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To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (74307)	2/26/2011 3:10:05 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 110626

True, that's what I do for an "emergency" backup. I put a SSD into a USB case and ghost my running windows XP to it once a month and boot from it to make sure it's good. If my hard drive fails, I can plug in the USB drive and keep on trucking. MSFT asks me the "activation" routine every great once in a while, but so far, I've been able to reactivate it online without having to call anyone. I also do a weekly image backup to another external. Lot of guys at work use Clonezilla, I always used the free Acronis from WD and Seagate until I recently purchase the 2011 package from Acronis. Drives are cheap now and with external SATA available (I don't have it yet), you should be able to play and learn anything you don't want to...

To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (74307)	2/27/2011 6:55:43 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 110626

There's a program you use to "install" a standard Linux ISO onto a thumbdrive. You don't use the Ubuntu installer to do it. The program has a checkbox for "persistence". And you can try many different versions of Linux. I use a version of Ubuntu called FluxBox". Without lookin gat it, I think it uses the old BlackIce window manager, very few resources consumed. Runs great on my old 600Mhx Celeron laptop I use traveling. blog.linuxmint.com I use this program to load any Linux onto a thumbdrive: pendrivelinux.com