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Disk2vhd is a free to use utility from Sysinternals which creates virtual hard disk ( Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) version of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC orMicrosoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).

Disk2vhd doesn’t require any installation and using it is as easy as launching, selecting the drives you would like to create into a virtual disk, giving the file a name, and clicking the Create button.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).

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.

Once you’ve created your virtual drive, you can use the free Microsoft Virtual PC to boot the image of your PC, which you can then use for testing, or just as a great way to completely backup your computer. Disk2vhd is a free download for Windows only.

Via Lifehacker

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