Quote Originally Posted by suddenseer View Post
Ahh, just let the cloud copy/paste/(backup) do all of that file thingy shit. When my phone gets lost, stolen, crushed in scrap steel compactor. LOL Something always happens, so I am ready.
Well, scrap the dual boot idea; the BIOS setting on the MoBo determines which Hard Drive to boot from.

But, I used a utility called R-Drive to make two bootable backups of my Vista system, I installed one of the Hard Drives into the Windows 7 desktop, along with the Installation disc. I booted from the CD-Rom and told it to repair my Windows Vista OS. For all the money in Bill Gates account, the machine could not/would not repair and make bootable the Vista HD.

So, it is installed in the Windows 7 machine; I have access to all the info, just cannot use the Vista OS.

I still have the Vista machine running with, a bootable backup sitting on another HD.

I have VM Workstation 12.x installed on my Win 10 Laptop and I had the option to "Virtualize" a physical machine; I followed all the instructions, downloaded the Standalone Converter but, the live cloning of the machine failed; I cursed a bunch and, just created a Virtual machine using the Vista installation disk (gonna try to use the backup to "restore" my Virtual Machine to where (this) the Vista machine is now).

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