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laurentio
31st January 2009, 11:37 PM
Live OS or bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or VISTA installation/setup CD-DVD are very suitable for special PC maintenance tasks or emergency situations.

A Live OS bootable DVD will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (at least 800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS file system support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.

Here it comes a list with the best Live bootable OS we have ever used so far, in no particular order:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.slax.org/
http://kanotix.com/index.html
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
http://cnasoft.com/index.php?page=liveoswin
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html
http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm

Download any of the above, burn the image with Nero, UltraISO, PowerISO etc then boot your system from the CD drive.