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Disk2vhd v2.01

01/21/2014

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By Mark Russinovich

Published: January 21, 2014

Introduction

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft'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 that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows'

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).

The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system:

It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside.

It preserves the partitioning information of the disk, but only copies

the data contents for volumes on the disk that are selected. This

enables you to capture just system volumes and exclude data volumes, for

example.

Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB. If

you create a VHD from a larger disk it will not be accessible from a

Virtual PC VM.

To use VHDs produced by Disk2vhd, create a VM with the desired

characteristics and add the VHDs to the VM's configuration as IDE disks.

On first boot, a VM booting a captured copy of Windows will detect the

VM's hardware and automatically install drivers, if present in the

image. If the required drivers are not present, install them via the

Virtual PC or Hyper-V integration components. You can also attach to

VHDs using the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Management or

Diskpart utilities.

Do not attach to VHDs on the same system on which you created

them if you plan on booting from them. If you do so, Windows will

assign the VHD a new disk signature to avoid a collision with the

signature of the VHD’s source disk. Windows references disks in the

boot configuration database (BCD) by disk signature, so when that

happens Windows booted in a VM will fail to locate the boot disk.

Disk2vhd does not support the conversion of volumes with Bitlocker enabled. If you wish to create a VHD for such a volume, turn off Bitlocker and wait for the volume to be fully decrypted first.

Disk2vhd runs on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and higher,

including x64 systems.

Here's a screenshot of a copy of a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V system

running in a virtual machine on top of the system it was made from:

(click image to zoom)

Command Line Usage

Disk2vhd includes command-line options that enable you to script the

creation of VHDs. Specify the volumes you want included in a snapshot by

drive letter (e.g. c:) or use "*" to include all volumes.

Usage: disk2vhd

Example: disk2vhd * c:\vhd\snapshot.vhd

Physical-to-virtual hard drive migration of a Windows

installation is a valid function for customers with Software Assurance

and full retail copies of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.

Software Assurance provides users valuable benefits—please contact

Microsoft Corporation for further information. Windows XP, Windows

Vista and Windows 7 installed by Original Equipment Manufacturers

(OEM) using OEM versions of these products may not be transferred to a

virtual hard drive in accordance with Microsoft licensing terms.