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<br><font size=2><tt>I recently had need to boot up and old hard drive
that had XP on it but <br>
I did not want to pull apart a PC and try to get the XP drive working.
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Enter VMWare....<br>
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Here's how I was able to boot the physical XP drive under Linux via <br>
VMWare. <br>
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1. Used a USB 3.5 HD enclosure and connect the XP drive to it.<br>
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If the drive was shutdown uncleanly you may need
to manually <br>
mount it with the following command.<br>
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sudo mount ntfs-3g /dev/whereyourdriveis /mount/somemountpoint
-o <br>
force<br>
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Once the drive is mounted under linux contiunue to
step 2.<br>
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2. Launch VMWare.<br>
3. Go to File -> New -> New Virtual Machine.<br>
4. Select "Custom"<br>
5. Select Next<br>
6. Select your operating system (i.e. Win XP)<br>
7. Select Next<br>
8. Give it a name like "WindowsXP"<br>
9. Select Next<br>
10 Specify processor One or Two<br>
11. Select Next<br>
12. Choose public or private (on a single-user machine this doesn't matter)<br>
13. Select Next<br>
14. Select the memory to devote to the virtual machine. 512 MB is a <br>
pretty useful number.<br>
15. Select your network connection<br>
16. Select Next. <br>
17. Leave SCSI set to BusLogic<br>
18. Select Next<br>
19. Select Use Physical Disk<br>
20. Select Next<br>
21. Select Use Entire Drive<br>
22. Select Next<br>
23. Specify the place to save the VM<br>
24. At this point you're done Select Power On to boot the Physical drive
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in VMWare!<br>
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I have an ogg video of how to do this if anyone wants it...<br>
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