Without knowing the specs of tester who can say. I have testers that can be used plugged into the switch and get LLDP info, for example, and Testers that can’t.

For the amount of time it saves, unpatch the cables to be safe.

Is this some dodgy USB dock problem rather than an NTFS problem?

If a P2V converter doesn’t work I have had success in the past using Veeam Free agent backup and then done a bare metal restore to a VM

Nice work.

Jealous of your 0.1315 😂