Felu, he can't access the OS at all, cannot run a process ...
Jarrod, you keep talking about the bartpe disk, but are you sure he knows what it means?
Give him a hint xD, i hope none kill me for copy this from somewhere around on the net xD, but here i let you something about it so you have an idea:
Those were the good old days. The whopping 8 MB or so of storage I carried around doesn't amount to much now, and in any event booting an NTFS-based PC off of DOS on a floppy isn't all that useful (although there are read-only DOS drivers for NTFS available).
Nowadays, if you want to work on a modern Windows system without booting the operating system on it, you want to make yourself a BartPE disk, a free and indispensable support tool from Bart Lagerweij of Kootwijkerbroek in The Netherlands. The PE-Builder program takes as input the location of the Windows installation files and outputs a bootable environment based on it, optionally burning it to the CD.
BartPE has full networking support, including Internet support. What's really cool is that you can add other programs to the bootable CD. BartPE has a "plugin" system for this. Many plug-ins—basically those whose authors allow free copying—are included with the standard BartPE installation, and you just have to check a box to activate it on the disk. Many others, such as McAfee's command line antivirus scanner and the free Ad-Aware SE by Lavasoft, must be downloaded before running PE-Builder. I also added Mozilla to my BartPE disk. Read the BartPE page for links to many other plugins and tools for creating them.
BartPE is the reason I made last week's tip on how to create a set of installation files for Windows with all the service packs and patches slipstreamed in.
After specifying the location of the Windows install files in the main PE-Builder screen, you specify which plugins to install and activate on the disk, then build it and burn it. Certainly, there are many configurations that would cause problems, but on my system PE-Builder burned the CD with no problem. Worst case, you use other software to burn the ISO image.
After you boot the first question you are asked is whether to start network services. If you do, you are then presented with the Network Configurator dialog box where you can specify IP configuration information. BartPE has a Go button from which you can launch programs, command line sessions, read configuration information and more.
As Bart discusses on his page, you need to be careful with the the licensing for the disk . If you use the BartPE disk and a system where the same copy of Windows was installed at the same time you are probably violating your Windows license. In some cases you may only be allowed to use the disk on the same system for which the copy of Windows was sold. Whatever the specifics of your situation, it's your problem, not Bart's.
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Hope it helps
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