[GRLUG] live cd on vista?

[Faeren Madza]

Hey Topher,

I suppose your success with it would depend on what's wrong with the
Windows OS. As others have mentioned, BartPE or any other flavor of
Windows PE really...you can think of them as Windows live discs.
Although you;re looking at a limited set of utilities compared to a
full-fledged Linux live disc, it has enough to manage files,
mount/edit registry hives, analyze crashes, clone hard drives, burn
discs, scan for viruses, mount a network location as a share to
copy/move data to...etc.

In truth, you can use the PE builder to add whatever plugins/utilities
you would like. It even has a cool feature that will let you transfer
your PE image on to a USB stick and make it bootable.

I think I have an ISO somewhere that I created a couple of years back.
If you're unable to create your own, let me know and I'll find it for
you.


Faeren.


On Feb 17, 2008 10:55 AM, Topher <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
> >> I've used a live cd to salvage data from a currupted XP drive many
> >> times, but now that Vista is more popular my friends are asking me to
> >> save THOSE too.

> For the record, Ubuntu Feisty couldn't start X, and Knoppix 4 couldn't
> find the hard drive.  Knoppix 5.1 did everything perfectly.
>
> Mostly unrelated, I've typically used live cds to scrape data off of old
> dead machines, which are typically pretty slow.  Knoppix was REALLY snappy
> on a high end 64bit proc with 2G of ram.