[Cialug] dd Windoze partition

[Scott Yates]

Not a problem.  It was just something that occurred to me that might help
you get a more useful response.  I tend to treat OS's as a tool, and in
that light, bad or good is really beside the point.  They all have their
strengths and tools.


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM, <khamil8686 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I posted the same thing on stackexchange and it got downvoted because of
> ‘winblows’. Communication is very frustrating thing with a brain injury,
> people don’t get my jokes, especially online. Get discriminated against
> heavily in the workforce, especially at Iowa Student Loan, but no lawyer
> would take my case. Sorry. </rant>
>
>
>
> *From: *khamil8686 at gmail.com
> *Sent: *Friday, July 28, 2017 12:49 PM
> *To: *Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>; Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> <cialug at cialug.org>
> *Subject: *RE: [Cialug] dd Windoze partition
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>
>
>   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 <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> *Sent: *Friday, July 28, 2017 12:35 PM
> *To: *Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> *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:
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> > 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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