Windows Live CD

[DimGR]

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Has anyone ever tried this? It looks a very good one but you must dual boot with WIndows in order to execute the fle and create the ISO image.:(

[riekon]

Not sure of your reason for wanting a live windows cd, but none the less, BartXP is a very good live windows emulator.

[DimGR]

Originally posted by riekon
Not sure of your reason for wanting a live windows cd,


just for fun :)

[bryan.6]

i'm pretty sure we use BartPE or BartXP at my college, for recovery and stuff like that.

[bosox79]

DimGR,

Thanks for posting this. This CD may come in handy when my friends and family's windows PC crash:(

[cybertron]

We've used this a little at my school. It comes in handy if the computer won't boot because of spyware or something so you can't run any diagnostics on it.

[leonpmu]

I used it once, wasn't that helpful really, not all the tools I needed. but then I don't know much about repairing XP. A friend of mine helped me, but in the old end I grabbed the clients data and had to do a reinstall for him anyway....

[DMR]

Originally posted by cybertron
It comes in handy if the computer won't boot because of spyware or something so you can't run any diagnostics on it.
And all of this time I've been using Knoppix for those situations. Silly me... :D

[cybertron]

Originally posted by DMR
And all of this time I've been using Knoppix for those situations. Silly me... :D

It's kind of hard to remove spyware when you can't write to the NTFS partition though:) I did use Knoppix under these same circumstances to pull files off the person's computer in case I needed to reinstall Windows (couldn't talk him into just installing Linux:D).

[DMR]

I know; I was just joking. ;)

I do use a Knoppix CD for the sort of circumstance you described though- pulling critical data off of Windows drives which have been so corrupted (usually by viruses and spyware) that they are "beyond repair" in terms of any Windows-based rescue methods.

[cybertron]

Originally posted by DMR
I know; I was just joking. ;)
I thought so, but I was afraid I had missed something important.:) If you actually could do that I'd throw out all of my Windows utilities and just carry a Knoppix CD everywhere I go!

[DMR]

Unfortunately, the NTFS write problem isn't (as I'm sure you know) distro-specific, and I personally am not going to trust using any of the current solutions to that problem on a client's drive.

However- I'm sure we'll see full and reliable NTFS support at some point in the relatively near future, and when that point comes I'll gladly ditch many of my Windows utils as well. :)

[beerman]

I never had any problems using ERD Commander to fix some problems with Win2k or WinXP. I have to give a live XP CD a shot for the hell of it.