[NTLUG:Discuss] How to move data from one drive to another

[John Thomas]

Robert Pearson wrote:

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>VMware is the way to go. There are many experts for VMware on this
>mailing list. I am not one of them. From the conversations I have seen
>on the mailing list, I would have thought that installing a new disk
>for Linux under VMware would be just like installing it under Linux
>running stand-a-lone. It the new disk is to be shared with XP the file
>system type must be shareable read/write.
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Robert, I'm running XP as the guest OS under a Linux host.  VMWare is 
pretty slick.  There is no perfomance penalty at all on my system (I 
have 1GB RAM), and I've had no Windows crashes since I started six 
months ago.  It's mainly because of the XP virtual disk files that I 
need more room.   I.e., VMWare has to create a file (or files) equal to 
the size of your Windows virtual disk.

JT
jathomas  at   tacni.net