On Monday 20 January 2014 10:29:07 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I always keep a copy of Windows XP on my computers. > I very rarely use them, but find that they are occasionally useful. > In any case, with the upcoming death of XP > I'm thinking of keeping a backup copy of my Windows partition > on a USB stick or external hard disk. > > I looked briefly for a method for this under Windows, > but all the solutions I found seemed either absurdly complicated > or else were linked to expensive programs which I certainly don't want. > > It struck me that there is probably a simpler way of doing this under > Linux, and I was wondering if someone not of a fanatical bent might help > me. Firstly, why bother changing anything? It is only the support that is ceasing, XP will continue to function. I have VirtualBox installed on my Fedora 19 system mainly so that I can run a WinXP VM for those things that I need to use Windows for. I wish I'd done that ages ago as it's so much better than dual booting. I don't know if there is a tool to convert a physical XP machine to a VM as I did as the installation notes suggested and created a clean XP install - resulting in a XP VM that actually runs quicker than the old native physical mode XP setup. There are tools out there to do that for VMWARE. Is there still a free VMWARE package available? My suggestion is though, if you don't need to change and don't want to change, then don't change Gary -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
