Strongly recommend setting up a NAS device to store your media - it’ll stop you from having to migrate data and reconfigure Plex when your storage fills up. You can upgrade the storage whenever you need and mount it via NFS/SMB in Proxmox under Datacenter > Storage

You can even run the NAS in Proxmox if you feel froggy. Just make sure to connect all the drives directly to your VM instead of the Proxmox Host, and make sure it’s started BEFORE you try to run any other VMs because those shares won’t be available without that VM being on.

You might want the NAS on other hardware to avoid that, but that’s your decision.

Honestly, this is the point where I’d just make a new VM and manually migrate what I need to

Hyper-V will work with physical disk, but be warned - the wizard you run through when making a VM will make it look like you give the VM a VHD file for storage or nothing. Just attach no storage to the VM initially, then go into the VM settings after the wizard is complete to attach something besides a VHD.

Can’t entirely remember if it handles partitions but I know it can boot particular disks and if the setting exists, that’s where it would be

Windows 7 was a competent OS with low system requirements, a stable kernel, a simple feature set that was well-known and useful, an interface that was comprehensible and clearly conveyed to the user, and it didn’t require extra investment or online accounts, and compatibility options for the really old stuff. It remains the Best version of Windows in my eyes.

8 took away the comprehenisble UI, low spec options, and lack of online service requirements, then 10 further complicated the UI and filled the OS with ads, the then 11 bloated the feature set, added even more ads, borked compatibility, and made the online accounts a requirement unless you pay extra and/or know what you’re doing.

Textbook Enshittification

Forget about EA, they’re a different company. Ubisoft is the one you want to worry about, they own Watch_Dogs and all related copyrights like DedSec

CEOs. Name them. Shame them.