I am not sure that I understand the problem, but I have successfully used a 
$70, 250GB USB HD to boot a M$ laptop on Linux, and then run the native 
WinXP or Win7 OS inside VirtualBox. 

I LOVE IT!!!   8)
I can shutdown the laptop, pull the USB HD, boot the native Wincrap and 
there is no trace (other than the VirtualBox guest additions installation) 
left behind. 

I even have a cookbook to accomplish this.
Somewhere...   :)
ET 

 


Stephen writes: 

> I have a laptop at work that is horribly gimped with xp 32 bit. 
> 
> I can boot wubi but the drive is encrypted with mcafee endpoint encryption
> so it cannot acess its disk volume past boot. 
> 
> So aside from an expensive ec ssd or an expensive thumb drive that's out. I
> so have a ian hdd but it's weird and I can't boot from it. 
> 
> Im looking for options that I can ramdisk as I have 4gb of ram or get funky
> useing the ian hdd for persistant data. 
> 
> I have not yet tried to use the ian hdd for the wubi file as its a slow
> drive.
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