

10. Please burn the ISO file which just was created to CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, then you successfully create a BartPE based EASEUS Todo Backup bootable CD.

Creating WinPE ISO file completed

  • PE Builder is copyrighted by Bart Lagerweij.
  • Windows XP and WinPE are copyrighted by Microsoft.
  • EASEUS Todo Backup is copyrighted by CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd.

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