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Kari said:

You could try Disk2vhd, to make a vhd from that disk. Then it's easy to mount it to Virtual PC, or if the image is above VPC's maximum vhd size 127 GB, to VirtualBox or VMWare.

One problem that I can think of here is that when mounting that as a boot device on a virtual machine, some of the devices are changed to emulated virtual devices.

Kari

80gig drive and it is not full. Now we are getting somewhere.

WindowsStar said:

Kari said:

You could try Disk2vhd, to make a vhd from that disk. Then it's easy to mount it to Virtual PC, or if the image is above VPC's maximum vhd size 127 GB, to VirtualBox or VMWare.

One problem that I can think of here is that when mounting that as a boot device on a virtual machine, some of the devices are changed to emulated virtual devices.

Kari

80gig drive and it is not full. Now we are getting somewhere.

Looking at Disk2VHD now. It looks like you will have to make a VHD of the System Reserved partition too, otherwise it won't boot (I would guess)

I most definitely think it's worth a shot.

Ok, I am making a backup image of the drive, just in case before I do anything. I am hopeful that this will work.

@severedsolo, if your testing comes up with anything let me know.

DAMN! Well it successfully made the VHD. I also managed to get it into a VM, I made a VHD of my System Reserved partition and my C:\ Partition. But I can't boot it in a VM because I don't have Hardware Virtualization. so Virtual PC will only boot 32 bit OS's

you dont have your CPU listed in your system specs, so I can't say if you have Hyper-V (or whatever its called) or not, your mileage may vary. Also it obviously depends whether its 64 bit windows your booting.

WindowsStar, if it is an X64 system, both VirtualBox and VMWare can run x64 guests.

severedsolo said:

DAMN! Well it successfully made the VHD. I also managed to get it into a VM, I made a VHD of my System Reserved partition and my C:\ Partition. But I can't boot it in a VM because I don't have Hardware Virtualization. so Virtual PC will only boot 32 bit OS's

you dont have your CPU listed in your system specs, so I can't say if you have Hyper-V (or whatever its called) or not, your mileage may vary. Also it obviously depends whether its 64 bit windows your booting.

Thanks for the extra work. I will not be using my PC for this I am using a PC on the bench. I will make sure I am using one with VM hardware. I have a Dell 780 on the bench it is only 7 weeks old, it should work.

Windows 7 64bit is the off-line hard drive. I will be using Windows 7 64bit as the running machine on a Dell 780.

I see no reason why it won't work then :) Not really extra work, I was curious about whether it would work as well :) Let me know how you get on.

I like these puzzles; this is why I got into computers in the first place. When I have a new challenge like this I am so happy just like a kid with a new toy.

WindowsStar said:

Windows 7 64bit is the off-line hard drive. I will be using Windows 7 64bit as the running machine on a Dell 780.

I think that the free VMWare player can not run x64 hosts, for that you'll need VMWare Server, so install the latest Oracle VirtualBox and mount it there. VirtualBox can use vhd format, it doesn't have to be VirtualBox's own vdi format.

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