I am a bit of a newb with virtual machines, so go easy on me. I am currently dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista. I want to convert the Vista installation into a virtual machine, and then remove that physical partition (the virtual hard disk will be on my USB drive).
I managed to create a virtual hard disk of Vista using the 'Disk2vhd' application. However, when I try to create a virtual machine in Virtual PC 2007 (running on my Windows 7), Vista doesn't load. Safe load doesn't work either, and gets stuck on crcdisk.sys.
Any ideas on what might be happening?
Best Answer
You could try VMWare Converter and then VMDK2VHD. NOTE: You can find a copy of VMDK2VHD on the net without having to sign into that site.
I have not used VMWare converter for P2V convertions, but I have used VMDK2VHD to convert a VMware image over to HyperV.
YMMV but this may help you out.
Also, a cloning tool like clonezilla or ghost can assist in creating a disk image that you could then restore inside the virtual machine.