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I had a Beelink SER5 MAX mini PC.

I wanted a general sense of how air quality looked in the American heartland.

I was working in Microsoft Word 2021 on a Windows 11 desktop PC.

Nobody likes it when AIs just make stuff up.

The Problem I had an Olympus VN-960PC Digital Voice Recorder (DVR).

Contents Background General-Purpose Drive Checking Windows System Checking and Repair Add, Tweak, and Remove Programs Shrink or Delete Unnecessary Files Defragmentation and Free Space Consolidation Zeroing Free Space Hole-Punching (i.e., Reclaiming Zeroed…

I had a Google Pixel 6 Pro smartphone.

I converted a recent Gemini chat into this blog post, using roughly the technique described in another post.

It was 2025.

Contents Introduction Using Windows Tools: Preparing a .dd of a Windows Installation Using Windows Tools: Cleaning Up a .dd of a Windows Installation Using Windows Tools: Shrinking and Zeroing Partitions in a .dd of a Windows Installation Using Ubuntu Too…

Contents Introduction Preliminary Decisions Saving a Running System as VMDK VMDK and VHDX as Temporary Repositories Restoring ADI to VMDK: An Internal Method Restoring ADI to VMDK and/or .dd: An External Method From .dd to VMDK Cleaning Up, Shrinking, Con…

Another post discusses conversion of various materials to formats that would be highly conducive to ZPAQ deduplication.

As described in another post, I was looking for a way to convert my Windows 11 desktop PC system to native-boot VHDX.

Another post contains the text of a discussion I had with Perplexity.

As indicated in another post, I was looking for a way to convert my desktop PC’s operational Windows 11 installation to a bootable VHDX.