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vdfuse -w -f ~/Downloads/winxp.vdi ~/virtual
Out of curiosity...why are you wanting to mount it?
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vdfuse -w -f ~/Downloads/winxp.vdi ~/virtual
What he said^^A Future Pilot wrote:Well...I would suggest finding a friend who has a drive...or maybe going to a library or some other place with computers you can use.
I doubt that XP .vdi will work on your laptop. Windows isn't like Linux where if you swap out the motherboard and all, everything will be fine...No...i dont really mind linux its just its terrribly slow on my old laptop so i wanted something a little lighter but i couldn't find any .vdi's with puppy linux installed on them so i found one of windows xp instead
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VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw ~/Downloads/winxp.vdi winxp.img
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dd if=winxp.img of=/dev/sdXY
The partition boot sector is not a hidden file. It will not be copied if you copy files, but you can use CloneZilla to clone the NTFS partition that's inside the VDI, if you get the VDI mounted.realflow100 wrote:bootmgr (the boot manager for windows) is already in the .vdi and when i copy all the files to the external hard drive and set it to boot it will boot up using the bootmgr from the external hard drive that i had copied from the .vdi file (its a hidden protected operating system file but i can still copy it so i was gonna copy it to my external drive along with ALL the other files neccessary to boot windows i copy all the files in the .vdi including all the hidden operating system protected files to my external hard drive and boot from my external hard drive (i may be able to boot into safe mode and get things working fairly decent) i would be happy if i could just try... please? does anyone know how to fix the cannot access imagefile error?
Umm I get an error when i try to run the commandA Future Pilot wrote:Well in that case I'm out of ideas...I honestly have never really done this before.
If you want to install Puppy Linux, I can walk you through that using your external drive.
EDIT: actually I found a way that might work...although once again I seriously doubt that XP will work on physical hardware after being installed to virtual hardware.
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VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw ~/Downloads/winxp.vdi winxp.img
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dd if=winxp.img of=/dev/sdXY