Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

[Mark Phillips]

George,

if your computer has enough horsepower and ram, I would suggest not setting
up a dual boot system, but instead run Windows in a vm - vmplayer or
virtualbox. I have used dual booting with Linux and Windows for a long
time, but once I started running windows in a vm, I was much happier. Fewer
headaches and easier to switch between the two operating systems. Also
easier to share data between the two operating systems.

Just my two cents.

Mark
On Jan 12, 2015 8:18 AM, "Matt Graham" <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:

> On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>
>> Clone your Window$ with:
>> mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>> (cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -)
>>
>
> I thought that NTFS had a number of things like non-Unixy file permissions
> and alternate file streams that tar is not aware of and can't replicate.  I
> also thought that Windows still has a few things that require absolute
> sector positions, like the swapfile.  If it's possible to back up a
> Windows-on-NTFS drive with mount and tar, that's great--but I thought it
> was unlikely.
>
> I have usually used partimage to back up and restore Windows partitions.
> That works.  The downside is that it only does a partition at a time....
>
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