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Installing MS Windows 10 into a Virtual Drive in VirtualBox

In 2018, I used VirtualBox to upgrade a hard drive to be used in my Tivo. It worked great and shortly after that, I used the same technique to install Windows XP on a solid-state drive (SSD) for use in another machine and then Mageia on another drive destined for anoter machine. I found myself in need of the same proceedure and pulled up my old page and found that Oracle had updated the command involved. The one on my old page,  $ VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename  /path/to/source_sdk.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdk has been superseded by: $ VBoxManage createmedium disk --filename=VirtualBox VMs/Tiny10-Install/Tiny10.vmdk --variant=RawDisk --format=VMDK --property RawDrive=/dev/sdd This change allows some nice new features that might be useful to me in the future, but it did take me a while to figure things out, especially since the solutions offered to the problems I encountered were mostly for Debian-based distros (and many were ancient posts) and had no real appli...