answered just to move it above the spam
On 19 Dec, 12:39, MikeBWFC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thanks for the prompt reply I will try the USB option first and if
> that fails I will go down the partition path, once again thank you
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
> On Dec 18, 11:02 pm, Janaka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > It can be done, but how easily depends on whether your laptop bios
> > allows booting from a USB drive. If it does, all you have to do is
> > press F10 (or whatever key on your laptop that gives you the boot
> > menu) at boot time and select the USB drive.
> > If it doesn't, then you'll have to install a new bootloader or append
> > to the windows bootloader menu a USB boot string. Both of these can
> > be a bit of a pain in getting to work.
> > If I was you, I'll repartition the Vista drive and allow for linux to
> > live natively on the same HDD. Most new distros has NTFS(3g) support
> > and can do a safe re-partioning of an existing drive. All you need to
> > do is to make sure you have enough freespace and defrag it so that
> > information is not all over the place.
> > Cheers
> > Janaka
>
> > On Dec 19, 12:39 am, MikeBWFC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi I was wondering if someone could give me a bit of advice, I have a
> > > desktop computer at the moment which I have it setup to dual boot with
> > > Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.10, the linux partition is on a separate Hard
> > > drive that I fitted to the machine.
>
> > > My question is I am shortly changing my desktop to a new laptop which
> > > will probably have Vista installed and was wondering if could fit the
> > > linux drive into a HHD enclosure, connect via USB and be able to
> > > excess Ubuntu. Or has anybody any other idea's I could use please.
>
> > > Best Regards
>
> > > Mike
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