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Now plug the external hard drive with the virtual Windows hard drive into your new PC or Mac and use the virtualization program of your choice to create – ideally the free VirtualBox, which is available for the desktop operating systems Windows, Linux and OS X - a new virtual PC. Run the archived Windows on the new machine with the free VirtualBox and create the virtual hard disk on an external (!) data carrier. After the process is complete, the program will promptly report "Disk Export to VHD completed successfully" without further ado. In this respect, it may make sense to let the process run overnight. Now all you have to do is click on “Create”: Depending on the load on the hard disk, Disk2VHD now needs quite a while to create the virtual copy of your Windows system as a file. Convert the system hard drives into a virtual hard drive file using Disk2VHD

For greater compatibility, you should always use the normal VHD format without the X suffix - so off the hook!. Apart from that, it will then be easier to transfer the file to the new computer.Īlso, be sure to uncheck "Use Vhdx" - this is a Microsoft updated format for the virtual hard drive that is with the in-house VirtualPC works great but causes problems for other programs. Important: You should only create the virtual disc on an external drive, such as a USB hard drive or a network drive, otherwise the program will have difficulties.

Set up Disk2VHD properlyĭisk2VHD itself has hardly any setting options: You only have to select a storage location and a file name under "VHD Filename", otherwise you can accept all the default settings.

The program works under all Windows versions from Windows XP Service Pack 2. Simply double-click the application file of the same name within the "Disk2VHD" ZIP directory and then select "Run". Since the program works as a portable version, nothing needs to be installed. The download is in the form of a ZIP file.