[plug] warning - cover your ears: can I get a full windoze install dvd from a recovery partition?

[Richard Meyer]

Just a thought - the recovery partition is going to have all the drivers
for the laptop hardware, not the generic drivers that VirtualBox uses -
will it work with VB?

May be better to install a +ACI-generic+ACI Windows and use the key on the
lappie than try to thump the square peg of the customised version into
the round hole of VB.

On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 21:39 +-1100, Lucas van staden wrote:
+AD4 Hi, been down this road before. 
+AD4 
+AD4 My personal attempt at this about a year ago is here:
+AD4 http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/asus-recovery-cd-with-virtualbox.html
+AD4 The idea itself is not mine originally, but i did get better succes
+AD4 than the original poster. Most likely due to better virtualbox
+AD4 software at the time i tried it.
+AD4 
+AD4 It worked once and once only. No idea why only that first time. I
+AD4 think the second time fail was related to having had wiped the
+AD4 recovery partition by that time.
+AD4 
+AD4 Warning: lots of speculations here:
+AD4 I think the prcedure can be made workable, if the recovery partition
+AD4 is attached to the vm, as mentioned in the previous posts , as raw
+AD4 disk access, but would have lots of less red flags as it will not be
+AD4 the actual windows install that will be raw accesses. Just an idea,
+AD4 have never actually done it myself. I just don't use windows at all
+AD4 now,so never bothered to make it work.
+AD4 
+AD4 Unless you have some time to experiment, i would suggest just
+AD4 borrowing a cd and get it done that way.
+AD4 
+AD4 
+AD4 -lucas
+AD4 
+AD4 On Feb 12, 2012 5:47 PM, +ACI-Gavin Chester+ACI +ADw-gavin.chester+AEA-gmail.com+AD4
+AD4 wrote:
+AD4         It seems sacrilegious to ask this here, I know, but hear me
+AD4         out +ADs--)
+AD4         
+AD4         I want to know if anyone has experience and pointers on how
+AD4         can I get a full windoze install on dvd from a recovery
+AD4         partition (and or the original install)?  I've read of making
+AD4         recovery partitions into recovery discs, but don't think this
+AD4         will do the full kitchen sink effect that I want after
+AD4         blitzing windoze to the weeds on it's original partition.
+AD4         
+AD4         I bought a laptop recently with the inevitable windoze tax
+AD4         preinstalled and set it up dual booting my distro of choice,
+AD4         as you do, fighting my usual method of completely blitzing
+AD4         windoze away never to darken my doorstep again. However, I
+AD4         also hate to throw out something that I've paid for so am
+AD4         reluctant to get rid of it this time around.
+AD4         
+AD4         Thing is, I'd rather run it as a vm using virtualbox for those
+AD4         few times I must use a package that is windoze only. Can I:
+AD4         1/ point virtualbox to that existing win7 install and instead
+AD4         run it as a vm on it's separate partition as it is now?
+AD4         2/ make a full installation dvd of that windoze install to
+AD4         then wipe it and reinstall in a vm under Linux?
+AD4         
+AD4         
+AD4         Any ideas?
+AD4         
+AD4         Gavin
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