Hello,
Here are some Linux Live CDs you can try:
INSERT - http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html (last update 2007)
KNOPPIX - http://www.knoppix.com/
PartedMagic - http://partedmagic.com/
SystemRescueCD - http://www.sysresccd.org/
Trinity Rescue Kit - http://trinityhome.org/
Ubuntu Rescue Remix - http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/
There was also a discussion of standlong bootable antivirus CDs earlier
that you might find of interest. A copy is located at:
http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2009-05/0129.html
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 06:15 AM 5/29/2009, you wrote:
Message: 6
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 01:01:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Creating a bootable repair CD without an XP CD
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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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
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