23rd March 2017, 2:57
Thanks to both rocky & ali_deda for your posts since i last wrote. I had had to stay away from this task for quite a while, due to serious problems per my https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread.php?tid=24237. However, that all seems to be behaving itself again now, so i wondered about maybe me trying this HDD task.
I confess though a sense of dread about this. As i wrote in my original post, "Two of my VMs are Win10". I really intensely dislike Win10, but given i do already have these VMs, & doing the upgrade from Win7 for one & via Insiders for the other, then resolving their Activations [all this was a couple of years back], were not trivial exercises, i'm loathe to possibly break them [lose their Activation] when/if i move their VMs to another partition. I'm not saying this problem would occur, i'm only saying i don't understand if it would, & so am now wondering if i should just leave well enough alone [which would be a pity, as i do like the idea of my HDD becoming ext4 instead of ntfs].
Does anyone here happen to know what the likely Win10 VM hazards might be, if i did do this procedure?
I confess though a sense of dread about this. As i wrote in my original post, "Two of my VMs are Win10". I really intensely dislike Win10, but given i do already have these VMs, & doing the upgrade from Win7 for one & via Insiders for the other, then resolving their Activations [all this was a couple of years back], were not trivial exercises, i'm loathe to possibly break them [lose their Activation] when/if i move their VMs to another partition. I'm not saying this problem would occur, i'm only saying i don't understand if it would, & so am now wondering if i should just leave well enough alone [which would be a pity, as i do like the idea of my HDD becoming ext4 instead of ntfs].
Does anyone here happen to know what the likely Win10 VM hazards might be, if i did do this procedure?