Windows Space » Disk to VHD http://vipultaneja.com ME Exploring PC Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:01:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Windows Sysinternals Suite Updated and Up for Grabs http://vipultaneja.com/windows-sysinternals-suite-updated-and-up-for-grabs-97 http://vipultaneja.com/windows-sysinternals-suite-updated-and-up-for-grabs-97#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:50:55 +0000 Admin http://vipultaneja.com/2009/12/windows-sysinternals-suite-updated-and-up-for-grabs/ Windows Sysinternals Suite Updated and Up for Grabs 2 Windows Sysinternals Suite Updated and Up for GrabsAt just a month since the last refresh of Windows Sysinternals, Microsoft has introduced a new update designed to kick up a notch a few components of the collection of tools developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell. According to Curtis Metz, program manager, Microsoft Sysinternals, the latest range of updates push to the next level VMMap v2.5, Disk2vhd v1.4; Sigcheck v1.63; Autoruns v9.57; PsExec v1.97; and PsKill v1.13. Users already familiar with the Sysinternals utilities should not expect to see any major changes in the latest release of the suite. In fact, the updates are focused on minor tweaks and bug fixes.
“VMMap v2.5: This update to VMMap, a process memory analysis utility, now identifies thread environment blocks (TEBs), the process environment block (PEB), and reserved memory,” Metz said. “Disk2vhd v1.4: Now includes an option for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that directs it to fix up the kernel and HAL to make the VHDs generated for these systems bootable in Virtual PC. It also skips sectors with CRC errors to enable the conversion of systems with failing disks.”
Disk2vhd is one of tools only recently added to the Sysinternals suite, and designed to streamline the transfer of physical installations of Windows into guest platforms set up to run… (read more)

]]> http://vipultaneja.com/windows-sysinternals-suite-updated-and-up-for-grabs-97/feed 0 Disk 2 VHD converter and utility http://vipultaneja.com/disk-2-vhd-converter-and-utility-19 http://vipultaneja.com/disk-2-vhd-converter-and-utility-19#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:41:32 +0000 Admin http://vipultaneja.com/?p=19 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:

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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.

Note: 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.

Note: 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 runs Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, 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:

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