cit.: "Ultimately I plan to run this pre-installed Win10 in a VM under F29. The trick is to get a forensic copy of the existing pre-installed OS that I can read back into a VM using P2V" maybe a hint: you are maybe able (raid: don't know) to boot your raw windows disk(s)/Partition(s) within a VM. I do this with Virtualbox. My Windows lays on a second sata disk (1st and 2cd partition) and I do "sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ./Win_RAW.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb -partitions 1,2 -relative" to get a disk (~800 Bytes only) for my Vbox Windows VM config. the command creates 2 files: - Win_RAW.vmdk and - Win_RAW-pt.vmdk the first one is your disk for your Window 10 Vbox-VM you need to chown the created files for your user running the VM, too. fdisk -l: /dev/sdb1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdb2 206848 41019391 40812544 19,5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT here, sdb1 is the boot partition and sdb2 the system partition from Windows 7/10 maybe a second hints: to have a disk image from your shiny new machine isn't a bad idea ( backup, sale in some years ?) - systemrescuecd - => fsarchiver - delete the Windows swap/hibernation files before doing an image !!! P.S. more right: he above /dev/sdb is a lie/no more current since I moved my sda (F29 !) stuff to an nvme (Samsung Evo Plus => tested by phoronix.com), so a sata port came free and sdb went to sda. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
