I'm going to take this to the "next level" for Chuck.
Running with NO hard drive only proves that "can" be done,
and that nothing from the original "system" hard drive is needed
to "get access" to what ever "other hardware" will be found...
(Remember, this is all done IN the original system --- never
even opening the case...)
In a real world senerio, you would leave the original HD hooked
up and boot from the XPPE CD...
Data recovery can be done to a USB flash/key drive, or (if XPPE
was "built" with it) Nero "on-board" (installed on the XPPE bootCD),
using a CD/DVD burner, if available. (For lots and lots of stuff.)
As far as the original question, when running as the XPPE Admin,
I can only ass-u-me that ALL files would be available unless they
were encrypted... (I don't bother with that sort of thing as I never
wanted to be "locked out" of my own stuff...)
BTW, It was me telling Wayne I ran with no HD... I was testing
two CPUs for freezing, and did not want to corrupt the HD, so I left
it un-hooked and booted with XPPE for testing...
Rick Glazier
chuck typed:
Remember, I most often do not get to work on their computer until
after their data has become protected and after it will no longer
boot into Windows.
From: "Wayne Johnson"
BartPe or XpPe. They both boot their own WinXp. The drive almost
never has to be removed & configured as a slave. Saving tons of time
& permitting clients to run the better file system NTFS.
chuck typed:
I do not have any opportunity to prepare in advance for non accessbile data.
From: "Wayne Johnson"
You're that busy? BTW if the data is available if & when the drive is
pulled & configured as a slave then it's NOT non accessible now is
it? Just yesterday I had some one write me "Using XPPE with NO HD,
and WEB mail on my DSL with DHCP..." The point is that the installed
Windows doesn't have to boot to use BartPe or XpPe. The only thing
that is req'd is that one can set an optical drive to boot from.
