Re: how to run windows xp from a CD-ROM,not from a hard disk.



mitul wrote:
how to run windows xp from a CD-ROM,not from a hard disk.
NOTE:-- not how to boot from CD.

Well, you can't. Windows is forever writing temporary files which it can't
do to a CD-ROM.

And even if you could (CDROM-RW?), the access time would kill you; CD-ROMs
have an access time about 500 times slower than a hard disk.


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