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| Guest | RE: Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA? One licence, one installation; no matter where it is installed. Install where you like, as long as only one install at a time. Also, if you install as your operating system, and want to do a virtual install as well, buy another licence. -- Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia "Mark Conrad" wrote:
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| Guest | Re: Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA? In article <OlueTlf$IHA.3396@xxxxxx>, "Rick Rogers" <rick@xxxxxx> wrote:
various forums about the "impossibility" of trying to do it, however I eventually cobbled together a half-vast method that worked for me, YMMV.
did not get around to critically timing it yet.
My interest is strictly in having an emergency way to continue operating the same laptop computer, when I clobber that computer by doing something stupid. I could just restore the computer from a backup, however the resulting delay would occasionally be prohibitive with my tight scheduling, so for those occasions it would be better to have this alternative way of continuing to operate my computer. ....then later, at my convenience, do a proper "image" type of restore of the badly clobbered internal drive, which is usually too badly damaged for a conventional restore solution to recover from. Mark- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA? Really appreciate hearing that, would not look forward to the Microsoft Police battering down my front door. ;-) I actually have two licenses for Vista Ultimate right now, have not got around to using the second license yet. That second license will probably be used on a big desktop computer which I plan to remotely control "from the road". (I do a lot of traveling) Mark- -- In article <89765B3F-5BEE-4B15-88F3-EFF006CD062A@xxxxxx>, Mick Murphy <MickMurphy@xxxxxx> wrote:
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