Creating a Recovery and Bootable CD/DVD?

[GamerZon360]

Hey Guys, I was attending my A+ classes at my college and I have been hearing alot about the Recovery and Bootable CD/DVD. I have heard that these can be custom made and you can even have Multi-OS and have all the utilties you need on the CD/DVD. I have also heard that you can have something called a "Live OS'. What is this anyway? My question is if I want to make my own Custom Windows Recovery and Bootable CD/DVD, Where do I start. I have never done this before and I really want to try this out.

So if some can point me to the right direction, it would really help me out in my A+ Class. So if anyone has any info, please let me know.

P.S. Fusion

[+BudMan MVC]

There many many different liveCDs, most every linux distro allows you to try the OS without doing anything to your hard drive, ie just running off the CD/DVD.

In the windows world to get you started with creating your own recovery/live windows based CD I would suggest BartsPE

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD

1 CD that should be in every techs bag -- http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Here is a windows based one

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair, restore, or diagnose almost any computer problem. Our goal is to be the ultimate free hardware and software diagnostic tool. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows?. UBCD4Win is based on Bart's PE?. Bart's PE? builds a Windows? "pre-install" environment CD, basically Windows? booted from CD. We include many free hardware and software diagnostic tools that allow you to fix almost any problem you will face with your computer. With network support, the ability to modify NTFS volumes, recover deleted files, create new NTFS volumes, scan hard drives for viruses, etc. this project includes almost everything you need to repair your system problems. This project has been put together to be the ultimate recovery cd and not a replacement OS (Operating System). Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the latest version of the project.

Here is a script to put a bunch of linux liveCDs onto 1 DVD

http://www.linux.com/articles/52927

Live CDs do a great job of advertising Linux distributions. In addition to general-purpose live CD distributions, there are lots of task-oriented live CDs. Wouldn't it be great if you could carry multiple live CDs on one DVD disc? Nautopia.net has put up a script that you can use to make a custom DVD to boot multiple live CDs.

The Nautopia script currently supports Knoppix, Kanotix, Kurumin, Livux, MEPIS, ProMEPIS, Slax, Aurox, BerryLinux, Basilisk, Adios, PCLinuxOS, MandrakeMove, Gnoppix, RiP, SystemRescueCD, Ultimate Boot CD, and INSERT distributions. Grab a couple of live CDs of any of the above listed distributions, download the script, and let's get started.

[GamerZon360]

THX!