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" > 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 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 >>> >>> -- >>> "One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker!" >>> - Fred Dibnah >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list -PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss