<p>That is a very good point.</p>
<p>sent from my kettle with extra beans!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 13, 2012 8:22 AM, "Richard Meyer" <<a href="mailto:meyerri@gardenshark.org">meyerri@gardenshark.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Just a thought - the recovery partition is going to have all the drivers<br>
for the laptop hardware, not the generic drivers that VirtualBox uses -<br>
will it work with VB?<br>
<br>
May be better to install a "generic" Windows and use the key on the<br>
lappie than try to thump the square peg of the customised version into<br>
the round hole of VB.<br>
<br>
On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 21:39 +1100, Lucas van staden wrote:<br>
> Hi, been down this road before.<br>
><br>
> My personal attempt at this about a year ago is here:<br>
> <a href="http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/asus-recovery-cd-with-virtualbox.html" target="_blank">http://www.dedmeet.com/software-projects-mainmenu-12/asus-recovery-cd-with-virtualbox.html</a><br>
> The idea itself is not mine originally, but i did get better succes<br>
> than the original poster. Most likely due to better virtualbox<br>
> software at the time i tried it.<br>
><br>
> It worked once and once only. No idea why only that first time. I<br>
> think the second time fail was related to having had wiped the<br>
> recovery partition by that time.<br>
><br>
> Warning: lots of speculations here:<br>
> I think the prcedure can be made workable, if the recovery partition<br>
> is attached to the vm, as mentioned in the previous posts , as raw<br>
> disk access, but would have lots of less red flags as it will not be<br>
> the actual windows install that will be raw accesses. Just an idea,<br>
> have never actually done it myself. I just don't use windows at all<br>
> now,so never bothered to make it work.<br>
><br>
> Unless you have some time to experiment, i would suggest just<br>
> borrowing a cd and get it done that way.<br>
><br>
><br>
> -lucas<br>
><br>
> On Feb 12, 2012 5:47 PM, "Gavin Chester" <<a href="mailto:gavin.chester@gmail.com">gavin.chester@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> It seems sacrilegious to ask this here, I know, but hear me<br>
> out ;-)<br>
><br>
> I want to know if anyone has experience and pointers on how<br>
> can I get a full windoze install on dvd from a recovery<br>
> partition (and or the original install)? I've read of making<br>
> recovery partitions into recovery discs, but don't think this<br>
> will do the full kitchen sink effect that I want after<br>
> blitzing windoze to the weeds on it's original partition.<br>
><br>
> I bought a laptop recently with the inevitable windoze tax<br>
> preinstalled and set it up dual booting my distro of choice,<br>
> as you do, fighting my usual method of completely blitzing<br>
> windoze away never to darken my doorstep again. However, I<br>
> also hate to throw out something that I've paid for so am<br>
> reluctant to get rid of it this time around.<br>
><br>
> Thing is, I'd rather run it as a vm using virtualbox for those<br>
> few times I must use a package that is windoze only. Can I:<br>
> 1/ point virtualbox to that existing win7 install and instead<br>
> run it as a vm on it's separate partition as it is now?<br>
> 2/ make a full installation dvd of that windoze install to<br>
> then wipe it and reinstall in a vm under Linux?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Any ideas?<br>
><br>
> Gavin<br>
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