I have been building PCs even longer than you...
I started on mainframes / dumb terminals in 68...
My first "PC" was a Poly88 kit... followed by an IBM

If you want a really really easy way to use BartPE just download and use UBCD4Win...

It is Bartpe preconfigured with the DriverPacks mass storage plugin prebuilt and many other useful tools prebundled and ready to go.

If you simply add DriverPacks mass storage plugin to your build it will only take a few minutes... and it works
(You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.)

Windows Vista definately sucks... Win7 is much better than Vista, as win XP is better than 2K

The person I was referring to is accused of copyright theft.
Apparently, many people at this other forum collectively
developed some really excellent "open source" plugins.
As soon as this guy had a good collection he created a new
site and started selling them.

I purchased two of them.  Why, you may ask?  Because
Acronis provides lousy free plugins, or intructions for
creating plugins that don't work.  For ten bucks I got two
Acronis plugins that work very well.  At the time I made
the purchase I knew nothing about this raging conflict
going on at this other forum.

As for myself, I fell into a sinkhole of hardware and
software conflicts with a new desktop.  I could not get
XP Pro_SP3 to write to several new eSATA drives without
a "delayed write failed" error message.  Microsoft was
very aware of this problem.  None of their solutions
worked.  Updating numerous chipset and sata drivers
finally fixed all the problems.

Because I had setup a RAID 0 system, none of the usual
boot media created by backup software worked.  I had
never heard of Bart, until someone suggested that I could
run my backup apps from a Bart disk, with the RAID 0
driver included.

I had no desire to become a Bart expert.  Getting all those
other drivers onto a Bart CD so it could access my eSATA
drives was a nightmare for me.  Your collection of driverpacks
is the final option.

I Googled about this problem with adpenc.inf.  Sure enough,
there were other posts with simple solutions. 

I'll try burning a CD.  If there are any more probems I'll consider
your DriverPacks BASE.

I've been building computers for a very long time.  I go back to
those primitive kits sold in hobby magazines like Radio and
Popular Electronics. 

Bart deserves all the attention its getting.  It's a remarkable
program.  I keep asking myself, how many more hours do
I want to devote to this app?  In the end, it may be easier to
junk some of my expensive hardware and use a different
operating system.  I've played around with Linux distros, but
never seriously considered dumping Windows.  The best
thing I ever did was not switching to Vista.  What a mess!
Who knows what Windows 7 will be like.  Like all Microsoft
systems, it will probably take years and a couple of service
packs before most of the bugs are patched.  I'm don't have
the time anymore to wait for Microsoft to fix things.  I've
got to go down a different road.  Maybe this set of awful
problems with Windows is the kick in the rear end I needed
to make a change.

the outline is this

1 Use DriverPacks BASE to create your Mass storage plugin.

2 Run PEBuilder

Done... without errors.

PS The unpopular guy whos name you mentioned on the other forum is probably a good friend of the DriverPacks
We arn't here to win popularity contests, we only care to provide solutions that work. the really good guys are usually the grumpy sob's since success is often so closely related to being unwilling to compromise  .

Recently, I've been trying to cope with more hardware and software
conflicts than my tired brain can handle.

The first thing I did was move the entire PE Builder directory to "C" the
root partition of your operating system.  This simplified and fixed a lot
of problems I was having.  The only driverpack I need for my Bart CD
is mass storage.

The PEbuilder log has two remaining errors that I'm not sure how to
correct.

Processing INF file "C:\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\ADB\adpenc.inf", class "System", provider "ADAPTEC, INC.", version "01/08/2007"
Error: Section "" does not exist

Processing INF file "C:\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\ADC\adpenc.inf", class "System", provider "ADAPTEC, INC.", version "02/08/2008"
Error: Section "" does not exist

I can't find anything in adpenc.inf that would cause these two errors.  The
solution is probably staring me in the face, but I don't see it.

[[I hate to mention someone's name, because I never know the history of a
person as it relates to this or any other forum.

I discovered DriverPacks by reading Jeff Crystal's blog.  I recently mentioned
another person (on a different forum) who developed many plugins for Bart.
Everyone at that forum disliked this guy a lot!  I hope I'm not offending anyone
by mentioning Mr. Crystal.  I only know him through his blog.]]

see the tutorial in my signature

Welcome to DriverPacks

moved to the PE forum...

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\ADB\adpenc.inf", class "System", provider "ADAPTEC, INC.", version "01/08/2007"
Error: Section "" does not exist

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\ADC\adpenc.inf", class "System", provider "ADAPTEC, INC.", version "02/08/2008"
Error: Section "" does not exist

Error Number 2 - Repeated Six Times
This one is simply incomprehensible.  All my apps related to CDs and
DVDs are in a directory with this path name: D:\CD & DVD.  There is no
directory or file that ends with "PE" as shown in the errors below.

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\AT\atihdc.inf", class "hdc", provider "ATI Technologies Inc", version "04/15/2004"
Adding file: pciide.sys
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\AU\ALIIDE.inf", class "hdc", provider "ALi Coporation", version "03/06/2003"
Adding file: aliide.sys
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\NV4\NVATA4.inf", class "HDC", provider "NVIDIA Corporation", version "04/24/2006"
Adding file: nvata4.sys
Adding file: idecoi4.dll
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\NV5\NVGTS5.inf", class "HDC", provider "NVIDIA Corporation", version "07/02/2007"
Adding file: nvgts5.sys
Adding file: idecoi5.dll
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\NV6\nvgts.inf", class "HDC", provider "NVIDIA Corporation", version "07/27/2007"
Adding file: nvgts.sys
Adding file: idecoi.dll
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

Processing INF file "D:\CD & DVD\PE Builder\drivers\SCSIAdapter\D\M\NVTM\NVATABUSTM.inf", class "HDC", provider "NVIDIA Corporation", version "04/24/2006"
Adding file: nvatabus.sys
Adding file: idecoi.dll
Error: cannot find file: D:\CD & DVD\PE

After loading these big driver packs, I don't expect the first test burn
of a BartPE cd to be perfect.  If I can't eliminate these last two errors,
I'm dead in the water!

Thanks guys.