I am planning on buying a new laptop soon. I will be getting a solid
state drive right away, and am planning on installing Debian as my
main OS.

I'd like to take the Windows install that's on the manufacturer's hard
drive and move it to a virtual disk image for VirtualBox. Has anyone
ever done this? I did a quick search and it looks like it's something
you can do, but I'm curious to know if anyone has ever tried it and if
there's anything I need to watch out for.

Thanks,

Erik

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Erik K. Mitchell
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