Martyn Thompson
December 14th, 2008, 03:45 PM
Hi guy and gals.
I have a laptop that I use at home but belongs to my work. This has Windows XP on and is supported by our IT department. I do NOT have admin access rights to XP.
As I have a greater affinity to Ubuntu the first thing I did was remove the works hard drive (40GB) and add my own bought one (120GB). I installed Ubuntu on to my own drive and I am more than happy with this system.
HOWEVER (this is the rub). I sometimes need to use the WinXP hard drive to connect into work to securely read emails keep in touch with the office. For the last 6 months I have been doing this by swapping the drives over but obviously that is a pain to do and I am sure long term it won't be doing either HDD a lot of good.
So my question is (sorry for going round the houses but I thought it was important that you know the background), does anyone know of any software that will allow me to make a complete image of the WinXP installation and put it on to my own 120GB disk, then allow me to dual boot?
Further, I already have a nice Ubuntu set up on my current disk and would prefer not to have to reinstall if possible, but recognise I may be forced to.
I do not have Admin rights to the XP installation (as I said, it is maintained by IT). It also uses Cisco software to connect to my office which is why I need a complete image. My intentions are not to try and break the existing Win XP install and I certainly have no intentions of trying to circumnavigate the security in place on this... my intention is just to make my life easier and save wear/tear on the hardware (and my time).
I realise this is a big ask and wondered if anyone has any thoughts (apart from 'Don't do it!').
I have seen nLite - will this do the job for me?
Thanks in advance,
Martyn.
I have a laptop that I use at home but belongs to my work. This has Windows XP on and is supported by our IT department. I do NOT have admin access rights to XP.
As I have a greater affinity to Ubuntu the first thing I did was remove the works hard drive (40GB) and add my own bought one (120GB). I installed Ubuntu on to my own drive and I am more than happy with this system.
HOWEVER (this is the rub). I sometimes need to use the WinXP hard drive to connect into work to securely read emails keep in touch with the office. For the last 6 months I have been doing this by swapping the drives over but obviously that is a pain to do and I am sure long term it won't be doing either HDD a lot of good.
So my question is (sorry for going round the houses but I thought it was important that you know the background), does anyone know of any software that will allow me to make a complete image of the WinXP installation and put it on to my own 120GB disk, then allow me to dual boot?
Further, I already have a nice Ubuntu set up on my current disk and would prefer not to have to reinstall if possible, but recognise I may be forced to.
I do not have Admin rights to the XP installation (as I said, it is maintained by IT). It also uses Cisco software to connect to my office which is why I need a complete image. My intentions are not to try and break the existing Win XP install and I certainly have no intentions of trying to circumnavigate the security in place on this... my intention is just to make my life easier and save wear/tear on the hardware (and my time).
I realise this is a big ask and wondered if anyone has any thoughts (apart from 'Don't do it!').
I have seen nLite - will this do the job for me?
Thanks in advance,
Martyn.