10-05-2015, 04:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2015, 04:58 PM by torreydale.)
Gotcha. If you have an Android phone or tablet, you should be good on hooking them up to Linux Lite. You're not alone in that. There are recent threads in this forum on people connecting their phone and tablet devices to Linux Lite. I have done so myself. If there's a particular repair/flash program that's Windows specific, you will be able to connect to your devices via a Windows virtual machine.
I'm not sure on the connectivity between IOS phones or tablets and Linux Lite, but you will still be able to connect to them via a USB connection to your Windows guest operating system.
My personal experience with my Windows 7 virtual machine upgrading to Windows 10 wasn't good. It wasn't as lightweight as Window 7 alone. In fact it was much slower. This was in both Virtualbox and VMware Player for Linux. Your mileage may vary. I cloned my Windows 7 VM and I created a snapshot before the Windows 10 upgrade. I reverted to Windows 7 early on because of the performance I was getting out of the Windows 10 upgrade. Windows 7 is supported until April 2020, by the way. By then I might not need Windows at all, or I'll just buy a Windows 10 license to do a clean Windows 10 install to a VM.
Now on getting you out of your bind, I say boot to the Linux Lite Live CD, access the "Users" directory of your Windows install (using the Linux Lite file manager), and copy everything in that directory to an external hard drive. That will backup all of your data. Then install a fresh copy of LL 2.6, wiping out all of the Windows partitions. I would recommend creating a separate home partition. How to do that is included below. After that, then we can get a Windows VM going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WsX1OjqSE
I'm not sure on the connectivity between IOS phones or tablets and Linux Lite, but you will still be able to connect to them via a USB connection to your Windows guest operating system.
My personal experience with my Windows 7 virtual machine upgrading to Windows 10 wasn't good. It wasn't as lightweight as Window 7 alone. In fact it was much slower. This was in both Virtualbox and VMware Player for Linux. Your mileage may vary. I cloned my Windows 7 VM and I created a snapshot before the Windows 10 upgrade. I reverted to Windows 7 early on because of the performance I was getting out of the Windows 10 upgrade. Windows 7 is supported until April 2020, by the way. By then I might not need Windows at all, or I'll just buy a Windows 10 license to do a clean Windows 10 install to a VM.
Now on getting you out of your bind, I say boot to the Linux Lite Live CD, access the "Users" directory of your Windows install (using the Linux Lite file manager), and copy everything in that directory to an external hard drive. That will backup all of your data. Then install a fresh copy of LL 2.6, wiping out all of the Windows partitions. I would recommend creating a separate home partition. How to do that is included below. After that, then we can get a Windows VM going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3WsX1OjqSE
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