HawkPE-42 - The PC Tech\'s Swiss Army Knife Live CD

A fully-functional WinPE (Windows XP SP2) + Linux (Slax-6) live CD/DVD ISO. Comes w/ AdAware SE + McAfee AV + ClamAV + SpywareDoctor updated as of 29-Dec-08, Windows Explorer, SmartDriverBackup, PCITREE, FoxIt PDF Reader, FileZilla FTP Client, Ghost 8, UltraVNC, Partition Magic 8, CHNTPW (now Vista-compatible), WIPECMOS, MEMTEST, the IBM/Seagate/WD hdrive diagnostics, etc. Boots to WinPE by default. Download README-HAWKPE.TXT or HAWKPE-CHANGES.TXT in advance, for details about the package. What *is* WinPE, you say ?!? WinPE is a limited version of Windows XP, which boots and operates from a CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive. WinPE doesn't work quite as well as normal Windows XP/2K3/Vista, that is, (for example) it doesn't do wireless or multimedia, but WinPE has *all* of the capabilities you'll need prepare and repair your PCs. Let's say your PC has been overwhelmed by malware or the PC has crashed and Windows won't boot any more. Armed with a copy of HawkPE, you *may* be able to: repair the issue that causes the boot failure (replace a broken registry with a backup copy), transfer your data to a USB external drive in anticipation of reinstalling Windows, remove a forgotten Windows login password, or clean the malware infestation (among other things.) OTOH, if you have a new PC and want to give it a custom configuration beyond the conventional single hard disk partition (like yours truly !), then you can boot HawkPE to pre-initialize the PC as desired, prior to running the OS installer. From the HawkPE main menu, you will also have direct access to a suite of excellent utilities for identifying hardware problems, recovering data, and initializing your PC in preparation of a new operating system. For those who've been asking, there's now a procedure to transfer HAWKPE to a USB thumb drive and make it bootable, along w/ other additions to the HAWKPE-CHANGES & README-HAWKPE text files ! Slax is an excellent example of a portable Linux, which comes w/ Firefox-2+Flash-9, KDE's KOffice suite, multimedia goodies, and the latest K3B CD/DVD burning application. So with a USB thumb drive and your HAWKPE CD/DVD, you can carry a multimedia-enabled computer system, with you at all times. Enjoy.... As a recap, here's the most up-to-date inventory of what's on the disc: A2Hijack AdAware SE Pro AusLogic Defrag AutoRuns (!! from SysInternals !!) Broadcom 44xx-NIC Drivers Broadcom Extreme-NIC Drivers Change NT/2K/XP/2K3/Vista Passwords Clamwin AV CPUZ Darik's Boot and Nuke Driver Genius Filezilla FoxIt PDF Reader Ghost 8 HWPnP IBM/Hitachi Disk Fitness Test Intel-10-100-1000MHz NIC Drivers Intel-810 Display Drivers Intel-Extreme Display Drivers Microscope 2005 McAfee AV Scanner Memtest86 MemtestPlus MHDD Freeware Hard Drive Repair/Analysis Utility NSSI nVidia Display Drivers Partition Magic 8 PCITree PowerDefragmenter PuTTY Python Sala Password Renew-Beta Samsung HUTIL [2.10] Hard Drive Diagnostic SeaTools (Seagate/Maxtor) Drive Diagnostics Smart Driver Backup TFTPD32 Treesize Pro UltraVNC ViewCHM Vista Recovery System (New for #42 DVD Edition) WCPUID Western Digital Drive Diagnostics 5 Windows File Explorer WinRAR ** From HAWKPE-CHANGES ************************************************ 4-Jan-09 - Changes to HAWKPE-42 from HAWKPE-41: ** Updated BartPE/WinPE w/ the latest McAfee, AdAware, and ClamWin defs, somewhere around 29-Dec to 4-Jan. Removed Norton Security Scan bec the current one needs some custom programming, before it can be restored to the collection. Hopefully, next time out. ** Added the Vista Recovery System to the DVD edition. ** Replaced Ghost 8 executables w/ Ghost 11 executables. Ghost 11 is probably the last cmd-line based Ghost (from 2007) that can make Vista NTFS partitions. ** Have changed the archiver to 7-Zip from WinRAR, for a free archiver solution that even newbies can obtain. Get the utility from http://www.7-zip.org/download.html ******************************** Notes ******************************** It appears that BTS Driver Mass Storage Pack, while part of the system, wasn't working at all. I was trying to add additional BTS drivers when this was encountered. As always, I got feedback from HawkPE users, which made me curious and here we are. Had hoped to add other things to this update, but there was no time to evaluate anything beyond the Vista Recovery System. This is the official Microsoft Vista recovery tool, for doing basic repairs of broken Vista installations. I haven't had the opportunity to use this from the disc, but I have used it directly from Vista systems using [F5] at boot time. When you launch the 'Vista Recovery System' menu pick, you will see a prompt: 'Press any key to boot from CD or DVD'. Press a key to actually launch the system, otherwise just like a Windows boot CD/DVD, it will launch the OS on the hard drive. C'ya next time. :-- The Hawk --: ========================================================== 4-Jan-09 == PS: Download *ALL* components in order to use HAWKPE.... PPS: Better than UBCD, better than Hiren's CD. This is a true Swiss Army knife for repairing and setting up PCs. ** Snapshots: ** The HawkPE boot screen: http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll101/greyhawk516/HawkPE-42-Boot.png The HawkPE/WinPE screen: http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll101/greyhawk516/HawkPE-42-BartPE-480.png

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Nas420 (2009-01-21)

I registered for TPB just to thank you for continuing to improve this bootdisk and provide it to all. I work I.T. support and use this tool all the time on non-booting/blue-screening XP boxes. This disk is the best tool I have in my arsenal when dealing with certain PC issues. THANK YOU! keep up the good work.

He1vis (2009-02-01)

I appreciate the up but why make everyone install 7 zip to decompress? I already have too much crap installed.

He1vis (2009-02-01)

Ok, I guess I just needed a newer version of winrar. I'll get rid of 7 zip and stop bitchin' ;o)

njel1416 (2009-02-02)

hey grey, I got to say that this is just genius, but there is the thing with fat16x and the setup you have in this xp, perhaps you should take a look at the job made on the Portable Windows XP Live USB Edition 2008 - V2.02 and leave windows on an iso and the rest as is, actually everything else I haven't tested it yet ... but I'm planning to do so right now since your work came across my path just in the moment when I needed it the most... that's because my friend has an hp mini 2300 and I can't get to succesfully make an image of the entire HD due to clobezilla finding 5 hardware errors on it, the machine's hard-drive is a hitachi, I bet your disk's DFT might be of help, anyhow... lets get back to work.

Quad-Damage (2009-02-03)

I love this CD, I wish there was a way to add custom network drivers, I use this cd to boot with network boot for ghost 11. Is there a way to add the Lan Driver Packets, so i can net boot into almost any computer. I would be great to add on to a new version. Or make a exe or file for adding network drivers to the current cd with a iso editor or something.
Thanks love your CD

awudu (2009-02-11)

I haven't downloaded this CD yet but I wish there was more network, display, sound and other drivers plus more internet security programs like Antivirus, spyware, malware and rootkit programs which can scan the computer and clean..
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This Avast CD scan and finds viruses and trojans but cannot clean them...
I don' know if it can because all the scans I've made with this disc searched for viruses and at the end, when I choose o repair, 'Repair fails'.

V70ShellshocK (2009-04-13)

Thanks Hawk for your hard work. The CD and DVD versions have come in handy for troubleshooting and quick fixes on friend's PCs. There is a lot on here I wish I had more knowledge to use, but that's on me to learn. Keep up the excellent work!

FirenXe (2009-04-17)

Works on my 1GB SanDisk flawlessly :)
This really helps me a lot thanks !!!!!!!

eternale12003 (2009-08-21)

I booted the cd and dvd version just to test it, when I go through bartspe/winpe it's starts to load shows the windows xp screen and then a BSOD. I'm running vista nothings wrong, I was just testing the cd/dvd, anybody else have this problem.

eternale12003 (2009-08-23)

Nevermind, found the problem. It's because the BTS drivers weren't working, I have a sata drive and since the drivers weren't working BSOD popped up. Either add the drivers yourself or go in the bios and change the sata drive mode to ata or compatible.

webuser8 (2011-01-15)

Thank you.
esp for providing the 'CD size' version.
I only recently found these.
I did also see the newer 4.3 versions.
Hurray for the updates. :)