Using a 1 Terrabyte drive as a boot drive ???

I just got a thousand gig external drive for back-ups etc and was wondering
if I could clone my computers drives to it to give me a boot-disk that
could be plugged into another machine and booted so I basically have my own
compter available.

If so, what would be the best way to accomplish this?

I'm using a dual-boot system with 98SE and XP Pro.


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)

You could do this with VmWare by using the free VMware Converter to convert
your existing installation into a virtual machine file that resides on your 1
TB drive. You could then boot into your virtual computer after plugging the
drive into any other computer running VmWare workstation software. You could
even keep both an XP and 9x virtual machine on the hard drive and run both at
the same time.

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter

If the new virtual machine is running XP you would need a seperate
activation license for the virtual machine. The new license would allow you
run the virtual machine any computer you plugged the hard drive into because
the license is tied to the virtual machine on the hard drive and not the
actual machine that the drive is attached to.

--
John Hensley
www.resqware.com


"LabRat" wrote:

I just got a thousand gig external drive for back-ups etc and was wondering
if I could clone my computers drives to it to give me a boot-disk that
could be plugged into another machine and booted so I basically have my own
compter available.

If so, what would be the best way to accomplish this?

I'm using a dual-boot system with 98SE and XP Pro.


Later......

LabRat...... |:^{)