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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by sysadm1n on Sunday November 21, 2021 @06:45AM (#29295667)
I used Windows To Go[0] and you could put Windows 8 on an SSD or even a USB flash drive.

I used to get random blue screens of death from this however, so stopped using it. Also: WTG is no longer supported by Microsoft, so we can't use it anymore.

I like your hack of attaching an SSD to a VM. How do you do that though? Is there some procedure for doing that? I'd love to know!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_To_Go

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Re:Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition by arendtio on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:17PM (#29299322)
Attaching a physical hard drive to a VirtualBox VM was straight forward back in the day. First guide I found is this:

https://superuser.com/questions/495025/use-physical-harddisk...

However, making it possible to boot windows without the VM required some hacks and I neither know if they work for modern windows too nor what they were exactly.

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