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http://movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/09/moving-from-ms-money-to-kmymoney/ One example I found. Julian On 28/08/14 10:01, Eion MacDonald wrote:
To DCLUG, Dear folk, 20140828 help please to visualise XP on bricked laptop. 1.A colleague wants to get rid of old desktop due space ( dump monitor, desktop etc) and use a laptop HP Compaq 7620s from his son. 2. The colleague's son 'bricked' his laptop by trying to wipe data from his Windows Vista Business (CoA) laptop (running XP) and return to factory install, before giving to my colleague. The machine would not then boot or show any disc. GParted showed a completely blank disc. It appears his old firm (it was a redundant machine used by his son when in his old firm) had locked the BIOS so attempt to return to factory install was successful, not permitted by BIOS lock, and then ((F10?) he blanked the disc. I could not load any Windows systems or reformat inside a Windows DVD. 3. I reformatted and installed a) OpenSUSE, it works ok. b) Dual boots with other Linux Distros as well. However as colleague needs a copy of MS Money to run (he has 18 years records in MS Money) or I suggested use MS's sunset MoneyPlus. I would like to virtualise colleague's MS XP from his old desktop and transfer to a virtual machine in one of the Linux systems on laptop. Use one Linux off line with virtual MS Money , and other on line as normal Linux OS. 4 Any hints as to how to do this? 5. I looked at RoboLinux but this is a commercial method to make the virtual copy which can then run in any linux. Any experience of RoboLinux? 6. Ultimate way out is to buy another laptop with a MS Windows system and load MS Money or MS Money plus, and not to connect this MS OS to internet but use off line, and dual boot with an up to date Linux for his email and internet browsing etc. 7 This is first time I have had a machine with BIOS Locked by a forgotten or unobtainable BIOS password, and disassembly to remove CMOS battery is a very long and complex job, I would not want to do. Any comments or help.
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