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I have some old XP machines running legacy software, which I would like to port over to a windows 7 machine.

I have been toying around getting the legacy software to run in Windows Virtual PC in XP mode, and natively on windows 7, but haven't been having much luck.

What I thought was, if i could take the CURRENT XP machine, and create a .VHD file from it, I could boot into it using Windows Virtual PC.

Is it possible to take say, a clone of a system, and make it into a .VHD to boot from a virtual PC utility?

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There is a tool exactly for this job called Disk2VHD - available from here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd

You can then mount the .VHD using a tool such as Oracle VirtualBox

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  • Couldn't have imagined an easier solution! Thank you.
    – Thom G
    Commented Sep 28, 2017 at 10:43
  • @ThomG - Seconded, I've used this on a few older machines for archiving them prior to reinstalling, and it's worked incredibly well. Damn fine little utility.
    – Alex
    Commented Sep 28, 2017 at 10:53
  • @spikey_richie I have created .VHDK file using disk2vhd utility. But it is not supported in Virtual Box ?
    – Rauf
    Commented Oct 5, 2017 at 12:07

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