Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
Yes, you can, though it’s not an ISO 9660 format like a cd image, it’s just a raw binary disk image. You’ll need to do something like this: https://superuser.com/a/890806
But virtualbox also comes with tools that will convert to vdi for you: https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/user/vboxmanage-convertfromraw.html That talks about files, like you’d make with dd, but in linux a block device is already a file!