live CD

[Basil Chupin]

On 27/03/13 22:56, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> A friend has a Windows OS virus, so I'm going to try and back up his
> data.

The first obvious question is: how do you, or he, know that he has a virus?

If he does have a virus it must have been detected by a virus scanner he 
has installed in which case why didn't that scanner remove the virus 
after it was detected?


>   I was looking at:
>
> To create a LiveCd

Which leads to the second question: what exactly is it that you want to 
do with a Live CD (of any description) - to backup his data you say?

But how are you going to do this? And onto what are you going to backup 
his "data" (what exactly is his "data")?

And thirdly, why do you want a Live CD? Why not use the SystemRescueCD? 
Afterall, you will need to mount his Windows partition(s) and then copy 
that "data" somewhere - and you will have a much better chance of doing 
this with something like SystemRescueCD than a Live CD of anything-Ubuntu.

My 20c worth.

[pruned]

BC

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