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

Published 2023-05-28
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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All Comments (21)
  • @TwilightsTale
    Finally, somebody explained nice and easy no long unnecessary talk thank you :)
  • @envirotech69
    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).
  • @yosue6718
    Gran tutorial, me ha servido mucho.
  • @bgaming7659
    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 ?
  • @rocw9494
    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?
  • @bertvantol9669
    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 ??
  • @rootcanal7188
    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).
  • @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?
  • @watsupimdanny
    Will the .vhdx work with VMware? Or should I uncheck as suggested for Virtualbox?
  • @BrGarcia
    Wheni try to make In windowsXP shows The msg:” disk2vhd inst a valid Win32 app” someone knows how resolve?
  • @darx9050
    What's the PIN 😅 and what generation is windows 10
  • @user-ul9tw1in7c
    @ mark 4:15 of video, it shows 2 hard drive images; I only got one. What possibly did I do wrong?