Will Live CD alter my computer?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Will Live CD alter my computer?
started by: afflusso

Posted by afflusso on Aug. 29 2006,14:59

When I used the Live CD on my other computer, it worked OK. But when I started again without it, the Windows 98 had to enter safe mode and had a few new errors (not that I cared).

Now I am considering to try the Live CD on my newer computer, but I don't want it change anything. If I put in the CD and turn on the newer computer, then will it run DSL without altering my XP at all?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 30 2006,03:20

This depends on how you use your cd.
In your case, it sounds like you tried to access your hard drive contents and _possibly_ messed something up.
Though I would place a greater bet that that win98 wasn't shut down properly.

WinXP uses ntfs by default, and DSL can only have read-only access to it (unless of course, you have some vfat partitions or download some extra ntfs utilities to DSL)

So all-in-all, it should be safe.