{"id":560,"date":"2009-06-07T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/06\/07\/windows-7-bootable-cd.aspx"},"modified":"2009-06-07T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T15:12:31","slug":"windows-7-bootable-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Bootable CD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>What is it?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Windows 7 Automated Installation Kit, or WAIK.&#160; WAIK is useful for IT Professionals to have a boot disk that will boot up from a CD instead of the computer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard drive.&#160; 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.&#160; This boot disk also gives you a little extra functionality that I talk about a little later. <\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Why do I need it?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you ever had a computer blue screen on you and you needed to get a file off the hard drive now? <\/li>\n<li>Have you noticed that the use of floppy disks as a boot media is all but completely dead? <\/li>\n<li>Have you ever had a boot sector virus that you needed to clean but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to? <\/li>\n<li>Have you ever wanted to install an OS from the ground up but needed a way to boot the computer first? <\/li>\n<li>Have you ever just wanted to poke around on the drive without booting up through Windows?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/mikeblane.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!25FBED687A2B871F!330.entry#comment\" href=\"http:\/\/mikeblane.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!25FBED687A2B871F!330.entry#comment\">http:\/\/mikeblane.spaces.live.com\/Blog\/cns!25FBED687A2B871F!330.entry#comment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the Windows 7 Automated Installation Kit, or WAIK.&#160; WAIK is useful for IT Professionals to have a boot disk that will boot up from a CD instead of the computer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard drive.&#160; With the boot CD, you can boot with a CD and open up, you have the same basic functionality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}