I have a year old img file of Windows 11. Is there any way to boot into that version of Windows so I can try reaching a website I am no longer able to access? I had a Coinbase wallet without the proper backup, recently they told me my extension was corrupt (not a hack or scam) when the extension was removed and replaced I no longer had access to the wallet. I can see it, I just can't manage it due to stupidly not having a paper backup of the seed words. I am hoping the old version of Window might be able to be booted prior to the extension becoming corrupted so I can access the wallet and back up properly.
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Booting from an img file?
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pendragon1
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you have to extract it or write it to a drive first
Full disk img. created with Windows.
Yeah, just dd it to another disk.
You could also use it (a copy of it!) to boot in a virtual machine.
pendragon1
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dd ?
Maybe I could just disconnect the current disk, and restore to a blank?
Yeah, I'd copy it, and see if I could get a vm tool to boot from it. I think vmware player is fairly flexible, if not, qemu is very flexible and performance doesn't matter because you're just trying to extract stuff, not play games.
Just use any software that copies a file to a disk sector by sector without doing anything else.
pendragon1
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whats dd?
That is macOS and Linux speak for a software that copies a file to a disk sector by sector without doing anything else.
MrGuvernment
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linux tool for doing disk work.
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First question is, did you noit back up your phrases for said wallet? And if it is on coinbase... your wallet should be on coinbase when you log into your coinbase account?
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Restore to another disk should be easy?
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pendragon1
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lol
with out adding "linux", it means a lot of things though
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/DD
If you don't use the correct parameters, dd will happily destroy the destination disk, so not far off there.
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Oh, I'm aware, still think it's funny.
You laugh, but it's been done. Nothing is more dangerous than a newbie with a keyboard, Linux kernel, and 5000 pages of out of date poorly translated manuals.
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Yeah, I've
rm -rf'd the wrong directory before. ctrl+c'd as soon as I realized, but still lost a lot of shit. lol