I have managed to fill up my laptop&#39;s dual boot (Win 7 and Debian testing) 320 GB drive, so I have a new shiny 750 GB drive to install. I have tried to use Clonezilla, and it keeps failing because the old drive has 512 byte sectors and the new drive has 4096 byte sectors. No problem; I will just create a system image of the Windows partitions to move that to the new drive, net install Debian testing, and copy over my user files.<div>
<br></div><div>However, I was thinking that I could get rid of the dual boot and just virtualize the Windows partition. My questions - </div><div><br></div><div>1. Can I create a virtual version of my Windows 7 Home Premium using the system recovery disk and the backup on my external usb drive? So far, it installs to the new 750 GB drive with no issues. I don&#39;t have any original media disks. </div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Vmware or Virtualbox? Do either one support usb so I can run iTunes on my virtual Windows drive? A while ago I was able to get vmware to run off of the Windows disk partition, but it seemed to break every time I ran an upgrade on Debian, and it was a pain to get it to work each time. I don&#39;t want to fiddle with this approach again, unless I have to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your suggestions!</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>