preinstalled environments to rescue your machine

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:58 pm

I followed up the "boot Oasys into dos" post, and went through some preinstalled environments. Particularly XP. Well, I came up with Bart's PE builder, which looks fairly decent and is free. It legally builds a bootable XP disk from an already installed XP, or the XP CD.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Basically, it builds a bootable ISO file with bare minimum system files, so you can boot from it to rescue your system. In other words, it's like an advanced boot disk builder. I still haven't fiddled with it, but it looks promising for sudden system failures or for backing up a crashed primary OS disk. (like Nestor needs to do)

Has anyone had experience with these preinstalled environments? I'm thinking of building myself one just in case.

Cochise · Post by **Cochise** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:41 am

Sorry, can't help.

I ever moved hdd to other machines, for data recovering tasks.

At the moment I'm using Acronis True Image;
it has some bug running with the raid controller I've in use, but do work; it can get me out of a scrape.
My machine is running a restored image and it goes pretty fine.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 4:39 am

my Scope system is currently running from a 1GB flash disk that's mounted to an IDE drive connector. There are some native apps too on it and it has 400MB space left currently.

I originally aquired it because I wanted something silent, but it's performing really well - also had Win2K server and Linux on it.

this would make a great rescue disk as boots anything (faking a HD) and you can easily take it with you (it's just a 1.5 inch disk connector)

cheers, tom

Lima · Post by **Lima** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:59 am

Tom, can you point me to your fabulous alien artifact?

Post by **garyb** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:39 am

the windows install disk will do that as well....

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:20 am

Here's another one: backup and recover and file system, change NT passwords etc: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com . The Live CD allows for internet access, reads/writes NTFS etc, features partitioning tools and some more...

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:06 pm

On 2006-01-07 07:59, Lima wrote:
Tom, can you point me to your fabulous alien artifact?

it's not the same brand but looks identical<a href=http://www.pretec.com/product/SSD/Indus ... iniide.htm> to this one</a>
mine was 149 Euro for 1 GB (about 6 month back)

if you use a simple flash disk with an adapter and run the OS from it, then write access is very likely to constantly hit the same memory locations, which will 'wear them out'.
To prevent this, there's a special controller included to remap physical memory in a way that access is evenly distributed across the medium.
For pure data storage that's not necessary.

cheers, Tom

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:43 pm

What I really hate about XP is that when you install it, if you are using SATA RAID or SCSI you can only see the drive if you load the drivers from the A: drive. There is no way to browse to another location such as a CDROM drive or another drive. Why the hell did they make it like that?

On 2006-01-07 08:08, stardust wrote:

This was particularly helpfull since i had decided not to build this PC with a legacy floppy disk drive.