W***s Knoppix

Does anyone know of a W***s cd that will do what Knoppix does? That is, boot into W***s from a cd, autoconfigure, contain lots of apps, and by default at least not touch the hard drive?

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...boot into W***s from a CD, autoconfigure...
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Nothing like that exists now (to my knowledge), but Microsoft is known to be working on a MINIMAL OS-boot-from-CD, primarily for rescue purposes. Since the current version 5 (2000/XP) eschews any DOS underpinnings, this makes sense.

It's also pretty clear that this would be nothing more than SAFE-mode-from-CD with backup/rescue/restore utilities. It would take SOME work to make it anything more -- and would be so against any documented MS licensing as to be ludicrous.

"Nothing like that exists now (to my knowledge), but Microsoft is known to be working on a MINIMAL OS-boot-from-CD, primarily for rescue purposes."

Well, that would be a pertty good idea since, for now, the only way to recuperate data from a really fucked up Windows partition is to read it from Linux.

Now, if this doesn't make you sick of Microsft's nonsense, what does?

GP
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there is something at http://kickme.to/risolutore

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When I clicked on this link this msg appeared:

The page you were trying to access was not found
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actually, this does exist. it is called Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) and, as far as I know, isn't for purchase or free download.

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... it is called Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment)...
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That's what I was making reference to in my earlier post -- but I couldn't remember the name...

google search microsoft embedded xp

Microsoft advertises a bootable embedded xp cd disc using El Torito specifications
for building embedded applications, but might have other applications.

There is something about here ,
not tested.

Wow! That's cool! I didn't know you could do that...Thanks for the info.