I was referring to the process of turning a running Windows installation
into a VM from within that running installation. I know VMWare has such
a tool, and I think Virtualbox does as well. (other virtualization
solutions might too, and still yet, there might be 3rd party tools to
accomplish the job)
Otherwise, you could create a VM for each OS, but don't install an OS
into it, then simply point the boot device to the desired physical drive
and boot the VM. It *should* boot up the drive as if it were running
bare metal as the main OS. (but within the VM of course)
If you can plug in more than one drive to the working machine at a time,
I'd do so, and set the Ubuntu drive as the first and only boot device.
Then see if from within Ubuntu, you can see and mount the other drives.
You might have to get dirty with command line tools though as some of
the GUI apps for this don't always play nice. From the command line, you
can also possibly run SMART tests on the offending (or every) drive.
(The drive has to support SMART, but most drives made in the last 25
years do, though maybe not the full spec.) Look into smartmontools for
more on this.
Another option is to get an external drive caddy as you may have a
problem with one or more of your internal SATA ports. (could be a bad
data cable, or power cable too - so many things to try...)
And don't toss or destroy those drives. You might still be able to save
them yet.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Adrien
On 1/15/24 9:47 PM, Jeff wrote:
I do not fully understand yet what has happened. My "NEW" old tower
recognized all of my drives I pulled from the blown up computers, then
poof, the new computer suddenly doesn't recognize them anymore (all of
the ssd boot drives). I got lucky tonight and found the drive for my
Ubuntu server or I would not be responding.
If I cannot get the sata drive from my laptop back up and running then I
am screwed for taxes (Stupid me I forgot to backup 2022). I can still do
the book keeping from here if I can keep Ubuntu up and running (except
that some of the financial institution ID an passwords that are on a
windowze drive). Much easier under__Ubuntu and a work station.
Unfortunately for me, the tax software is on a windozs drive that I can
no longer access.
_
_I have not tried using a VM, as this tower suddenly decided that
several of my drives no longer exist.
How would I move it to a VM?
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