Can an existing Windows 7 installation be used as a virtual machine in Virtual Box?
Hi there, I have a customer's laptop that has a failed mother board.
He does not want to fix it and has purchased another w8 laptop.
He has asked if it is possible to take his intact hard drive (windows 7 Installation) and make it into a virtual machine file so he can still use some legacy software he cant run in windows 8 and does not have the installation any longer.
Can this be done, if so how?
Cheers.
He does not want to fix it and has purchased another w8 laptop.
He has asked if it is possible to take his intact hard drive (windows 7 Installation) and make it into a virtual machine file so he can still use some legacy software he cant run in windows 8 and does not have the installation any longer.
Can this be done, if so how?
Cheers.
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You can also get a trial of WinImage, you will be able to create a VHD of the laptop drive. You can then set up Hyper-V on Windows 8 to host the VM.
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Thanks for the responses, will give the suggested options a shot and let you all know how I get on and which suggestion works best for me.
So, connect the hard disk to another computer, create a disk image of it, restore the disk image to a virtual machine...