Is it possible to boot distro 7 from ISO file?

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Vladimir2011-03-26 13:38:44

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Vladimir, 2011-03-26 13:38:44

Grub2 allows you to boot a Linux distribution or LiveCD directly from an ISO file. Is it possible to load a Windows distribution in the same way, and if the ISO files are on an NTFS partition?

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asm0dey, 2011-03-26
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NeoBCD can boot from ISO. Therefore, in case my Windows crashes again, I have a Windows Install fad that refers to the iso.
True, I have not been using Windows for almost probably more than a year, so it stopped flying.

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rPman, 2011-03-26
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In the general case, it is impossible, since during the operation of this distribution, partitions are cascaded, which windows naturally cannot do (correction, in windows 7 ultimate and it seems profession has boot mechanisms from .vhd images), but if you create a bootable windows image, which means of its bootloader places the image of the installed file system in the RAM disk and starts the operating system from there - it is theoretically possible, rummage around the Internet for the corresponding windows livecd distributions (it seems that a 128mb image for windows xp is walking on torrents)