[Nottingham] virtualbox windows question

[godfrey]

Thanks Simon,

After a bit of work I now have it running. My first attempt failed because the 
virtual disk that I had specified was not enough for Windows, AND the hidden 
disk images that the Acer restore insisted on creating. However, my second 
attempt had a disk of 60Gb and 1Gb of RAM and it is working fine. I was able 
to use contivity and remote desktop to reach my office all whilst editing web 
pages and reading emails with my Linux system.
I have a shared drive that I use to pass files between the two systems.

Godfrey

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:30:59 pm Simon Sleaford wrote:
> 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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