On 20 Jan 2014 at 11:29, Timothy Murphy wrote: To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora? Date sent: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:29:07 +0100 Organization: Trinity College Dublin Send reply to: gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx, > 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. > There are a number of options for doing a backup. I've been maintainer of the g4l project since 2004, and it has options for backing up linux, and other partitions. In my classroom, I have it setup to run as an option to restore the XP partition on old systems in about 12 minutes for the 40G partition using ntfsclone image. Just got new machines 2 weeks ago, and have them setup with Windows 7 and Fedora 20. The Grub menu now has an option to restore the 160G partition in about 9 1/2 minutes, but only has about 25G of space used, which makes the NTFSCLONE image better since it backs up just used space. This wouldn't be a running version, but would be a backup of the data. Would also need to backup mbr with partition table to restore. There might also be options to run XP under Virtualbox or other options, or depending on the needs, usine WINE, dosbox, or dosemu. > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > -- > 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 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 10167349.112591 | SETI 17694336.630174 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 15500980.789852 -- 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
