RE: Capturing pre-OS screenshots

[John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I'll vouch for VMWare. I use two monitors and Snagit. I run VMWare on
one monitor and capture the images of the OS installation, which I
then crop and save. Works very well...for this and many other
situations. I don't know how I did without VMWare before this.

> > I need to capture screenshots on a computer before an
> > operating system has been installed...
> 
> Here's a completely untested idea...
> 
> If you used a virtual machine (something like VMWare) I 
> think you could have
> your screen cap tool running on the main OS and use it 
> to capture the window
> that the virtual machine is in.  Just crop out the 
> window chrome, and you'd be good to go.


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John Posada
Senior Technical Writer


		
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