[ltp] Moving windows

[James Knott]

Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> This is slightly OT, but I wonder if anyone has done this successfully.
> I've just bought a Thinkpad X22 (secondhand, great machine), and it
> comes with Win2k. I'm going to wipe the HDD and install Linux only.
> However, I'd like to put the Windows install onto my desktop machine -
> it's occasionally useful to have via QEMU. So, my questions:
> 
> 1)Is it legal to do this? I know it *ought* to be.
> 
> 2)Is it possible? If so, how? (I haven't got any form of install/rescue
> disk)
> 
> 3)If I just dd it across over the network, will it boot OK, and is there
> any way to shrink the "partition"?

I think you'll find it's been customized for that system.