Bart PE is a nice solution for cooking your liveCD: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Best regards, Janos --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]> > Subject: [Thinkpad] Creating a bootable repair CD without an XP CD > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 11:01 AM > Can I create a bootable repair CD > without buying a separate XP CD? > > There are several options to create a bootable repair CD > which might fix some types of corruption: bad mbr, boot ini, > partition boot record, corrupted password or other issues > which lock one out. All I have seen require a Windows CD > (if you want to repair your Windows environment), and I > don't believe the I386 directory or the recovery partition > substitute for that. There are said to be ways to do this > without a Windows CD, but I found no clear path to do so. > > ERD Commander apparrantly provided both a recovery console > and a bootable fixit toolkit (*it may have required OS > install disks, this is not clear) but it no longer > available from MS for retail customers. So I need to bake > something myself. > > i) Is this worth the trouble? What is the time-efficient > way to create a bootable repair kit? > > ii) So how can I cook my own repair CD and create a way > to fix issues that might well occur? It should be able to > restore the correct MBR and partition records, perform basic > file operations etc. Limited automation would be nice, > as I don't have the names and locations of critical system > files memorized. > > -- LS > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
