TSGL: Rescue data

[The Computer Whisperer]

boot ultimate boot CD with a largeish capacity thumb drive plugged in and
copy to that

2008/5/16 Alan Mitchell <alan_mitchell at mindspring.com>:

> Today's PC World tips contained the following information that lets you
> easily create a portable CD/DVD burner on a thumb drive. Basically you
> download the ZIP file and unzip it to a folder on your thumb drive and you
> have the option to burn ISO, data and audio disks. But of course it assumes
> that some version of Windows IS running, so it probably wouldn't have
> solved
> the problem of the dead system, but it's valuable nonetheless.
>
> Alan
>
> May 16th, 2008
>
> * Today's Picks:
>
>
> DeepBurner Free Portable
> Version: 1.9.0.74
> File Size: 3003k
> License Type: Free
> Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98
>
> DeepBurner Free Portable is one of the programs I never do an IT support
> gig
> without. If I need to burn off some data to CD/DVD before working on an
> infected or otherwise sketchy Windows system, all I do is insert the thumb
> drive I installed it to,  click its icon, and I'm ready to burn. If you're
> not familiar with "portable" apps, they're portable because they don't rely
> on the Windows registry for storing settings. Instead they either forgo
> settings altogether, booting with the default settings each time, or (more
> likely) save the settings to whatever the directory the program is run
> from.
> Reliance on the registry for storing settings and registration info, which
> started with Windows 95 for maintenance and version control reasons, is why
> you must reinstall applications whenever you reinstall Windows.
> DeepBurner Free Portable burns data discs, as well as ISO images and has
> worked well for me over several months. It's a program every tech
> should have in their emergency kit.
> --Jon L. Jacobi
>
> Go to the download page now:
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,70945-order,1-page,1/description.h
> tml?tk=nl_ddxdwn<http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,70945-order,1-page,1/description.html?tk=nl_ddxdwn>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Don Penlington
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:49 PM
> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
> Subject: Re: TSGL: Rescue data
>
> Ian wrote:
> >Have you thought of just taking the drive out and putting it in another
> >working machine as a slave? That or have you tried
> >ubuntu>>
>
>
> Yes, but I was looking for an easier solution. One I could do on the spot.
>
> Alan's idea of running Ubuntu from a thumb drive might work I suppose.
>
> But I have my doubts because
>
> (a) will an old bios recognise a USB thumb drive as a boot drive? (probably
> not) and
>
> (b) the instructions for creating it look so complicated it's hardly worth
> the bother---and is highly likely to go wrong in any event. I usually find
> the more complex the procedure, the less likely it will work (or the
> tutorial will likely miss some vital point or be ambiguous in some small
> but
> vital detail). In any event. it looks like it has to be created on the
> computer on which you intend to use it---and that requires access to XP,
> which defeats the purpose. Moreover, I'd have to learn Ubuntu, which I have
> no intention of doing.
>
> Thanks Alan, but I think I'll leave that one to those of you at the cutting
> edge.
>
> It might work though if Ubuntu comes on a bootable CD. (But I'd still have
> to learn it).
>
> Don Penlington
>
>
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