[Cialug] dd Windoze partition

[khamil8686 at gmail.com]

That sounds like an avenue I could pursue. Only issue is I don’t have any windows installs yet. I could do a throwaway install w7 on a vm and not register it then use the program possibly?

From: Dan Hockey
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:48 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] dd Windoze partition

For windows look for something called hdd2vhd. You run it on a working
windows install, it will generate an image you then can import. You may
have to use a usb hdd to save the image on. Windows will complain about too
many hardware changes and you have to have MS to rebless your install as a
vm. The good thing about that is once the vm is running you can go back and
do a clean vm install to get rid of all the junk from the real hardware.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> 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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