Boot XP from a mem stick & run Phoenix?

[jiberjaber]

I am stuck with my work's laptop whilst wotking away for about 2-3 days a week. This means I miss stick time on the simulator

The laptop is pretty tried down, but will boot CD/DVD and memory sticks....

So I had a thought about booting WinXP from a mem stick and running Phoenix from that also.

Did a bit of searching and there are free programmes to take your WinXP install CD and make a bootable memory stick.

Trouble is, this is as far as I can get - there are some things called plug ins (as part of the install software I have found) which allow additional untilities to be installed if you have the original media, such as Nero or Ghost etc.

These plug ins come with a few config files called "PE Builder plug-ins" but one would need to be created for Phoenix in order that it could be installed on the memory stick with the WinXP files.

This is where I get stuck

Anyone else tried this? Ade - any chance of the chaps looking at what/how the file would be created?

Cheers

(Howto explaining it all is located here: http://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09...ket/index.html )

[Ade_Law]

i will talk to the boys at phoenix and find out

Ade

[ChrisB]

Drop the Laptop from a good height and get work to buy you a new one,,

Not much help i know,but a good idea

[jiberjaber]

Drop the Laptop from a good height and get work to buy you a new one,,

Not much help i know,but a good idea

LOL nice idea... but it will just come back in teh same locked down work laptop build as the broken one


Ade - thanks

[Biggles]

If you laptop is a works one then chances are if you have good system admins....they will allow you to plug in usb pens etc but group policies will not allow you to add exe files...etc etc....win pe which is 'windows preinstallation enviroment' is just a disc that system builders use to create a set of discs with os plus other programs on instead of loading programs one by one.

Bart Pe is another version of this.

Tread carefully when adding programs to 'works' systems as techies tend to get irate when u plug back into the network and it syncronizes unauthorised stuff back to their server.

if you can access it as a stand alone you will have abetter chance of the install.

Can you not put phoenix files on a portable hdd a run it from there ie copy the phoenix program files from 1 pc
to the portable hdd....NOT SURE IF THIS VIOLATES LICENSING WITH PHOENIX AS TO HOW MANY PC'S YOU CAN INSTALL IT ON? Thats if you have multiple installs.






The latest craze with companies at the moment is to install a program that monitors your usage and grabs screen shots of certain activities you get up to. This in turn is downloaded back to their server for them to view when you plug back into their network whether it be onsite or remotely.

I have been selling this equipment for nearly 2 years and it is by far my biggest seller.

Check these out...http://www.forensicsoftware.co.uk/FSL_Business.htm

and http://www.securus-software.com/products.php#corporate

Big Brother is watching you!!!!!!! LOL

[Kwickkwack]

The latest craze with companies at the moment is to install a program that monitors your usage and grabs screen shots of certain activities you get up to. This in turn is downloaded back to their server for them to view when you plug back into their network whether it be onsite or remotely.

I have been selling this equipment for nearly 2 years and it is by far my biggest seller.

Check these out...http://www.forensicsoftware.co.uk/FSL_Business.htm

and http://www.securus-software.com/products.php#corporate

Big Brother is watching you!!!!!!! LOL

So it is You is it

[jiberjaber]

If you laptop is a works one then chances are if you have good system admins....they will allow you to plug in usb pens etc but group policies will not allow you to add exe files...etc etc....win pe which is 'windows preinstallation enviroment' is just a disc that system builders use to create a set of discs with os plus other programs on instead of loading programs one by one.

Bart Pe is another version of this.

You're sort of right... there are restrictions on installing .exe files, but this is not what this is about.

For the benifit of others...

Any *PE programme is just about making the equivelant of a livecd of an operating system, so you dont touch the original installation... think of it like taking a good working hard drive out of a PC and replacing it with another with something else on so you can have a mess around... then replacing the good working hard drive back again when you want to return to normal...

Using a PE programme, instead of taking out and replacing hard drives, you are doing it all on a CD/DVD or memory stick (or even an external hard drive). As long as the PC you are using allows booting from alternative devices.

You install the PE software not on the works PC, but your own... build the OS etc as you want using the PE software, then plug the device (memory stick in my case) in to the works laptop, boot up and hey presto... the company may own the laptop, but you have it working how you want to.

So... no more lonley nights in the hotel room without the roar of a nitro and the chattering of blades LOL

Well thats the plan anyhow

[jiberjaber]

In fact as I type, I am sat here entering this from linux booted on the works laptop from a memory key. Just as a proof of concept

[kevinh]

im glad my company dont look at there laptop then i would hung drawn and quarted before 10am,

[Biggles]

im glad my company dont look at there laptop then i would hung drawn and quarted before 10am,

How do you know they don't....they could deploy the program via an msi and you would not notice it being installed unless you stared at the screen during start up!!!! LOL

[kevinh]

as off yet they havent had the laptop to install any software had from new from the moment it came out of the box.
mind you as long as the director has porn on laptop so can his staff


"pot calling the ketle black springs to mind"

[Nutz]

I say boo to Biggles software!!!!!

Never liked the big brover stuff, so don't get me started...............black boxes in cars to chagre people spring stright to mind!

Sorry for side tracking.

Where were we,,,,,Pheonix... yer, love it, great sim ain't it.

[Biggles]

I say boo to Biggles software!!!!!

Never liked the big brover stuff, so don't get me started...............black boxes in cars to chagre people spring stright to mind!

Sorry for side tracking.

Where were we,,,,,Pheonix... yer, love it, great sim ain't it.

I know who you are and I saw what you did! LMAO