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Use a Windows emergency CD on Intel Macs System
If you are enjoying your new iMac, MacBook, or Mini, but are afraid that all of your emergency software won't work on the platform, you may want to test some of the free CDs designed for Windows Users.

A few weeks ago at the local user group meeting (MUGOO - Ottawa Ontario), as part of a presentation on Boot Camp and Parallels, the presenter asked the question: Who here thinks I can boot this Intel-based Mac using an emergency CD designed for Windows machines?

We were pretty dubious, but in the end we saw it happen. As I recall, it was the "Ultimate Boot CD for Windows" that we actually saw demoed. Of course, like any time you boot off CD, it was very slow. It was pretty amazing that it worked at all, though. Here's a bit more info on the Windows emergency CDs. I don't know of the state of Intel-compatible disaster recovery software for the Mac -- the market may be difficult with good free competition.

The designers of these packages don't seem to know that they might work on Intel Macs, so don't expect much support. Plus the disk fixing/backup software isn't designed for Mac files systems. But after all else has failed, they might help.
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Use a Windows emergency CD on Intel Macs
Authored by: tim-wood-MacOSXH on May 23, '06 08:58:04AM

If member serves, the UBCD is actually linux-based. In all likelihood, any of the better Linux Live CDs should work. For a good general list:

Distrowatch

I'm fondest of Knoppix. Morphix, DSL (Damn Small Linux) and the upcoming 10.1 version of SUSE are also interesting. If someone with a Intel-based Mac tests out some of them, please post the results!



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Use a Windows emergency CD on Intel Macs
Authored by: dpolzine on May 23, '06 05:35:43PM

Perhaps I'm missing something here? Is the goal to simply boot an Intel Mac with an other than Mac OS X Emergency CD to repair a Windows partion used via Boot Camp? Such a CD would almost certainly be completely unaware of the journaled HFS+ partition used by the Mac OS and any attempt to target such a partition with Windows or Linux based tools would have a frustrating outcome at best, disasterous at worst.

-David



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