So, basically, I would like to take my operating system on the go. Why? Well the PCs at my college are pretty nice BUT they are very restrictive. The PCs have deep freeze installed, so no changes can take place on the PCs (when restarted).
Basically, I was thinking I could clone my hard drive to an external hard drive and boot from my external drive rather than their internal hard drives. But the problem with this is that all the PCs are set (obviously) to boot in the order of internal hard drives first, and the BIOS is passworded. This would make booting off of my external a peice of work. I would have to crack the BIOS password, change the boot order, restart. And then the boot order would probably reset anyway because deep freeze is on.
Is there any way to force a USB to boot without editing BIOS at all? (I don't understand that there is a way, but I am constantly learning new things, so I think it's worth asking)
Moving on. So I've pretty much thrown away the above idea, it seems like too much work. I was wondering how well this would work: installing a virtual maching on an external hard drive, cloning my hard drive onto the external hard drive. Then after booting the machine, running the virtual machine software from the external hard drive, boot up the ISO image of my cloned hard drive, and run my own system from the external hard drive.
How would it run? Would it be too slow due to the virtual machine's interface? Could I assign virtually all the system resources to my VM OS with the Virtual machine? Any imput? Please comment, thanks,
-Derek
Basically, I was thinking I could clone my hard drive to an external hard drive and boot from my external drive rather than their internal hard drives. But the problem with this is that all the PCs are set (obviously) to boot in the order of internal hard drives first, and the BIOS is passworded. This would make booting off of my external a peice of work. I would have to crack the BIOS password, change the boot order, restart. And then the boot order would probably reset anyway because deep freeze is on.
Is there any way to force a USB to boot without editing BIOS at all? (I don't understand that there is a way, but I am constantly learning new things, so I think it's worth asking)
Moving on. So I've pretty much thrown away the above idea, it seems like too much work. I was wondering how well this would work: installing a virtual maching on an external hard drive, cloning my hard drive onto the external hard drive. Then after booting the machine, running the virtual machine software from the external hard drive, boot up the ISO image of my cloned hard drive, and run my own system from the external hard drive.
How would it run? Would it be too slow due to the virtual machine's interface? Could I assign virtually all the system resources to my VM OS with the Virtual machine? Any imput? Please comment, thanks,
-Derek