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You really need to provide more information.<br />
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For example, What server OS is it? &nbsp;Are you running Windows 7 home or Pro? &nbsp;Why not replace the failing drives?!?!? &nbsp;What virtualization solution did you want to use? &nbsp;Virtual PC, Virtual Box? &nbsp;Hyper-V? VMWare? &nbsp;Xen? etc.?
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You really need to provide more information.

For example, What server OS is it?  Are you running Windows 7 home or Pro?  Why not replace the failing drives?!?!?  What virtualization solution did you want to use?  Virtual PC, Virtual Box?  Hyper-V? VMWare?  Xen? etc.?

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OS is 2012, replacing the drives will be done and on order, but my thoughts were what if the server went down whilst awaiting the drives. Hyperv would be the virtualization. Is it just a question of installing HyperV on another well specked machine and importing the .vhd file ?
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OS is 2012, replacing the drives will be done and on order, but my thoughts were what if the server went down whilst awaiting the drives. Hyperv would be the virtualization. Is it just a question of installing HyperV on another well specked machine and importing the .vhd file ?

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Yes they are the steps I expected. I have used Disk2VHD before and imported into hyperv, but not set it up as in the above scenario. Will give that ago.
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Yes they are the steps I expected. I have used Disk2VHD before and imported into hyperv, but not set it up as in the above scenario. Will give that ago.

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If I have a Windows server, and say some drives in the server are displaying as faulty and as a precaution I want to virtualize the OS and move it to a Windows 7 machine for example, how would I go about this. The virtualization part I gather is pretty simple using a virtualization &nbsp;tool, but how could I get it running in say a Windows 7 machine ?
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If I have a Windows server, and say some drives in the server are displaying as faulty and as a precaution I want to virtualize the OS and move it to a Windows 7 machine for example, how would I go about this. The virtualization part I gather is pretty simple using a virtualization  tool, but how could I get it running in say a Windows 7 machine ?

Virtualisation

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.