Simon,
Have you ever looked at Winbuilder (http://reboot.pro)? If so, have you thought about creating a script for EEPC 7′s EETECH to use with Winbuilder. Winbuilder uses WINPE3 and seems to be the new BartPE. That is, unless you can recommend something else that not only allows the building of an EETECH DVD, but allows for other tools can be added to it like UBCD4WIN (old, but useable, technology)?
I put in a PER for both, UBCD4WIN and Winbuilder, both were turned down, UBCD4WIN because it is “old technology” and Winbuilder because the people looking at it, were not aware of it and they “don’t provide support for 3rd party applications and the functionality for WinPE provided should be sufficient”. A rather disappointing answer especially since the documented method leaves the user at a command prompt (requires the user to know and type the exact path to EETECH) and does not easily allow additional tools to be added. Nothing like taking a step backwards for support. I was able to use version 5’s BartPE with UBCD4WIN and it worked well.
We added some additional tools to it so we could recover data from an encrypted drive without decrypting first. In the case of a failing drive, this was very important and saved us a lot of time and money
I used to see a decrease in application functionality when products went from fat client to browser based, a lot of good functionality disappeared for many releases (some never recovered it). Sorry for the rant, but it is just some of my frustration coming out.
Thanks,
Keith
