[Cialug] dd Windoze partition

[khamil8686 at gmail.com]

  I just figured that Linux group would understand and sympathize. I also have a brain injury so things go straight from thought to out of my mouth/keyboard without any filtering. Communication definitely isn’t my forte so I try to avoid it when I can. Too bad life is full of it unfortunately. Oh well, learned a new word 😊
  I was thinking of throwing the backup on a VM. It will probably trigger windows to reauthenticate though, and I believe it’s an upgrade from windows 8. I used the ‘upgrade to win10 for free’ because of the need to use assistive devices, when they had that promo. Not sure if it is still on. So I don’t think I can use the same key that I get with jellybean key finder or cat-ing out the windows key that’s embedded in the disk/bios since it turns into a hybrid key upon upgrade. This is what I was told when I upgraded? I wonder if having it on my KVM server in my basement would still allow me to use things like plugging in a usb stick to my local pc and having it ‘attach’ to my vm and use it like windows locally installed on my laptop?

Anyone have windows on a kvm server and have an opinion on it?

From: Scott Yates
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:35 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] dd Windoze partition

You might get more of a helpful response if you used regular terms instead
of pejoratives like "winblows".

As for the windows partition, you might just be able to do a physical to
virtual on it, and convert it into a VM so you could manage it in your
preferred OS.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:53 AM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have used dd to move around a Windows partition before and it worked
> flawlessly. I just keep it around for those programs that are WInblows
> only. This time, I have Windows as a primary partition but I wanted to get
> UEFI boot working to learn about it. So I dd backed up my 100Gb Winblows
> partition and installed OpenSUSE in UEFI mode and took up the entire drive.
> I want to resize my physical/volume group since my logical volumes combined
> don’t take up the entire drive. This leaves 75Gb for a 100Gb Winblows
> partition. Think if I dd restore winblows to the last partition on my drive
> after resizing the pv and use a windows tool to repair the partition that I
> would have a working winblows install once I reinstalled uefi grub?
>
> Damn… just remembered that I would also have to break up the /dev/sda3
> partition after resizing my pv so I can create /dev/sda4… I believe I have
> done this before, and it will keep the partition signatures intact as long
> as you specify the exact same blocks…
>
> Maybe I should just re-install opensuse and make it smaller for my
> emergency winblows?
>
> Thoughts, questions, suggestions, comments, rants, insults, throwing
> rotten fruit anyone?
> Ty, Kyle
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