I'm doing some work on a laptop for someone at the moment, who wants all the data taken off. If we were talking about a desktop, I would simply put the HDD into my main rig, as the laptop is totally defunct. But I lack the converter to do so, nor have the time to pick one up. So I'm thinking of taking the HDD out and putting it in my older laptop, then putting a bootable version of linux onto a CD / Flash Drive, and copying it to a CD, or patching it over the network to my main rig (which is preferable tbh) So here's my question. Is there a version of linux that will boot off a cd, onto the technical equivilant of a toaster (733MHz, 128mb RAM), be able to read an NTFS hard disk, and copy files over the network (to another NTFS partition on my desktop) OR burn it to a CD on the spot (Which would mean me swopping the CD drives aswell) Or indeed, is there an easier way?
I believe BartPE will do exactly what your asking. In fact, by using BartPE, I have actually done what your wanting to do!!
