How to create virtual machine from physical hdd?

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1nd1go2020-08-06 22:31:16

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1nd1go, 2020-08-06 22:31:16

Greetings. There is a hdd with a win7 system from a machine that is no longer serviceable. I would like to remove an image of a virtual machine from it and run it in some kind of oracle virtualbox. Is it possible? Are there programs that can do this?

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Karpion, 2020-08-07
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Capture a disk image to a file - well, the dd program is built into Linux/FreeBSD, there is a Windows port. Then you need to convert this file into a virtual machine image - it seems that there are tools in the virtual machine manager.

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CityCat4, 2020-08-07
@CityCat4

In VB I don't know if there is such a tool, in VmWare it definitely is, though it requires a working Windows. If Windows is dead and does not start - then remove the image of the screw (here you can try the tuzla from VB, from StarWind, dd, the mentioned Karpion - then it's true then still distill into vdi or vmdk - create a machine without a screw, and then slip the finished screw. I somehow solved such a problem - it was necessary to remove the image of the ancient FreeBSD installed in 2004 - dd, then the Starwind converter to vmdk - took off.