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Is it possible?
I ran into a situation last night where XP wouldn't boot past the splash screen. It wasn't a boot loader problem at all. I couldn't get into the recovery console or ANYTHING. Somehow I managed to boot to command prompt from the XP CD and was able to to a chkdsk, fixmbr, etc. Nothing worked.
The fix? I took the computer to my house, took the HDD out, put it in my computer, booted up and extracted their files off (docs, pics, music, etc). Then, did a fresh format. Now... all is well.
But had I had a bootable copy of XP and Ubuntu (for whatever I need) handy on a flash drive I could have done everything last night, since they only had about 3gb worth of data.
I know individually this is possible. But I'm questioning if dual booting off of a flash drive is something that is an option.
Thoughts?
I ran into a situation last night where XP wouldn't boot past the splash screen. It wasn't a boot loader problem at all. I couldn't get into the recovery console or ANYTHING. Somehow I managed to boot to command prompt from the XP CD and was able to to a chkdsk, fixmbr, etc. Nothing worked.
The fix? I took the computer to my house, took the HDD out, put it in my computer, booted up and extracted their files off (docs, pics, music, etc). Then, did a fresh format. Now... all is well.
But had I had a bootable copy of XP and Ubuntu (for whatever I need) handy on a flash drive I could have done everything last night, since they only had about 3gb worth of data.
I know individually this is possible. But I'm questioning if dual booting off of a flash drive is something that is an option.
Thoughts?