No.

No.

On the 911 CD Announcements forum.

You did not slipstream your Service Pack to your Windows XP installation files correctly!
An easy way to check if you have slipstreamed correctly:
If you have slipstreamed Service Pack 2 to your installation files, view the file called drvindex.inf. There should be a line like CabFiles=SP2,driver in the version section.
If you have slipstreamed Service Pack 1 to your installation files, view the file called drvindex.inf. There should be a line like CabFiles=SP1,driver in the version section.
If the line does not have the SPn argument the slipstreaming was not succesfull!

If you have a non-english Windows XP and you have slipstreamed using PE Builder's (v3.1.4 and lower) slipstream option in the main menu you can also get this problem. This will be fixed in next PE Builder public release. For now, please slipstream the files yourself, see FAQ item 21.

BartPE has these limitations:

• To reduce its size, only a subset of the available Win32 APIs is included. Included are I/O (disk and network) and core Win32 APIs.
• Distributed File System (DFS) name resolution is not supported.
• The drive letters assigned during BartPE are not saved to any registry that persists when you reboot. The drive letter assignment when you create partitions is in the order of creation, but the drive letter assignments when you reboot will be in the default order.
• BartPE requires a VGA-compatible device and uses a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. If BartPE cannot detect video settings, the default screen resolution is 640 x 480 pixels.
• BartPE is too large to fit on a floppy disk.

That is fine, BartPE will not overflow, just ignore it.

Yes, I don't know why this is, but I know nothing is wrong. When you check the version you will see it is v5.2.3790.

The ISO image created by PE Builder is using the (new) ISO 9660:1999 standard.
Specifications can be found here: http://www.y-adagio.com/public/standards/iso_cdromr/tocont.htm
This new specification says that the length of Directory and File Identifier is limited to 207.
So the file and directory names can be up to 207 characters. Most ISO build/edit programs and operating systems (like Dos) that are based on ISO 9660:1988 do not like those long names and may not work.

Do you have administrator rights? Try closing pebuilder.exe and try again. If still fails, close pebuilder.exe and run regedit.exe. Check the HKEY_USERS for any subkey starting with "pebuilder", select that key and select "Unload Hive" from the regedit menu. Try again...

Yes! Very handy for testing...
Here is how to do that (pebuilder v3.1.2 or higher):

• Run PE-Builder as normal, no need to create an ISO image. Make sure you have the plugin "BartPE Harddisk Installer" enabled.
  
• After building, goto the plugin\pehdinst folder and run pehdinst.cmd <path>. Where <path> is the PE Builder output folder (default c:\pebldr). Select option "1" for installing next to your existing windows (boot.ini).
  
• When pehdinst.cmd has succesfully finished, reboot your system and select "Boot BartPE (by PE Builder)" from the boot.ini menu.
  

Update: pehdinst has been replaced with peinst with recent versions of pebuilder.
Here is how to use peinst (PE Builder v3.1.3 and higher):

• Run PE-Builder and build as normal (no need to create an ISO image).
• After building, goto the <pebuilder>\plugin\peinst folder and run peinst.cmd <path> c:
  Where <path> is the PE Builder output folder (default <pebuilder>\BartPE).
  
• Select option "5) Install BartPE to c:" and "2) Install PE-loader in c:\boot.ini".
  This will add a line to your boot.ini for loading BartPE and is done is just a second. This action is only needed once, you can skip this next time.
• Select option "5) Install BartPE to c:" and "1) Install BartPE files to c:".
  This will install the BartPE files in c:\minint and c:\programs. This will take a few minutes.
• When peinst.cmd has succesfully finished, reboot your system and select "Boot BartPE (by PE Builder)" from the boot.ini menu.
  

Probably. But booting from UFD is not always stable at the moment. It is very dependent on what exact hardware is used. Some bioses cannot be set to the correct emulation and other systems hang or abort when the windows USB drivers are loaded. Tricky stuff, maybe better support in future...
Try Pe2usb: Installing Bartpe To Usb Flash Disk.

Yes, that kernel does not support the "/minint" switch and therefore cannot boot from readonly media... Also the layout.inf does not contain required information.

No, absolutely not!

An Aopen 952E revision A75 does not work, revision A64 works OK. There is a bug in the Aopen CD-Rom drive firmware, contact Aopen.

This is normal, when booting bartPE/winPE from harddisk diskpart will not work, when booting from CD-Rom/DVD it should work fine.

You must enable the dcomlaunch plugin "RpcSS needs to launch DComLaunch Service first - SP2 only".

Yes, use PE Builder v3.0.33 and higher!

Yes, use PE Builder v3.0.33 and higher!

Are you including any diskpart plugins for win2003? If yes, disable it!

You must slipstream your source Window XP files with service pack 1 or a newer service pack when available.

To slipstream your files do the following:

1. Copy all files from your Windows XP installation/setup CD-Rom to your harddisk. For example you can copy it to the folder c:\winxpsp. Make sure you copy all files and all subdirectories! You should now have a file called c:\winxpsp\i386\setupldr.bin. If not go back, you did something wrong.
   The location of the i386 folder may differ, for example when you have a dual boot MSDN cd-rom it will be in \%lang%\winxp\%edition%, where %lang% is your language, like "ENGLISH", "GERMAN" and %edition% is "Home" or "Pro". Other CD's may have it just in the root or in some other location.
2. Apply service pack to your files using the "-s" option (you must supply full path).
   xpsp1_en_x86.exe -s:c:\winxpsp

Now use the folder c:\winxpsp in PE Builder as the path to your installation source files.

No! Besides the builder from Microsoft, OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK), there are no other "real" PE builders.
Be warned! There are builders out there that claim to build WinPE, but if you look closely you'll see there are wrapped around Microsofts WinPE builder. Please note that using such a builder does not mean that you have properly licensed WinPE from Microsoft!

You must check if a registry key exists...
To check if running any PE (WinPE or BartPE): HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\control\minint
To check if running BartPE: HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\control\PE Builder

Press Alt-M (somethimes you must press it twice).

Yes, use PE Builder v3.0.32 or higher.

Yes, it can.

No, BartPE does not read Encrypting Files.

When you have created BartPE using an Windows XP OEM CD (for example from Dell) you can have boot problems. To fix this the driver files must be copied manually. Easiest way to do this is by adding the Fix Dell XP plugin.
(other Windows XP OEM CDs can have the same problem).

To add a program you must create a plugin. This plugin is sort of a manual installation of the program.

To create your own plugin (for advanced users) checkout:

• http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/help/english/pluginformat.htm
• http://www.911cd.net/forums/

Normal users I would advice:

• Search plugin locations: The CD Forum -> PE Builder -> Plugins Repository, oion's gallimaufry : Quick N Dirty : BartPE Plugin Depot or BartPE Plugin Repository.
• If no plugin can be found, try contacting the vendor/author of the program that you are trying to add and convince him that he really should supply a BartPE plugin for his program.
  

Yes, you are allowed to do that. But I encourage companies to make a small donation.

You are missing the correct HP storage drivers. See Storage- and network drivers.

SATA drivers (as any other type) is supported. But drivers in BartPE are not included using the iastor.inf file, so you could remove the iastor.inf to prevent this "unsupported class" message, but it is not necessary.
PE Builder uses the txtsetup.oem file that comes with all storage adapter drivers to include the correct driver files and related hardware IDs.
More info: Adding drivers (PE Builder help)

You must slipstream your Windows XP files. Easiest way todo this is to use the slipstream option in PE Builder. In the menu select source-> slipstream. Insert your Windows XP CD-Rom and enter the location at the "source" field. Enable the "source is readonly" flag. If you have not done already, download Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package. Enter the location of this service pack file at the "servicepack" field. Hit the [OK] button. PE Builder will first copy files from your CD to the fixed disk and after that the slipstream will be started. This will all take a while, just wait.

PE Builder needs the Windows XP installation files or CD for building. The files in your c:\windows directory are already installed and you are probably running Windows from this location. This location is not where you install windows from.
Imagine this: you have just replaced the harddrive from your computer with a new one. This new harddrive is empty, your computer does not boot. To install Windows XP, you need to boot from the Windows installation CD and complete the setup. This same CD must be used with PE Builder.
More info: Searching Windows installation files (PE Builder help)

As you probably know PE Builder is free software. Donations are welcome but not required. At current, the costs for hiring a dedicated web server and for developing the software are covered by the use of advertisement on our web pages.
So you could think of it like this: the advertisement on the nu2.nu web pages is what keeps PE Builder free software!