DLSS Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 ok so as you guys kno i just baught a new laptop, and it came with a vista oem on a partition. and as you kno i plan to install UU (ubuntu ultimate edition) on it . but want to preserve the vista incase i need it in the future ... now i kno you could create a install disk out of restore disks under xp, but can you still do that under vista ? and how ? or what way is there to install it later after the drive has been fully erased or overwritten ? thanks a lot , greats, DLSS ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Vista has a way to back up the entire drive to a few dvds Orb > Control Pannel > Backup and restore. now I've never used it but worst case you can download the RTM disk via torrents and use your Key on the bottom of the laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 Couldn't you use a tool like Partition Magic to resize the partition with Vista on it, and then install UU next to it? Or do you _want_ to completely wipe the current install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLSS Posted August 29, 2007 Author Share Posted August 29, 2007 Couldn't you use a tool like Partition Magic to resize the partition with Vista on it, and then install UU next to it? Or do you _want_ to completely wipe the current install? i'd prefere to completely wipe the drive, seeing as it only has a 80GiB internal HDD wich i plan to have dedicated to only the OS and the progs (will buy a 500GB external drive in 2 months to store other data on ...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow1100mfp Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 yes, you can make a total back up of the drive through windows, but i've tried making backups to dvds before on a brand new system (granted it was xp not vista but it should be some what similar), and it took me 12 dvds and it was a fresh hard drive, nothing on it besides what came with it, and its a 160gb drive, of that there was 158 gb free, so i don't see where the 12 dvds worth came from. so unless you want to waste that many dvds and that much time (it took me a couple hours on a high proformance system), id say just partition it and give it as little space as possible, and use the rest for your uu (and, in all honesty, how much of 80 gb are you going to use in 2 months unless you already have a ton of music and pictures you plan on putting on it?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 Got room to store an image of the system anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operat0r_001 Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 ok so as you guys kno i just baught a new laptop, and it came with a vista oem... keep the cdkey install XP pro dl WGA crack http://www.google.com/custom?q=WPatcherP55...;sa=Google+File Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Try G4U ghost for unix :) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=G...G=Google+Search Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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