USB Drive Xubuntu

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As somebody who restores grotesque amounts of files off computer that can't boot to the Operating Systems I have a question to ask. Can I put Xubuntu 9.04 on a thumb drive and set up up where I can run it on a clients computer. Pull up the local drive and put all the documents on a portable hard drive.

Tried all the tools in UBCD but all of them of proprietary pay-for stuff that can't back files into USB Drives and Portable HD's. Also the linux distro that comes with UBCD doesn't work.

I haven't looked to see exactly how this works, but it's about creating a bootable Xbuntu USB stick:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-xubuntu-904-persistent-install-windows/

^What he said, or try the "Create bootable USB drive" (or something like that) from within Ubuntu.

If you have a large enough pendrive you can just install ubuntu there. But its going to be harder on it than the ram file system of the liveCD/USB. Make sure you install its own grub though.

hmm...not entirely sure. I have a USB keyboard, and loaded Wubi onto the system. It says I can run Ubuntu, but it picks it up from a point before the USB keyboard is recognized, so it's Hobbson's choice...

grrrr....


Still, I'm just a linux newbie, so mileage may vary.

I came to a conclusion. Why don't I just use the Knoppix Live CD. Does the same thing as Windows PE. Automatically mounts internal hard drives and lets you copy the data to flash drives, network, portable hard drives as well as other partitions.