<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Jim Byrnes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jf_byrnes@comcast.net" target="_blank">jf_byrnes@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 08/05/2014 09:26 AM, Dick Dowdell wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Jim Byrnes <<a href="mailto:jf_byrnes@comcast.net" target="_blank">jf_byrnes@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 08/05/2014 06:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:<br>
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On 5 August 2014 13:22, Dick Dowdell <<a href="mailto:dick.dowdell@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.dowdell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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VirtualBox does have an advantage over a dual boot installation in that<br>
one<br>
can switch back and forth between OSes without rebooting. With<br>
hardware-level virtualization, performance is excellent.<br>
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Please put your response *below* the text to which you are replying.<br>
Gmail supports this just fine; I am using it right now. Press Ctrl-A,<br>
trim and then type.<br>
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VBox is fine for some things, but for others, native bare-metal<br>
performance is key. I don't see them as exclusive alternatives; I have<br>
a rarely-used copy of Win7 in a native hard disk partition, and the<br>
official MS XP Mode VM running under Virtualbox as well (and also<br>
rarely-used).<br>
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I have a dual boot setup now, Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on separate hard<br>
drives. About the only thing I use Win7 for is to run Turbo Tax. It really<br>
would be more convenient to run it in VBox. I don't have an installation<br>
disk because Win7 came installed on the machine.<br>
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I've googled this in the past and found several sets of complex and<br>
sometime conflicting instructions. If someone who has successfully put an<br>
installed copy of Win7 in VBox would point me at the instructions they<br>
used, I would appreciate it.<br>
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Regards, Jim<br>
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Jim,<br>
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I haven't done it in a while, but Virtual box will boot a VM from a VHD file<br></div></div>
<<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>VHD_(file_format)</a>>. That is of interest<div class=""><br>
because you can back up your Windows 7 (or Vista) machine to a VHD file. I<br>
discovered this when I accidentally double-clicked a VHD backup on a<br>
Windows 7 machine with VirtualBox installed. I do not believe that you can<br>
do this with a Windows 8 machine.<br>
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Dick,<br>
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Thanks for the link. As soon as I get a little spare time I will see if I can get it to work.<br>
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Thanks, Jim<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Jim,
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It occurs to me that many Windows machines sold without installation media have the tools to create an installation disk from a hidden partition on the hard drive. Have you explored this alternative?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards</div></div>