Virtual machine "snapshots" are awesome for that purpose. On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:48, Bruce Johnson<john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > If you need to run some Windows programs, forget about boot camp and > use a virtual machine app, such as Parallels, VMWare Fusion or Virtual > Box (which is free, and improving all the time). > > This is far far safer, since a) you're not mucking about with your > existing Mac partition...the horror stories of Boot Camp are legion, > and b) you can simply copy your virtual disk; so when Windows eats > itself or your Windows install is infested with viruses, you just quit > the VM, trash the virtual disk file, copy the good one back over and > start it back up. Elapsed time to 're-install ' windows? under a minute.
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