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My previous little project here:
forums.anandtech.com
... gave me an idea. A customer's old PC essentially died, so I used sysinternals' disk2vhd, which created a vhdx file that Virtualbox claims to handle but apparently can't, so I followed this guide here with this command:
I converted it to vdi format which VB can handle, then set up a basic Win10 VM and now I can boot the old PC's install of Windows on the new PC. Yay!
Info - Successfully transferred a Windows install from one disk to another without disk cloning (WIM)
I have a bit of a problem, and my experiment today gets me a (AFAIK fairly definitive) step further towards fixing said problem. Last year, I had the bright idea of using Windows's own disk mirroring system (disk management > dynamic disk > add mirror) as per Microsoft's instructions for two...
forums.anandtech.com
... gave me an idea. A customer's old PC essentially died, so I used sysinternals' disk2vhd, which created a vhdx file that Virtualbox claims to handle but apparently can't, so I followed this guide here with this command:
Code:
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\Virtualbox\VBoxManage.exe" clonemedium disk D:\path\to\image.vhdx D:\path\to\newimage.vdi --format vdiI converted it to vdi format which VB can handle, then set up a basic Win10 VM and now I can boot the old PC's install of Windows on the new PC. Yay!
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