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There is a Sysinternals tool to create a VHD (which is the standard format for a drive used by VirtualPC/Hyper-V).

Disk2VHD

##Disk2VHD http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

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I assume you could add to it at a later date although I haven't confirmed this.

For some reason 'volume shadow copy failed' for me but I was trying to backup an external drive that wasn't my boot drive so I could safely just turn it off.

There is a Sysinternals tool to create a VHD (which is the standard format for a drive used by VirtualPC/Hyper-V).

##Disk2VHD http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

enter image description here

I assume you could add to it at a later date although I haven't confirmed this.

For some reason 'volume shadow copy failed' for me but I was trying to backup an external drive that wasn't my boot drive so I could safely just turn it off.

There is a Sysinternals tool to create a VHD (which is the standard format for a drive used by VirtualPC/Hyper-V).

Disk2VHD

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

enter image description here

I assume you could add to it at a later date although I haven't confirmed this.

For some reason 'volume shadow copy failed' for me but I was trying to backup an external drive that wasn't my boot drive so I could safely just turn it off.

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There is a Sysinternals tool to create a VHD (which is the standard format for a drive used by VirtualPC/Hyper-V).

##Disk2VHD http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

enter image description here

I assume you could add to it at a later date although I haven't confirmed this.

For some reason 'volume shadow copy failed' for me but I was trying to backup an external drive that wasn't my boot drive so I could safely just turn it off.