install ntfsclone (sudo apt update sudo apt install ntfsclone).(And there also seem to be and untested way to do it without temp storage altogether) then start it. I used a large drive here, to keep the image of the Windows partition, it’s a throwaway disk and instance anyway. create a small Linux instance, my preference is Ubuntu, as things are just easier there.in EC2 console, stop the Windows machine and detach the volume.What I did was moving the instance to my desktop VirtualBox, making the change and moving the instance back. Now AWS does not give you any access to the console, which would have allowed me all of 2 minutes to resolve the issue. The machine was running Windows 2008R2, and the online recipes of “just do mstsc /v:server /admin” did not pan out, the logins were locked for good. Once the demo licenses ran out, the CALs did not take, and I ended up with a valuable machine, used by 4 people daily, locked out and impossible to login into. After installing a Windows Remote Desktop client access licenses, commonly known as CALs, on an AWS EC2-based Windows machine, I made a mistake of not specifying my RD license server in the terminal server settings.

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