Saving off Windows to install Ubuntu

Wes James comptekki at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 19:29:55 UTC 2013


Take a look at clonezilla for creating your images:

http://clonezilla.org/

-wes


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:16 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net>wrote:

> I have 6-12 windows computers that I am not using because the windows os
> is part of what gives value to the box, as far as most of the buying world
> views it.
>
> I would like to (a) get rid of any non-ms programs and any data from a
> computer and then save the ms windows "image" to a dvd, mark it as
> associated with that specific computer,
> the wipe and install ubuntu.
>
> Then if I ever wanter to sell the box, I could remove ubuntu and install
> the specific windows for that computer, and sell it to someone as a working
> ms windows computer.
>
> How do I reliably do this?  Do others have the same issue?  Laptops are
> even worse due to windows required hardware.
>
> John R.. Sowden
>
>
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