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Converting a hard drive into a .iso file

Nov 17, 2010 8:42AM PST

Hi, I am currently wanting to install Windows on my computer, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I have Linux Mint installed, and do not wish to install Windows in VirtualBox, but I do not want to lose my Linux ext4 hard drive. I do not want to have a dual boot system. Is there any way I can create an ISO image of my Linux hard drive, so then I can run it in VirtualBox in Windows? I have no idea of any software to do this. Here are my general expectations:

Convert hard drive into an ISO.

Copy ISO or export through program into the NTFS hard drive of my spare external hard drive.

Run in VirtualBox after installing Windows.

If at all necessary, re-burn the ISO to thehard drive, probably having to install GRUB or something MBR related.

Thanks

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there are liveCd/liveUSB creators
Nov 17, 2010 2:58PM PST

Google foor them. Fedora has liveUSB creator in utilities.

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Converting a hard drive into a .iso file
Jan 30, 2011 4:15PM PST

dd if=/dev/hdd of=mycd.iso ,Use this command and create iso image easily,just select your data source drive then destination drive.