Before I blow windows away....

[Michael Butash]

If it's a new pc, I wouldn't bother - it's all spy/adware/demo anyways 
im sure.  Otherwise just liveboot with a linux cd, pop in a usb drive, 
and rsync -avh the ntfs filesystem somewhere in case there's something 
you need you forgot.  I usually keep them a few weeks (or whatever if 
have the space) and end up deleting it later.

It's easy enough to find a oem windoze cd online, just install in a vm 
with your key, and call microsoft to reset your wga for the vm - instant 
portable windoze.  This is what I've done with an xp image on 
vmware/virtuabox for a good 6-7 years now.  I don't need anything else 
considering it's a) always behind a nat for protection, b) never gets 
used to browse, and b) just runs visio.  If you move it around, just 
don't change the mac or hardware types much or it'll reset the wga bulls***.

Really need something like a portable citrix xenapp for this kind of 
thing that doesn't cost a left arm or require infrastructure...

-mb


On 11/25/2011 11:36 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I thought to myself that I would keep Windows7  until it got loaded up
> with viri and spyware and all those nice things because I thought that
> there were things that would be cool to use for a bit..... then I got
> the machine home! I don't even WANT any of the crap they got on there!
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Before I blow windows away I think I should make a copy of the hard
>     drive in case I need to re-install it. How do I do that  and can I
>     back up the boot sector as well? I'll be backing up to a cd. Would I
>     use dd?
>
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