How easy (or difficult) is it to build a WinFE with WinBuilder?
An easy quickstart guide to build your WinFE ISO… 1) Extract WinBuilder to the root of your C:/ drive 2) Run WinBuilder 3) Click 3 buttons and you are done. If you want more features, such as additional programs, network support, audio, more…
Read MoreTriage Notes and WinFE
One of the biggest benefits (besides imaging storage media) of WinFE is the ability to create a customized triage system at virtually no cost. Purchasing a pre-made system may not be an issue when only one or a few systems are needed, but when…
Read MoreOSForensics
Giving more usability to WinFE, OSForensics has several features that I can see being beneficial in triage of a system with OSForensics. Â OSForensics can be run on a live system (not the optimal decision in most cases), a mounted image, or in a…
Read MoreWinFE Demo Online
I’ll be giving a demo of WinFE to www.ctin.org on March 10 (online). I’ll be showing some neat developments in the work as well as discuss solving build problems. There are a few spots left and you have to be a CTIN member to view the…
Read MoreBut does it do Mac?
Just to clear up any questions on whether WinFE can ‘do a Mac’, well…it can. And Linux too. And of course it can do Windows as well. As long as the machine can be booted to a WinFE CD or USB, then you can image…
Read MoreIt’s time to build your WinFE!
You can now download the WinFE WinBuilder. Thanks to everyone that helped support this effort, it was well worth it. As to a guide on how to use WinFE, it probably isn’t really needed since WinFE is simply a forensic boot disc. So, you…
Read MorePortable Internet Evidence Finder and WinFE
Jad Saliba (of JadSoftware.com) has released an update to his Internet Evidence Finder/IEF in a portable version. Now this sounds really good to have the ability to plug in a USB drive into a running machine to gather the information that IEF…
Read MoreUpdated video and other things
If you haven’t seen Marc Remmert’s video on creating a WinFE ISO, here is his video. Although the WinBuilder method greatly simplifies what Marc shows in his video, it certainly recommended to see what is actually happening to a…
Read MoreDo you wanna be a beta tester for WinFE?
Just before the latest WinBuilder WinFE gets released, would you like to take it on a test run first before the rest of the world gets it? There are some neat features (Bitlocker support, DiskPart batch file, plus others), but the main concern is…
Read MoreWinBuilder Revisited
A big thanks to Royal Meier for providing a script to modify the registry with a WinBuilder Win7PE build. What I thought would be a difficult task of using WinBuilder to build a WinFE ISO, is turning out to be quite simple, at least for…
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