How to create Win XP SP2 Live CD

We are going to create a windows XP Live CD

For this, wee are going to use Bart's PE Builder. The CD build this way would be able to

• Read and Write NTFS drives
• Get network access and copy files off hosted machines
• Remove malware
• Manipulate the local users and registry

Things Required:

• A Windows XP SP2 install CD
• Bart's PE Builder (Download Here)

Now lets get going....

Now first of all we have to copy all the files to a local drive, for the sake of example lets say we copy the windows entire CD in c:\winxp-xp2-CD

OK, go ahead and install the Bart's PE Builder. Its really simple just keep on clicking next all the way and you would be done. (Unless you want to change the install directory)

Launch the application, you will have to accept the agreement to continue...

After accepting the agreement, it will ask you if it should search for the installation files... you can always do that, or you can choose "No" and manually feed it later, now the screen that will come up is this



In the Source field, just put the path of the folder where we copied the Win XP files

Also choose "Create ISO Image" radio button.

If you want, you can click on plugins and choose which plugins you want to enable, you have to decide it before the build if you are going to burn it on a disc.

After thats done, just click on build and the software will create the ISO image in the specified folder.

OK, now we have a desired ISO image.

Again we can either burn it on a CD and your computer can boot from the CD and reach the desktop, the C drive will be visible so you can easily remove / any file from C drive as the computer has booted from the disc.

Or you can use any software (recommended) such as VMware Player, its a free program that can run your ISO image.
Its also recommended for the people to first "dry run" the ISO on a VMware player so that you can be sure that you have all the things going

For additional fuctionalities being added you have to download and copy the plugins on to the PE Builder directory. There are litrally thousands of plugins available Here