<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2010 08:53, Raoul Snyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za">raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Vincent,<br>
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:39:05 +0200, <a href="mailto:bullet@ballmail.co.za">bullet@ballmail.co.za</a> wrote:<br>
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</div>Depending on how much RAM you have, you might want to investigate<br>
installing VirtualBox, and installing Windows inside that. You should be<br>
able to access all your Windows files from within Linux, in which case you<br>
can backup all the important files, and then install XP into VirtualBox,<br>
and then transfer the files back into XP in VirtualBox.<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote><div><font color="#888888"><br>Hi.<br><br><br>I have to agree with Raoul - running VirtualBox on my Linux box changed my world. Now I can boot up Windows when I need it and even run Win98 or DOS 6 when required (I still have those disks, ha!) without any boot issues. It also makes it easy to "check out" something as I simply boot up a clone of a virtual machine, try the new software patch and see what happens. So I run Linux on Linux - it makes for a safer software testing environment and I can have several virtual machines, all set up for specific tasks, that I start when required.<br>
<br><br>Go for VirtualBox or something similiar.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Ewald</font> </div></div>