backup partition

[Derek Trotter]

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 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:expat.arizonan at 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 at gmail.com>  <mailto:expat.arizonan at 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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