[ltp] Moving windows

[Richard Neill]

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. It looks as though the 
consensus is thus:

1)It might work - but may not, because Windows may complain that the 
hardware is being changed under it. There shouldn't be driver issues - 
the QEMU hardware is pretty standard. I'll give it a try anyway.

2)It's morally legal to do this, but the technicalities are murky.

3)Yes, this is crazy, and I should stick with Linux. However the reason 
is that my friend is being migrated from WinME (ugh!!) to Tux, and it 
would be useful if she could have some means of running Windows software 
eg Publisher (yuk!) without going completely cold-turkey. I don't want 
to pay for a separate copy of Windows, and I really don't want to copy 
the WinME installation, since that is so badly corrupted(*).

Best wishes,

Richard



(*)Windows systems have "half lives". This one is on its 5th - and even 
right-clicking the C: drive will crash it. My friend was also not aware 
that there was anything wrong with getting "dubious" popups every time 
she opened I.E. - and that this was just to be expected!! The only way 
to clean this system is a thorough de-fenestration.



Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> 
>>2)Is it possible?
> 
> Yes:-
> 
>>If so, how? (I haven't got any form of install/rescue disk)
> 
> 1) back it up, using dd from a LiveCD, to space on your other machine.
>    ( Just in case of accidents, because you haven't got a Windows rescue CD. )
> 
> 2) Take care to read up on parted first and to do a scandisk and defrag in 
> windows. Then shrink/compress the partition to whatever the Win2k will fit 
> into using either of the linux utilities parted or qtparted. These are on 
> many LiveCDs
> 
> 3) Move this smaller image across your net saving it as win2k.iso, and delete 
> the previous backup.
>