Booting from an image

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Booting from an image, A virtual Drive that loads before the OS

tjcinnamon View Member Profile	Jul 27 2008, 09:20 AM Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 194800 OS: none	Is there a piece of software available where I could load any bootable image on a thumbdrive and have it act as a virtual drive before the OS loads? There are a few bootable images that I want to run but all of them have to be burned to a CD/DVD in order to have them load before the OS. Thanks, JOe K.

jaclaz View Member Profile	Jul 27 2008, 09:42 AM Post #2
MSFN Junkie Group: Software Developers Posts: 3624 Joined: 23-July 04 From: Italy Member No.: 25215 OS: none	WITHIN limits, grub4dos: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showforum=66 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 NT based images need RAMDISK booting, DOS based ones generally work, Linux based ones may need "adjustments". jaclaz

tjcinnamon View Member Profile	Jul 27 2008, 09:12 PM Post #3
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 194800 OS: none	Is it possible while using Grub4Dos that I could lose access to my XP OS (if I screw it up)? I should probably learn how to do this anyway. I will look for a good tutorial on this site. The other thing I was thinking was to format my USB stick as UDF or CDFS and try to have it read that way. With UltraISO I can write (burn) the image to USB stick the problem is the File System.

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