Originally Posted by stillt 1. I'm running windows xp on my pc, and I have a seperate external hard drive that I wish to install linux on. Once I've installed this I would like to start up windows, and then run Linux on top of this (within a window or something). Is this possible?

This is possible actually, I read it in a Mag I bought, let me go find it but you do need a x64 processor (64bit)

EDIT**
Magazine is in back of dads car (hes on business trip) so I cant get it, sorry. But search it, its defo possible, it runs from what I remember in a normal window in luinux

Alex.