I have used this CD/DVD for awhile now. For every thing from cleaning a nonbootable laptop to a complete restore of a server. What is cool about the Bartpe CD is that you can add any software that you have paid for or is freeware, and run it from the CD. The CD runs from memory, it dose not use the hard drive. So if there is a problem like corrupt files or a virus it will not load them. And allow you to fix problems from the CD. I was reading PCworld and found a new use for it. Here is the link.
http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,122487,00.asp
This tells you how to Create a Windows restore CD for PC?s That Don’t Have One.