Question about portable linux

[Stephen]

The ian hdd I have has this weird fake cd area that makes it unbootable.
On Nov 10, 2010 11:26 PM, "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com>
wrote:
> 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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