Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

[Timothy Murphy]

Gary Stainburn wrote:

>> 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.

> Firstly, why bother changing anything? It is only the support that is
> ceasing, XP will continue to function. I

Basically, I'm (slightly) worried the disk might fail,
and then there would be no way of re-installing XP properly (eg no SP3).

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Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland