I have come across a lot Live CDs for different variants of Linux. I was just wondering if the same thing can be done for windows OS. And how can this be done? Please need it urgently.

I cant say i know of any and i very much doubt they exist as windows is massive and a collection of a lot of small programs instead of one or two larger ones like linux.

Can i ask why you need a windows one so urgently? If you explain the problem im sure I or (more likely) someone else will know a solution.

IF you simply need access to a hard drive (eg your OS is corrupt and wont start but you need to get files from the hard drive) then a linux disk will do the trick.

Let us know the problem and someone will help out

I use windows XP Pro on my laptop. But I want switch completely to Linux (Fedora/CentOS) but i want windows live cd so that i can use it whenever I need some functionalities only available in windows.

I have across a program called PEBuilder3110 which u can use. And also I want to create a live disk for win98.

Sometimes I have problems with flash drives that cannot be formatted with XP but can be done with win 98 so i need to create a win98 live cd for that purpose. i have attached a copy pebuilder.

There's a program called WINE for Linux which supports many programs that would normally run on only Windows, on Linux. Just download the one that's right for the Distro you're gonna be using.

Do you REALLY need the tools Windows offers? There is probably a lovely (Maybe even open-source) Linux alternative... Like there are SO many text editors on Linux that are just lovely, possibly even better than windows. If it's a Windows XP only compatible program or application... You're scr***d. If it was a device you wanted in particular that only ran on Windows, there are options for importing the drivers, just google "ndiswrapper". I've never heard of PEBuilder3110, and to be honest, I probably can't be bothered. Although I have heard of WINE which Truefusion mentioned, as I have used it to great effect. I hope what I said helped

This post has been edited by keri-j: Nov 20 2006, 11:05 PM

i fink u can use that cd 2 fidn ur pcs password i forgot how tho

you can always create 3 partitions on your hard drive, on for linux, one for linux swap, and one for Windows. Its not that hard to do .

I've always wanted to partition the Hard-Drive on my laptop so I could put something like Auditor on it, but I've never known how... which is a shame because I love Linux. Any chance you could write a tutorial how Ghostrider?

Actually I have some faulty flash drives. When you insert it into your PC, it detects the drives. But when you try

to open it, an error message appears that says drive not formated and gives you the option to format the drive

but the format doesn't work. When you check the properties of the drive, its shows the capacity as zero or unknown.

I use the win98 OS to resolve the problem, by downloading the drivers of the flash drive and formatting it.

This the main reason I want the win98 live CD.