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

[Lucas van staden]

That is a very good point.

sent from my kettle with extra beans!
On Feb 13, 2012 8:22 AM, "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at gardenshark.org> wrote:

>
> 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 "generic" 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:
> > Hi, been down this road before.
> >
> > My personal attempt at this about a year ago is here:
> >
> http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/asus-recovery-cd-with-virtualbox.html
> > The idea itself is not mine originally, but i did get better succes
> > than the original poster. Most likely due to better virtualbox
> > software at the time i tried it.
> >
> > It worked once and once only. No idea why only that first time. I
> > think the second time fail was related to having had wiped the
> > recovery partition by that time.
> >
> > Warning: lots of speculations here:
> > I think the prcedure can be made workable, if the recovery partition
> > is attached to the vm, as mentioned in the previous posts , as raw
> > disk access, but would have lots of less red flags as it will not be
> > the actual windows install that will be raw accesses. Just an idea,
> > have never actually done it myself. I just don't use windows at all
> > now,so never bothered to make it work.
> >
> > Unless you have some time to experiment, i would suggest just
> > borrowing a cd and get it done that way.
> >
> >
> > -lucas
> >
> > On Feb 12, 2012 5:47 PM, "Gavin Chester" <gavin.chester at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         It seems sacrilegious to ask this here, I know, but hear me
> >         out ;-)
> >
> >         I want to know if anyone has experience and pointers on how
> >         can I get a full windoze install on dvd from a recovery
> >         partition (and or the original install)?  I've read of making
> >         recovery partitions into recovery discs, but don't think this
> >         will do the full kitchen sink effect that I want after
> >         blitzing windoze to the weeds on it's original partition.
> >
> >         I bought a laptop recently with the inevitable windoze tax
> >         preinstalled and set it up dual booting my distro of choice,
> >         as you do, fighting my usual method of completely blitzing
> >         windoze away never to darken my doorstep again. However, I
> >         also hate to throw out something that I've paid for so am
> >         reluctant to get rid of it this time around.
> >
> >         Thing is, I'd rather run it as a vm using virtualbox for those
> >         few times I must use a package that is windoze only. Can I:
> >         1/ point virtualbox to that existing win7 install and instead
> >         run it as a vm on it's separate partition as it is now?
> >         2/ make a full installation dvd of that windoze install to
> >         then wipe it and reinstall in a vm under Linux?
> >
> >
> >         Any ideas?
> >
> >         Gavin
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> Richard Meyer
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> does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss,
> the abyss also gazes into you."
> (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878)
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