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

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On 4/25/25 12:42, Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 4/25/2025 8:33 AM, bad sector wrote:
> 
>> That thick brown morass just keeps getting deeper and deeper...
>>
>> Were it not that the circumstances make this chore important to me I would long ago have tossed the whole thing out into the dump bin; that, alas, is not the case.
>>
>> So I caved in and bought Macrium (all-in-all close to $100cad) ......but can't even install it because the only window that boots is w7 but it doesn't have sha-2 and w10 is the one I want to salvage because it doesn't boot. Anyway, to get sha-2 I had to do another update but then the sha-2 update bombed on reboot and keeps reverting to 'uninstalled'. Still I managed to INITIATE a Macrium install before rebooting but could never complete it. It never ends for crissssake!
>>
>> Things have changed. This rentalware gets licensed to ONE computer so I think I will re-install a w-10 freshie this evening on my Ryzen box and take it from there beginning with making a rescue-CD.
>>
> 
> Unless they removed it, the link I gave you was for a free version
> of Macrium. You didn't have to buy it. For example, if you had
> a Win7 32-bit as your daily driver OS, you could install the
> second link here if you wanted. The filename is reflect-setup-FREE...
> 
> The three artwork links, correspond to the usage of this software.
> 
>     https://download.macrium.com/reflect/v7/v7.3.6284/reflect_setup_free_x64.exe
> 
>     Name: reflect_setup_free_x64.exe
>     Size: 115,719,576 bytes (110 MiB)
>     SHA1: B6724C7B6F5AF146406FAAA78F845A6C281D67D8
> 
>     There is also a 32-bit one. For 32-bit setups.
> 
>     https://download.macrium.com/reflect/v7/v7.3.6284/reflect_setup_free_x86.exe
> 
> Use the three artwork links, for details as to how to fill out the dialogs.
> 
> The 64-bit one, and Rufus, should be able to make a UEFI boot
> stick. The 32-bit one looks a bit more of an issue that way.
> 
>     PaulZAeiMD@kL47#QThMu4TBN8&3e?@kNkNiMD.o4f635G4z


I was in way over my head, throughout this entire task actually because 
I knew next to nothing about windows and absolutely nothing about EFI. 
This weekend I'm staging for the next attack. Got the facilitating 
version of disk-1 done, it has a freshie linux Tumbleweed and a w10 on 
it also in addition to the original Linux which boots and works fine. 
Got the Reflect installation done too (which BTW has to be done on-line 
if using the home edition). Made the Rescue CD too. Don't know much 
about their ReDeployment feature yet.

This evening I moved most of my own rags over to the new machine, 
that'll get finished before Monday. Lots of reading to do, I may not 
need to use the old legacy box at all. For example I read that w7 
'should' boot without issues on the EFI box, in EFI mode, IF the w7 
partition on the DOS disk is changed to GPT (apparently gdisk can do 
this without data loss), etc. etc.

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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
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    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
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