In the previous part of this project I found that it is possible to boot a custom image on DigitalOcean droplets by writing a new MBR to the disk and the corresponding files. In this part, I will go over how I got a sort of working Windows to boot on the droplet.

A while back I signed up to DigitalOcean and setup a droplet (DO speak for VPS) and was happy to have a service that will allow me to deploy Linux test machines in a matter of seconds. I’m not entirely sure why, but I needed a Windows machine to test something and was frustrated that DO do not supply Windows images.