Recovering Qubes VM's from Unbootable Hard Drive

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Here is an example:

Paid help: uefi boot items disappeared, re-added and never booted again!

I can only give you approximate untested instructions: Assuming: /dev/sda3 - old Qubes OS encrypted LVM /dev/sdb1 - temporary backup drive and assuming its filesystem support creating sparse files (e.g. ext4) (Sparse file - ArchWiki) or has enough space to contain the VM raw images Mount your backup drive, decrypt old Qubes OS system and activate VG: mkdir /mnt/qubes-backup mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/qubes-backup mkdir /mnt/qubes-backup/old-qubes-os-backup cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda3 luks-old-q…

But it’s untested so you’ll need to check if it’ll work.