What is it?
It’s the Windows 7 Automated Installation Kit, or WAIK. WAIK is useful for IT Professionals to have a boot disk that will boot up from a CD instead of the computer’s hard drive. With the boot CD, you can boot with a CD and open up, you have the same basic functionality as you would have if you had booted up with a DOS floppy disk. This boot disk also gives you a little extra functionality that I talk about a little later.
Why do I need it?
- Have you ever had a computer blue screen on you and you needed to get a file off the hard drive now?
- Have you noticed that the use of floppy disks as a boot media is all but completely dead?
- Have you ever had a boot sector virus that you needed to clean but couldn’t get to?
- Have you ever wanted to install an OS from the ground up but needed a way to boot the computer first?
- Have you ever just wanted to poke around on the drive without booting up through Windows?
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