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Create VHD versions of physical disks with new Sysinternals utility

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Mitch Irsfeld posted a blog entry talking about a new tool called Disk2vhd from Sysinternals.

From the Disk2vhd page:

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).

I won't have the time to check out the new tool today. But, I plan on downloading it and using it early next week.

Have a great weekend!

Clint Schroeder