is it possible to some how or another put Win 2000 on a cd so that That cd can be botted off of and go into windows as if ir was on a harddrive. I do data recovery and would like to have a cd that has windows, my data recovery software, and nero installed on a cd as if it were on a harddrive. That way I could boot off the CD and have access to the customer harddrive, if a burner is available burn their data to a cd.
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Windows 2000 on CD
- Thread starter NTesla
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tlindsay42
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- Sep 15, 2003
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NTesla
If you were to produce a Windows 2000 bootable CD you would have problems moving it from machine to machine due to differences in network cards, video cards, chipsets, hard drive controllers etc.
A much better way would be to use data recovery and utility CD such as that available from
If you were to create a Symantec ghost image of a PC for use elsewhere as TAllen8585 suggests, it would have the same problems as a direct Windows 2000 bootable CD.
John
If you were to produce a Windows 2000 bootable CD you would have problems moving it from machine to machine due to differences in network cards, video cards, chipsets, hard drive controllers etc.
A much better way would be to use data recovery and utility CD such as that available from
If you were to create a Symantec ghost image of a PC for use elsewhere as TAllen8585 suggests, it would have the same problems as a direct Windows 2000 bootable CD.
John
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Wolluf
This sounds like what I need. However I do not have a XP Home or Professional, or Server 2003 installation CD. It also sounds a little complicated having to write your own plugins. I know how to program but I'm not that advanced a programmer that I would be able to do that.
Everyone else
I understand the issue with the drivers and CD, I did not think about that. Is their a way to tell the operating system that the drivers are somewhere else. Some how tell the OS that the drivers are on drive Z and have drive Z be a USB pen drive. I also relize that the pen drive would have to be assigned drive Z so that it would be the same on a system that has to Hard drives and two CD-Roms and a system that only has one hard drive and one CD-Rom. Is it possible to load a driver for a pen drive and staticly tell the OS that the Pen drive is drive Z?
This sounds like what I need. However I do not have a XP Home or Professional, or Server 2003 installation CD. It also sounds a little complicated having to write your own plugins. I know how to program but I'm not that advanced a programmer that I would be able to do that.
Everyone else
I understand the issue with the drivers and CD, I did not think about that. Is their a way to tell the operating system that the drivers are somewhere else. Some how tell the OS that the drivers are on drive Z and have drive Z be a USB pen drive. I also relize that the pen drive would have to be assigned drive Z so that it would be the same on a system that has to Hard drives and two CD-Roms and a system that only has one hard drive and one CD-Rom. Is it possible to load a driver for a pen drive and staticly tell the OS that the Pen drive is drive Z?
I suspect everyone was giving you a serious answer to emergency data recovery in general, and not to a very particular case.
Think no pen drive, no specific drive assignments, a general need to recover lost partitions, Folders, Files and passwords on random systems.
If you really are looking for a CD bootable image of NT 5 or 5 plus, it is arguably doable under XP as a recovery tool, but wolluf has already linked this.
For pure Win2k as boot, the answer is no.
Think no pen drive, no specific drive assignments, a general need to recover lost partitions, Folders, Files and passwords on random systems.
If you really are looking for a CD bootable image of NT 5 or 5 plus, it is arguably doable under XP as a recovery tool, but wolluf has already linked this.
For pure Win2k as boot, the answer is no.
I have 2 options for you to consider:
1) Laptop configured with your tools and CD burner. External drive enclosure, either USB2 or firewire. Attach drive from dead system to laptop using external enclosure.
2) Emergency Recovery Disk or full set of Administrator's Pak from
Option 2 is more expensive but depends on volume of work you are doing and how serious you want to get.
Another source for recovery software if you are not already aware of it is R-Studio from or
1) Laptop configured with your tools and CD burner. External drive enclosure, either USB2 or firewire. Attach drive from dead system to laptop using external enclosure.
2) Emergency Recovery Disk or full set of Administrator's Pak from
Option 2 is more expensive but depends on volume of work you are doing and how serious you want to get.
Another source for recovery software if you are not already aware of it is R-Studio from or
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