Thanks Lisa. I thought about what you suggested, but I tried a couple
of years ago and xp ran ok, but the games I tried to play on it didn't
run right. Has virtualbox improved 3d support over the last couple of
years?
On 10/11/2012 10:08 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
> Run XP in VirtualBox on Linux.
>
> On 11 Oct 2012 01:27, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan@gmail.com
> <mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'll look into clonezilla and partimage later today. Yesterday I
> was using the kde partition manager to resize the ntfs partition
> my xp install lived on. Just my luck my linux install crashed.
> It's kubuntu 12.04.1 for amd64. Naturally when I got the system
> restarted, the ntfs partition was gone. Thankfully testdisk did
> recover it, but it still won't boot. Right now I'm moving
> everything I want to keep off that ntfs partition.
>
> After that's finished I'll nuke that partition, the only one on
> that hard drive. In the next day or two when I get round to it
> I'll reinstall xp on a smaller partition that will be just for xp
> and any programs I run on it. A second partition on that drive
> will be for anything I want programs running on xp to have access to.
>
> Now I have to decide whether to make that other partition ntfs or
> ext4 and install a driver on xp that will allow it to see the ext4
> partition. Which would be the better option?
>
> thanks
>
> On 10/10/2012 03:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Partimage will do this for you. you can also look up clonezilla as it
>> is a bootable iso built around this process and some nice scripts to
>> make it easy to do.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter<expat.arizonan@gmail.com> <mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for something on linux that would allow me to create image files
>>> to back up partitions. I guess something along the lines of Norton Ghost.
>>> I'm looking for something that's easy to use. Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Derek
>>>
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