One justification I have for not installing Vista on my home pc is that it is set up for raid 0 and I am not sure that Vista comes with safe drivers for the disk controller, given Vista's notorious lack of drivers. I admit I haven't done any research into this, otherwise my justification might vanish.
On a passing whim I decided to try booting a Knoppix 5.1 CD on it. As is usual with Knoppix it Just Worked ('Just' in the sense of 'merely', rather than 'a moment ago' as it takes a couple of minutes to Just Work). I was able to browse the Raided partition. It ran ok, if sluggishly and at some feeble display resolution: it didn't seem to know about 1920x1200 mode.
I think there used to be a way to hack together a Windows live CD. I'm don't know if it has been figured out for Vista but I'm not sure I care: a knoppix disk can reset passwords but a Vista disk is probably Hamstrung.
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