[TriLUG] Using dd to repair a VirtualBox .vdi file

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

this is rather the sick preaching to the healthy[1] but... having 
missed death once, you might find a way to back up your VM periodically :-)

William Sutton

[1] I don't do home backups either.  I know I should but ... [insert 
excuse here].

On Tue, 26 May 2015, Paul Boyle via TriLUG wrote:

> This is weird. I thought I would post my problem to the VirtualBox
> forum as Roger suggested.  I decided to boot my Windows7 VM in order to
> record the exact error.  Much to my surprise, however, the VM
> booted up OK.  I think maybe the Linux system for some reason needed to
> be rebooted before VirtualBox would work again.
>
> The initial problem was that I was watching Netflix through the VM and
> it appeared that entire machine would freeze up.  The only solution was
> to power off the laptop. That's a separate problem probably related
> to the recent upgrade.
>
> Thanks for the help so far, but, I think my dd question has become
> moot.  However, for the sake of learning, if someone does have the
> the dd command which would do what I want, I would still like to know
> it.
>
> Paul 
>
>
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