On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Often, folks bring their windoze laptops to the clinic, hoping to make them dual boot. This is an OK option for small budgets and off-warranty laptops, but for new laptops or bigger budgets, it is better to remove the original windoze hard drive and store it for later, and install a new hard drive. Put linux on that, then virtualbox or vmware with a windoze client if necessary.
+1The same thing is true when you're helping someone whose computer has malware or a crippling case of Old-Windows disease. Convince the owner to buy a new hard drive -- and an external USB enclosure. Install a new copy of the OS on the new HD, make the old drive available via USB (presumably after scanning it for malware), and copy data files as necessary.
In larger environments, where a decent file server is available, use Clonezilla (*before* ever booting the new laptop from its hard drive) to get a pristine image of the machine as shipped. If necessary for warranty work, the original image can be pushed back to the machine in question.
-- Paul Heinlein [email protected] 45°38' N, 122°6' W
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