I have two computers with Windows 2000 on them. I've booted Puppy from CD on both of them many times, even moved many files from Windows to Puppy, though never the other way, and nothing bad has happened -- Yet.sling-shot wrote:...you have mentioned that it may be dangerous to use it. Does it mean it will cause permanent damage to my harddisk/filesystem (windows) if there is some malfunction or just that it may destroy Puppy settings (if so that will be ok)???
Most computers can run Puppy without a hard drive at all. I haven't seen anything in this forum that makes me think Puppy could harm your Windows installation or hard drive or other hardware even if you tell it to, but assuming you have enough RAM (I'm not certain of the minimum required but, say, 128 MB?) if you disconnect your hard drive and then boot the CD, Puppy should run just fine. I've done it myself, to test a new computer I hadn't yet installed an OS in.