[ltp] Dual boot with two hard drives - Ultrabay

[Donald B. Altman]

** Reply to message from Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 02:06:06 +0000

Hello,

A few of weeks ago, VMWare announced that their server was freeware.
While I've only used their workstation, this may be the ideal way to virtualize
your machines.  You can read more at:

http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

BTW:  I run W2K in a virtual machine and love it.

Good luck,

Don A


> Josh wrote:
> > I have a T43 Thinkpad.  Ubuntu linux is on the whole
> > 60GB drive.  I couldn't make a dual boot system (long
> > story - I've done it many times before but it would
> > not work with this hard drive because it wouldn't
> > defragment completely no matter how many times I
> > reinstalled windows and defragged with XP tool and
> > Diskkeeper).  So I bought an Ultrabay hard drive
> > adapter and a 40GB drive for Windows.
> > 
> 
> Unless you really really want the maximum performance, you could perhaps 
> solve this problem in an easier way: run Windows inside a virtual machine.
>    VMWARE  = near 100% performance; costs about $100 (free player, if 
> you can get someone else to install for you)
> 
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Donald B. Altman
Singular Technologies
Croton-on-Hudson,  NY