Hi,

Does the following support booting xp from read only media?

microsoft steady state
clean state 5
deepfreeze
shadow copy

Yes ewf support but not efficient due to ram usage problem (not possible to do alot of writes). fbwf does not seems to support (keep looping reboot) Any idea to solve ewf ram usage problem (makes the xp like normal harddrive booting) are welcome.

You might want to wait a bit until boot-land is back online, then check the ETboot project:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3890

In the meantime google cache:
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:ppZ2W...howtopic%3D3890

jaclaz

hi jaclaz,

the project seems good but does not work with propriety drive image...

have you tried fbwf on read only booting? why fbwf always loop back boot again and again when ewf has no problem? and since fbwf direct overything to ram

NO, I do not use fbwf or XP on read only media.

I just pointed you to a working project.

As I see it it is a better approach to start from something working and later add your own variations than starting from something that does not (your current looping, failing to boot setup).

However, you completely fail to give ANY meaningful detail about:

• what you have done/are doing
• what you wish to achieve

In other words, instead of approaching the problem in a "generic" way, like "I want to boot with fbwf", it is usually more productive to approach it in a specific way, like (just as an example):

• I would like to boot a XP SP2 in read only mode.
• I would this to run <name the program/programs or scope of the build, like data recovery or web surfing>
• I would like to have the build on <CD, HD, USB stick, whatever media>.
• The media is <IDE/ATA, SCSI, SATA, USB, Firewire, whatever>.
• The target machine has <128,256, 512 Mb, 1 Gb, 2Gb, 3Gb, etc.> of RAM.
• The approximate size of the build/image/media is <256, 512 Mb, 1, 2, 3, 4 5, etc. Gb>
• <I cannot afford/I can afford> to buy a License for third-party Commercial software
• etc.
• etc.

It is possible that there is another solution to achieve the goal you have in mind that you didn't even think about.

jaclaz