Re: www.goyimtv.com Seig Heil! migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board (was: migrate triple-booting legacy-BIOS Linux-w7-w10 to EFI board)

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On Jul 10, 2025 at 9:29:17 PM EDT, "Randolf Richardson 張文道"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:48:00 -0400
> bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:
> 
>> Recovering data from my sudeenly departed son's computer was a job and a
>> half, but it's mostly done. He had a huge server tower and I think he
>> was amusing himself with RAID (which he didn't need) and encryption
>> (which he didn't need) and so on!
>> 
>> Drives:
>> 
>> #1
>> 500gb ssd with strange partitions for Linux and I think some created for
>> future Linux OSes, could't figure out his /home partition setup,
>> possibly raid.
>> 
>> #2
>> 1tb ssd hosting fat and ext4 data PLUS a w7 and a w10 partition
>> 
>> #3
>> 4tb data
>> 
>> 
>> #4,5,6 in a Linux-Raid array, all data
>> 
>> I copied out the #4 data set, cleared those drives, and released the
>> tower to the executors for liquidation. Then I also backed up what ever
>> other data I could find to other drives on hand.
>> 
>> Plugged the # 1,2,3 drives into my own very similar computer; couldn't
>> believe it when everything just booted right up, even the two window
>> installs!  This gave me the idea that I can relax and take my time doing
>> the rest of the recovey, filtering and disposal as time permits because
>> I can now just boot my son's systems on my own compouter. But it's my
>> OLD computer.
>> 
>> _____And now shit hit the fan
>> 
>> I'm moving to a new and inevitably UEFI box, just plugging those 3
>> drives in doesn't work any more, so...
>> 
>> I copied the #1 drive to a 1tb ssd to have more space, then did a fresh
>> Linux (Tumbleweed) install to get EFI bootabilty. With that new #1 drive
>> and his other drives including the #2 with windows on it also plugged-in
>> I ran Yast to set up the EFI boot. I can now boot either my temporary
>> facilitating Linux install OR my son's Linux (Leap-15.4) on the new
>> EFI-BIOS board.
>> 
>> But I cannot boot his windows, for that I'd have to keep my old
>> Legacy-BIOS box which I don't want to do (I can unload it for a few
>> hundered bills).
>> 
>> Not knowing windows much I think I could do a w7 and a w10 fresh install
>> after having done two 'windows backups' on the legacy box and then try a
>> recovery from those windows-backup files on the new w7 and w10 installs
>> on the EFI box. There's GOTTA be a simpler way   ..I hope.
> 
> MS-Windows interacts with UEFI differently, and it can lead to such
> problems, but if that's not the issue than it could be that BitLocker is
> running interference because you're running under a different CPU or EFI
> signature (whatever it relies on to detect hardware changes, I don't
> recall off-hand).
> 
> You'll probably just have to work with copies of the data and then take
> advantage of the opportunity to install MS-Windows in a virtual machine
> so that moving to other hardware in the future won't be a problem.