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How to create a Live windows cd

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aditya.shevade
aditya.shevade Original post #1
Jul 11, 2006 at 11:49 AM
Hi

Can anyone please tell me how to create a live windows cd? The one like linux which you don't have to install on a hard disk. I want the info on win 98 and win xp pro.

Thank you
Aditya Shevade
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Jul 11, 2006 at 12:49 PM
There are a lot of threads already running on this. Please search
Vishal Gupta
Jul 11, 2006 at 2:51 PM
About win 98 I don't know!
For windows XP Live CD, u can use BartPE bootable live windows CD/DVD

Bart's PE Builder helps you build a bootable Window CD-Rom or DVD from Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.

It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. This will replace any Dos bootdisk (even masterpieces like modboot and Bart's Network Bootdisk) in no time!

PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment ("WinPE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft WinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement include in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use.

The PE Builder program (pebuilder.exe) runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003. It does not run on Windows NT4/ME/9x.
Zeeshan Quireshi
Jul 11, 2006 at 8:35 PM
yeah i use Bat's PE and it's very good .
kin.vachhani
Aug 21, 2006 at 1:59 AM
Working man....thn man.....
gary4gar
Aug 21, 2006 at 2:10 AM
but mind it would be a real slow system stepup
kin.vachhani
Aug 21, 2006 at 2:15 AM
vmware is also a good option.....check it out