Questions tagged [disk2vhd]
Disk2vhd is a utility from Sysinternals that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).
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How to call disk2vhd to create a VHDX for use as a VM and exlcude the D: drive
The documentation on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd is minimal, and doesn't seem to cover the use case of how to specify multiple volumes for backup, assuming that ...
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Disk2vhd.exe not showing a connected disk
I have a weird problem on Disk2vhd.exe, while the disk is connected via a SATA cable for sure (That I can boot it without touching the computer lid proves it) and also the disk is recognized in Disk ...
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disk2vhd64 - Copying volume with boot information via command line
I'm having a problem creating a vhdx file using disk2vhd64 in command line. I don't know how to add \?\Volume{...} to vhdx file since drives can be specified like c: or so. I'm using this manual https:...
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I'm Using disk2vhd and virtualbox. How do I disable Windows XP IDE checks so that it starts up without an IDE related BSOD?
I am setting up a virtual machine to host a Windows XP environment with specific legacy software to replace a customer's broken Dell MTC2 desktop. I used Disk2vhd to generate a VHD from the customer's ...
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VirtualBox P2V Win7 FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE
There are 3 other topics with this title. Only 1 has an answer, it doesn't help in my situation. I have gone from physical 2 virtual VHD once before, 10 years ago. I didn't have any problems, so I am ...
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How do I debug a boot failure after transferring a physical machine to a virtual disk? INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x0000007B)
I have tried numerous fixes for a Windows 10 blue screen with error code INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x0000007B) after transferring a physical machine to a virtual disk using Disk2vhd. I am basically ...
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Boot windows on virt-manager from an image that fetched from existing Windows on a different computer
I have a PC laptop with Windows 10, it has two hard drives, one for windows that is separated with UEFI, windows and data partition, and another hard drive that has some more apps installed on it.
I ...
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Converting a physical machine to a bootable Hyper-V VM
I'm trying to convert a physical machine to become a Hyper-V VM. I've used Disk2VHD to create .vdhx images of the required drives.
What I'm struggling with is how I should create a Hyper-V image so ...
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Disk2vhd error during copy file system limitation
I have a laptop with windows 7 I'm not using at the moment and want to make vhd images for backup purposes so that the laptop can be used by someone else.
While disk2vhd is processing the c drive I ...
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Physical disk 1 not showing on disk2vhd.exe
I open up Computer Management, I shrank my drive by 30 gigabytes and formatted the shrank space to the NTFS file system. I didn't add a volume label added default to Allocation unit size and checked ...
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Initialize Disk - Will It Wipe my data?
I have four disks from a Buffalo Terrastation NAS which were setup in a RAID5 configuration. The terrastation apparently runs a linux based software RAID.
Unfortunately one disk has failed entirely, ...
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Moving a Windows 10 installation to VHDX file and boot from it
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I have a new ASUS G752VL-DH71 laptop. I would like to make a backup of the current installation of Windows 10 in the form of a virtual hard disk file (VHDX) and I would like to be able to ...
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Can't boot vhdx in hyper-v after creation with disk2vdh
I am trying to take a machine from a physical machine to a virtual. I created a vhdx of the hard drive with the systinternals disk2vhd tool.
The vhdx is on a usb hard drive. I attached the drive to ...
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How to convert Windows 8.1 live machine to bootable .vhd and run it in VirtualBox?
I tried converting my PC using disk2vhd several times with no success. I check all partitions including hidden system partitions and create single .vhd file from it. I did it before with Windows XP ...
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How to open .VHDX files in virtualbox?
I used disk2vhd by microsoft so I tried to create a new virtualbox using it and I got this error
Failed to open the hard disk C:\Users\user\Documents\Virtual Box Images\win7vir.VHDX
Could not open ...
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