Disk2vhd 1.0

5.0 out of 5 stars

(October 7, 2009)

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows 2003/2008/Vista/XP / Freeware / 231 downloads

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoftâ??s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system thatâ??s online. Disk2vhd uses Windowsâ?? Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

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    Reviewing 1.0 (Oct 8, 2009)

    This new addition to the Sysinternals utilities does what it claims, but it will disappoint people who assume they're getting a complete P2V tool. This is only a disk conversion tool. If the disk you're converting is a system (boot) drive, don't expect it to work properly as-is when booted into Virtual PC, Virtual Server, or Hyper-V. At best, it may boot and you will have to fix minor driver issues yourself. At worst, it may not boot at all or may require safe mode to boot. Also keep in mind that Microsoft never backported their large VHD support from Virtual Server back to Virtual PC, so even if you're using the latest version of Virtual PC, you can't use a VHD larger than 137 GB like you can with Virtual Server or Hyper-V.

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