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Converting a boot disk #2

Closed MegaZeroX10 closed 4 years ago

MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago

It would be nice if that was made possible. My suggestion is to have it add Quibble's EFI to the list of boot items and set it as default after converting the boot disk.

maharmstone commented 4 years ago

Not possible, due to how Windows is designed.

MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago
  1. Its not possible to convert it at the time that Windows runs chkdsk when the disk is in use?
  2. Can the boot disk be converted by using a USB stick that has a WinRE/Linux distribution on it?

By the way, I was able to convert a Windows Server 2003 VHD to BTRFS (minus the messages regarding compressed inodes, which still show up on the disk instead of being deleted).

maharmstone commented 4 years ago
  1. If you want to write such a thing, be my guest.
  2. Yes - by "boot disk", I mean "current boot disk".
MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago

How about you open this ticket and add a help wanted label?

TheMadHau5 commented 3 years ago
  1. Converting the current boot disk shouldn't be recommended, or even allowed, for that matter. As for converting it pre-boot, that doesn't seem like a bad idea but it'd probably take quite a bit more effort to code.
  2. WinRE would have to have btrfs support and a copy of the ntfs2btrfs executable. As for a linux usb, it should work if compiled.