On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment.
Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?
And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do* have to be aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.
Hirens has been around for quite a while, and gets updated periodically. its a all-in-one CD or USB boot full of mostly open source tools, can boot into memtest86, a linux kernel/shell/gui environment, or into a 'bartPE' mini-XP environment. freedos too, I think.
hirens themselves only distributes the kit to build it, since it involves some licensed software, but pre-built ones are available from somewhat marginal sources (bit-torrent, etc).
you could, of course, simply use a plain BartPE boot, too, that you built yourself (Bart provides a toolkit for creating a winPE style environment). you need access to a Windows desktop system somewhere to build one of these, along with the Windows XP CD to get the required files.