On 13 March 2014 18:55, SuperEngineer wrote:
> I also have the original on original disk in remnants of old machine -
> still working - as fail safe backup. Might even try running from that
> disk in this pooter some day. For now though, it's my safe store. ;)
Ah! Well, if you don't mind re-co
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 13:11 +, Liam Proven wrote:
> Secondly, don't try to boot the VM off a disk partition. Image the
> disk partition into a file, then use that file as your virtual disk.
> Much much safer, and also, when you get the VM configured to use the
> virtual emulated hardware, you w
On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer wrote:
> As an aside [& to continue with the original mail]
> I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a
> Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an
> ageing Dell Dimension].
> The original XP partition i
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 22:51 +, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> Here's a method from Virtualbox themselves:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows, but from experience
> it's
> not that easy even when virtualising on the same hardware.
>
Thanks for the quick reply Simon. I'll give it a try
On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer wrote:
> As an aside [& to continue with the original mail]
> I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a
> Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an
> ageing Dell Dimension].
> The original XP partition
As an aside [& to continue with the original mail]
I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a
Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an
ageing Dell Dimension].
The original XP partition is now on the my sda as sda1.
No surprise, but XP won't
