[Nottingham] virtualbox windows question

[Simon Sleaford]

Hi Godfrey

As far as I'm aware your Vista vm shouldn't be able to see your Linux
partition at all so you should be safe enough to carry on and wipe the drive
(notice it even refers to it as the c: drive, a concept foreign to Linux).

However, it you're being directed towards a complete restore why not build a
new vm from the ground up and then delete the broken old one when you are
happy with the new one?

Cheers

Simon
On 17 Nov 2010 22:25, "godfrey" <godfrey at gnnix.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could not make the social tonight (tummy does not like curry, and I had a
> committee meeting to attend where I am a trustee - Nottingham InterFaith
> Council)
>
> Anyways, to my question. Anyone here have experience of doing a Windows
repair
> (yes, yuk, I know) when running inside a virtualbox vista image?
> I am fed up with having to reboot to that other os whenever I have to
connect
> to the network at the office, so want to get windows inside Linux. But of
> course I get the warning about changed hardware and the instruction to
> repair. I 'boot' using the Installation CD, but I have the message "no
user
> data found, select complete restore, this will completely wipe C drive"
>
> I am not confident enough to continue with this option, as I have a single

> disk with two partitions (Windows and Linux). If I do select 'continue'
will
> it wipe the whole physical disk including linux?
>
> Regards,
> Godfrey
>
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