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Can't touch harddrive?

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Can't touch harddrive?

Postby Bob » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:49 pm

Hey, I was just wondring if there was a live cd that couldn't possibly harm your harddrive. All of the live cd's that I have tried seem to have to ability to partition your harddrive and I was wondering if there was one that couldn't even see your hard drive and just runs off the cd. This way any information would be saved to a floppy disk or burned to a cd(having 2 cd-rom drives).
I am fairly new to these but looking for a fast loading live cd that doesn't have the ability to access your harddrive, is it easy to modify one of these live cd's to remove these features if there isn't one live this?
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Postby anony » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:43 pm

>Without partitioning

Hi
If you have 1 GB RAM / more, you can try Knoppix with the following cheat code:

knoppix toram

Or you can use smaller customized knoppix, ie Damn Small Linux with the same cheat. (need 256 MB RAM). This will load the entire CD into RAM disk.

LiveCD only need temporary space on hard disk for faster operation, and will not harm Windows partition/data.

Another way: disable/remove HD data on BIOS. Press Del or other buttons during boot and modify the BIOS setting. Please write down the original hard disk setting on the BIOS (cylinder, head, sector, etc). When you want to use Windows XP, you can restore the original setting using "hard disk auto detection" on BIOS.

>Without partitioning tools.

You can modify / customize Knoppix and remove all hard disk tools, such as cfdisk, fdisk, etc.
anony
 
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Postby Bob » Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:59 pm

anony wrote:You can modify / customize Knoppix and remove all hard disk tools, such as cfdisk, fdisk, etc.

I would like to do this, can it be esily done? I don't have alot of experience with these kind of things. Is there a version that I can download that has these already removed?
Bob
 
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