On 07/16/2012 07:06 PM, Duncan wrote:
Doug posted on Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:32:33 -0400 as excerpted:
On 07/16/2012 04:27 PM, Hans Muecke wrote:
Am 16.07.2012 15:20, schrieb Doug:
I hope this message falls within the scope of the guidelines you
published.
I want to convert to the KDE version for Windows. However, I want to
be absolutely sure I can get back, if it doesn't work out. (There is a
program that was very difficult to install, and I don't want to ever
have to do it again! As well as other paid programs.) In order to do
that, I would like to copy the entire Windows partition to an external
drive. On the Windows system,
the drive contains Win 7 plus pclos in dual-boot configuration. Can I
do (from the Linux partition) dd if=sda1 of=sdb and, if that is
correct, would the external drive be bootable?
If not correct, I hope that some kind soul reading this will correct
me! Thanx!
<yoda> Dark the meaning of your posting is.</yoda>
What exactly are you wanna do? Use KDE unter 7?
Yes. I understand that you can load KDE on Windows 7. I'm tired of
looking for things under the Windows GUI that MS decided I'm too stupid
to find.
I haven't done MS for over a decade and I couldn't legally even if I
wanted to, since I can't agree to the EULA so they give me no permission
to run the software, so I don't know anything about KDE on MS from
personal experience, but from what I've read...
The full kde desktop environment is not available on MS, as it has its
own desktop environment. What's available are certain individual apps,
ported to run on MS platforms, but they continue to run under the normal
MSWormOS GUI, not the kde desktop environment you'd find on *ix.
Basically, as qt runs on MS, they're simply qt apps, with an extra
library (dll on MS) or two providing the necessary base kde functionality.
I don't know enough about it to know what particular apps are ported, but
it doesn't appear that's what you're after anyway. You appear to be
after the kde environment, on MS, and that's not available.
I have just looked at the Windows.kde.org website, and looked thru
a whole set of screen shots. It looks to me like you DO wind up with
a KDE desktop and most of the KDE aps that I have in Linux. Of
course, maybe not all of them work, I don't know. Specifically, it does
look as if Dolphin is there, and card games, but I couldn't verify the
Find Files/Find Folders app.
So back to the first question: can I back up the entire Windows partition
using the method I suggested, or must I do something else? I do
intend to try KDE on Windows, but I'd like to have a belt and suspenders,
please!
--doug
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Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley
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