Re: Building new Comp ...A few questions

"Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote...

I mean actually Booting & running a XP copy from a DVD-RAM Disk..
I know it would be slow ...but I want something to fall back on if / when
the main OS won't start for whatever ever reason ..
Also I want modern / bigger Capacity equivalent to Floppy Disc.

You can do that by running an XP installation CD or by using something like
BartPE (Bart's Preinstalled Environment (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).

To do that you need a CD-R, DVD-R or DVD+R drive. Many DVD drives handle
all 3 formats, and they are cheap.


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