samsara1981 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I have two related questions:1) I am going to completely wipe my hard disk including the recovery partition. My computer did not come with a Windows rescue or install CD (it is genuine, OEM from major supplier), but while I have heard that Acronis is the tool to have for backups to hard disk, I really would like a recovery CD/DVD in addition to a hard disk backup (yes, I am paranoid). Is there a tool that will enable me to make a bootable recovery/rescue CD or DVD? Please note I am not interested in backups to hard disk, I can do those already.2) Ideally, I would like to have the option of inserting my existing installation into a virtual environment. At this point, I'm keeping an open mind towards VMWare, Parallels, qemu or anything else that may be out there, and not fixed on a particular host OS (could be Linux if that's the recommended). I realise that since the Windows installation is on a laptop, it may refuse to work when presented with different hardware (e.g. in a VM) but I reason that it's worth a try, unless someone thinks I will encounter severe problems. What migration tools are there? Cheap is good.Many thanks,Samsara. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Welcome to the Windows Forum!If I were to try what you are planning, I would first install VMware, then install Windows from the OEM recovery partition. I don't think you can just migrate an existing Windows installation to another computer (including VM). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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