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Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux
Subject Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board
Date 2025-04-14 03:29 -0400
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Message-ID <vtidh7$pfge$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Mon, 4/14/2025 12:27 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:50:13 -0400, bad sector wrote:
> 
>> But I cannot boot his windows, for that I'd have to keep my old
>> Legacy-BIOS box which I don't want to do ...
> 
> Would it boot in a VM?
> 

W10 and W11, boot on "stranger systems" now, just like Linux does.
Not exactly the same way, but it works. That means a system packaged
into a container, and run in something like VirtualBox, should work.
You should attempt to match boot type, when adjusting the controls
on the Guest setup.

If there is any sort of encryption involved, and there isn't a
recovery media stick laying around in the vicinity, you might
need to log into the MSA account on the microsoft site, and
fetch the recovery key from there. but best practice is to
make recovery media. I would use a floppy for that, as the size
required is not large, I have a USB to floppy and the odd garbage
floppy diskette in some box, suited for the storage.

Even on Home, you can check for some kind of encryption. One of the
status types presumably available, would be FDE for this (encryption
hosted by the hard xrive controller itself) rather than software Bitlocker
protection. In an Administrator terminal...

PS> manage-bde -status
BitLocker Drive Encryption: Configuration Tool version 10.0.22621
Copyright (C) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Disk volumes that can be protected with
BitLocker Drive Encryption:
Volume C: [W11HOME]
[OS Volume]

    Size:                 118.73 GB
    BitLocker Version:    None
    Conversion Status:    Fully Decrypted
    Percentage Encrypted: 0.0%
    Encryption Method:    None
    Protection Status:    Protection Off
    Lock Status:          Unlocked
    Identification Field: None
    Key Protectors:       None Found

That command accepts "-h" for help.

   Paul

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migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-12 19:50 -0400
  Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-12 20:40 -0400
    Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-13 22:42 -0400
    Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-22 16:40 -0400
      Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-23 09:38 -0400
        Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-24 00:23 -0400
        Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-24 03:52 -0400
        Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-25 08:33 -0400
          Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-25 12:42 -0400
            Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-25 23:01 -0400
            Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-27 08:43 -0400
              Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-27 11:20 -0400
  Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-14 04:27 +0000
    Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-14 03:29 -0400
    Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-14 06:03 -0400
      Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-14 08:16 -0400
        Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-14 23:38 +0000
        Re: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2025-04-14 20:44 -0400

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