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Accessing physical disk from VirtualBox: Access Denied

I am trying to run a VirtualBox machine from a physical disk. I read that I have to run "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\...
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Extract files from disk raw image

I have two raw images of some old IDE HDD (one made without of any data correction and second made with). Trying to mount the images to the system by various methods do not work properly. I use ...
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How to create a image of a HDD without the unallocated space?

I need to convert this HDD containing a Windows installation to a *.vdi in order to create a bootable *.img WITHOUT the unallocated space. Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /...
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How to clone & restore virtual box hard drive

What I want to do is to clone my virtual box HDD with dual boot os. XP and Vista. I'm using Acronis and back it up on a flash drive. And end up with the flash drive that is partitioned. 2 partitions ...
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