How to convert a Physical PC into a Virtual Machine with Disk2VHD P2V

Use Disk2VHD free tool from Microsoft SysInternals to convert
your Windows PC to a VM in Hyper-V. Use this method to convert Windows 7 PC to a Virtual Machine so to keep using old applications like Internet Explorer or use it also on any version of Windows Vista, 10 or Windows 11
Disk2VHD will export any Windows PC to VHD or VHDX

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00:00 Intro & video topics
00:50 Export the Windows PC to a VM (VHDX)
04:18 Import the PC into a VM in Hyper-V
07:35 How to fix no login in Hyper-V
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[TwilightsTale]

Finally, somebody explained nice and easy no long unnecessary talk thank you :)

[envirotech]

One important note: if you sign in to windows with a Microsoft account (i.e. PIN, Hello sign-in, etc.), you may not be able to sign in once you create a Hyper-V virtual machine with the resulting virtual disk, since Hyper-V will only allow signing in through a local account with remote desktop access permissions (perhaps an MS account would work if you disable the “Require Windows Hello” sign in option within windows user account sign in options).

[litewavve]

Nice! Seems much easier to do than running on VMware. Is there any OS license issue?

[michaeljoblin]

Very easy to follow along, thank you!

[bgaming]

hi i have an old windows 7 hard drive it has photos and videos but i tried to boot up from the biosin my laptop but it wont start can this help i can pay ?

[syafiq]

why i only have 1 disk once the convert is finish even my psychical pc have 2 disk, disk C and D?

[rosa]

there are plenty of videos for a physical machine that is working fine... any way to do it for a pull out hardisk from a non working computer ?

[rootcanal]

Thank you. The problem with any OS inside a virtual machine is that you only have half the total RAM to work with. I have ran into freezing even running lightweight Linux distros inside Virtualbox. (My host PC has 4 GB RAM (3.9 GB available), so the virtual machine only can get 1.9 GB of RAM).

[rocw]

Thank you for the tutorial, very helpful. I would like to know, if the VM will
fail if partition drives are not included in the conversion?

[bertvantol]

Question:
I have Windows 11 running on my iMac. But there is no sound ....
Now I have seen Fedora 39 Linux, my plan is to make my Windows to a virtual machine.
After then I want to make Fedora 39 my main system and import my Windows 11 to a virual machine into Fedora.
Question: How to do this ??

[blackguy-ijij]

Can I do this with just the HDD from another machine

[BrGarcia]

Wheni try to make In windowsXP shows The msg:” disk2vhd inst a valid Win32 app” someone knows how resolve?

[alanhf]

My disk2vhd gets stuck at the end of the process. I wait for 5 hours and nothing.
Any suggestions?! Thanks

[Vladikaon]

I have an old PC with Windows 7 Ultimate, but unfortunately it is a cracked version. Will I still be able to convert it to a VM and run it on Hyper-V in Windows 11 Pro?

[Theblackquack]

Thank you, but... For Linux machines?

[ultwinc]

@ mark 4:15 of video, it shows 2 hard drive images; I only got one. What possibly did I do wrong?

[ParadoxicalMuslim]

how can i get multiple audio upload option?

[darx]

What's the PIN 😅 and what generation is windows 10

[watsupimdanny]

Will the .vhdx work with VMware? Or should I uncheck as suggested for Virtualbox?

[matepozzo]

can you run the windows virtua image in linux?