2009/5/20 Tim Dobson :
> lets just hope it's not dodgy memory or something causing the blue
> screens :p
You can always rule out a memory fault by running memtest86 overnight
from the LiveCD (or the boot menu if you've installed Ubuntu on the
machine already).
Cofion,
Neil.
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danattwood wrote:
>> Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on
>> average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.
>>
> Be aware virtualising the machine might not solve the blue screen issue.
> You might just end up converting a broken laptop into a virtual broken
>> Bad news, windows needs reactivation. Good luck with that.
>
> Ah yes, this did occur to me. Sounds like a complete nightmare. :-/
>
> Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on
> average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.
>
> Really, if I can get him off Vist
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 14:41 +0100, danattwood wrote:
> >
> > Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on
> > average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.
> >
> >
> Be aware virtualising the machine might not solve the blue screen issue.
> You might just end up
>
> Still probably the best solution. My boss's laptop is blue screening on
> average twice a day, which obviously, isn't good.
>
>
Be aware virtualising the machine might not solve the blue screen issue.
You might just end up converting a broken laptop into a virtual broken
laptop.
Dan
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2009/5/20 Tim Dobson :
> Michael Holloway wrote:
>> Recently, I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent (easy) way to do
>> it, and VMWare's P2V (free) is by far the easiest.
>
> I'll take a look at it.
>
>> Other ways are painfully slow(er) and complicated.
>
> hmmm.
>
>> It worked fine fir Vi
Michael Holloway wrote:
> Recently, I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent (easy) way to do
> it, and VMWare's P2V (free) is by far the easiest.
I'll take a look at it.
> Other ways are painfully slow(er) and complicated.
hmmm.
> It worked fine fir Vista64, but for use in VMWare server/
Recently, I spent a lot of time trying to find a decent (easy) way to do
it, and VMWare's P2V (free) is by far the easiest. Other ways are
painfully slow(er) and complicated.
It worked fine fir Vista64, but for use in VMWare server/workstation.
You can probably use qemu to convert the disk to Vir
Hi there,
I wonder if anyone can help.
I'm in the situation (with someone else's laptop) where it would be
ideal if I could image their Windows Vista installation on their machine
into a virtual machine, ideally Virtualbox.
Is this possible at all? Has anyone successfully done anything like th
