I bought a laptop a while back with XP-home installed. Recently, following the tragic loss of all my vacation pictures due to a mangled MSIE ‘upgrade’ that left the file system fatally mangled, I switched out to Ubuntu on that machine.
Now I am thinking that I want to run XP again, in a VM. All I have to work with is my wretched “recovery” disk from Toshiba … which is more appropriately named “nuke & reinstall”.
What I am now contemplating is to nuke the computer, grab (if possible) enough files from the HD to install with again, and then re-install Ubuntu and the VM. From there, I hope to install the copy of XP that was licensed to my computer INSIDE the VM.
BTW … trying to load the Toshiba ‘recovery’ disk into the virtual machine results in a nasty / rude error message as the final insult.
Everything about my Toshiba was first class until I saw that. That was just plain tacky and should never have gotten out the door.
Moreover, I’m pissed that the only disk that came with my computer REQUIRES a re-format to reinstall. That is just BS. That turns a problem into a disaster.
