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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Hi folks
does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
jjoensuu wrote:
Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
It cannot be run from a cd, nor can it be run from an external drive without
some 'fiddling' I have seen a card reader to IDE device that its info states can be used to run an o/s from a card. A poster in a win2k group states he has used such, allthough not without some problems "jjoensuu" wrote in message ups.com... Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
I think this kind of thing may be possible using some kind of PXE Boot solution if you are in a networked enviroment. "jjoensuu" wrote: Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Knoppix will do this from a CD, connects straight to the internet etc.
You may be able to do the same things using the built in apps. "jjoensuu" wrote in message ups.com... Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Knoppix is a Linux distribution and runs Linux without installation to a
HD - It is an excellent "tool" for recovery. A "complete" version of XP cannot be run from a CD - BartPE "copies" a minimum XP files to provid for a troubleshooting environment. Win PE (Windows pre-environment) can be used to provide XP and Vista capability - it provides Vista's repair utility. However when prepared as a XP/Vista OS it is "time bombed" to prevent continual use in place of a normal XP/Vista installation "jjoensuu" wrote in message ups.com... Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Per AJR:
Knoppix is a Linux distribution and runs Linux without installation to a HD - It is an excellent "tool" for recovery. A "complete" version of XP cannot be run from a CD - BartPE "copies" a minimum XP files to provid for a troubleshooting environment. But doesn't it need at least some hard drive space somewhere? Seems like it stores info between boots... or am I imagining that? -- PeteCresswell |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
When someone asks "can I run Win XP without a disk drive", and you answer
"you can run Knoppix without a disk drive", you're not answering the question. You may as well have answered "you can eat ice cream without a disk drive." "dobey" wrote in message ... Knoppix will do this from a CD, connects straight to the internet etc. You may be able to do the same things using the built in apps. "jjoensuu" wrote in message ups.com... Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
"sbb78247" wrote in message
. nl... Alfred Einstein wrote: When someone asks "can I run Win XP without a disk drive", and you answer "you can run Knoppix without a disk drive", you're not answering the question. You may as well have answered "you can eat ice cream without a disk drive." linux has made him stupid, no? Not really - the thread was drifting in the direction of what COULD be run from a CD... |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Gordon wrote:
"sbb78247" wrote in message . nl... Alfred Einstein wrote: When someone asks "can I run Win XP without a disk drive", and you answer "you can run Knoppix without a disk drive", you're not answering the question. You may as well have answered "you can eat ice cream without a disk drive." linux has made him stupid, no? Not really - the thread was drifting in the direction of what COULD be run from a CD... *Blink* --are you reading the same thread I am? |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
"Damian" wrote in message
reenews.net... Gordon wrote: "sbb78247" wrote in message . nl... Alfred Einstein wrote: When someone asks "can I run Win XP without a disk drive", and you answer "you can run Knoppix without a disk drive", you're not answering the question. You may as well have answered "you can eat ice cream without a disk drive." linux has made him stupid, no? Not really - the thread was drifting in the direction of what COULD be run from a CD... *Blink* --are you reading the same thread I am? Absolutely - I contributed to it..... |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
Gordon wrote:
"Damian" wrote in message reenews.net... Gordon wrote: "sbb78247" wrote in message . nl... Alfred Einstein wrote: When someone asks "can I run Win XP without a disk drive", and you answer "you can run Knoppix without a disk drive", you're not answering the question. You may as well have answered "you can eat ice cream without a disk drive." linux has made him stupid, no? Not really - the thread was drifting in the direction of what COULD be run from a CD... *Blink* --are you reading the same thread I am? Absolutely - I contributed to it..... Funny, I don't see a post by you that 'contributed'... |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
jjoensuu wrote in news:1194347478.021117.321440
@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com: Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? There's a pirate "windows XP Live CD", but a:It's pirate and b:it's possibly horribly infected with malware But that seems to prove it's possible to work. I've never tried it. I don't have any need for a winXP live cd, and I'm careful about what software runs on this machine. |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
In article . com, jjoensuu wrote: Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Absolutely. It's called a PE (preinstalled environment) and there are freeware tools to build such a CD yourself. You must own a licensed copy of an XP install CD to make it. One Bart-PE-based project is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (http://www.ubcd4win.com) which includes a whole suite of pre-installed applications - focused mainly on recovery of a failing system, but useable for web browsing, file transfer, etc. Without a hard drive you can even run (portable) applications from a USB flash drive, since it has built-in mass storage drivers. Even on a 256 MB low-end system you end up with ~120 MB of free RAM in which to run stuff, which is plenty for single, no-install applications. |
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Running Windows XP on a system with no hard drive?
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 12:11:18 PM UTC+1, jjoensuu wrote:
Hi folks does anyone know if it is possible to run Windows XP on a system without a hard drive? I was thinking of creating a 'hard-drive-less-system' running Windows XP, but does the O/S require one, or can it be run purely from a CD? Is this type of thing feasible? Or if you know of any place that sells such a system I would be interested. JJ ccboot will do this, it is cheap and ok for me |
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