Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 20 Jan 2014 at 11:29, Timothy Murphy wrote:

To:             	users at lists.fedoraproject.org
From:           	Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it>
Subject:        	Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?
Date sent:      	Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:29:07 +0100
Organization:   	Trinity College Dublin
Send reply to:  	gayleard at eircom.net,

> I always keep a copy of Windows XP on my computers.
> I very rarely use them, but find that they are occasionally useful. In
> any case, with the upcoming death of XP I'm thinking of keeping a
> backup copy of my Windows partition on a USB stick or external hard
> disk.
> 
> I looked briefly for a method for this under Windows,
> but all the solutions I found seemed either absurdly complicated
> or else were linked to expensive programs which I certainly don't
> want.
> 
> It struck me that there is probably a simpler way of doing this under
> Linux, and I was wondering if someone not of a fanatical bent might
> help me.
> 

There are a number of options for doing a backup. I've been maintainer of 
the g4l project since 2004, and it has options for backing up linux, and other 
partitions. In my classroom, I have it setup to run as an option to restore the 
XP partition on old systems in about 12 minutes for the 40G partition using 
ntfsclone image. Just got new machines 2 weeks ago, and have them setup 
with Windows 7 and Fedora 20. The Grub menu now has an option to restore 
the 160G partition in about 9 1/2 minutes, but only has about 25G of space 
used, which makes the NTFSCLONE image better since it backs up just 
used space.  This wouldn't be a running version, but would be a backup of 
the data. Would also need to backup mbr with partition table to restore. There 
might also be options to run XP under Virtualbox or other options, or 
depending on the needs, usine WINE, dosbox, or dosemu. 



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> School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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