Disk2vhd is a tool 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) or Latest KVM Hypervisor.
Steps to Convert Windows 2003 Physical System to VHD format
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1.Download disk2vhd tool from below link into windows server 2003
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
2.Extaract Disk2vhd.zip file
3.Run or double click disk2chd.exe, it will pupup a windows with all drives selected.On it select the drive you would like to convert into VHD format. De-select other drives and only keep selected C drive.
For now we need to convert only C Drive, so select only C Drive.Please find enclosed image.
4.At VHD File Name:
Browse a target location where we want to store or save VHD. Make sure we have sufficient space on it.Means we should have free space on target drive as C drive' data size.
5.Click on Create to start conversion process.
6.Once the conversion process completed, click Close to close the tool.
Steps to Convert Windows 2003 Physical System to VHD format
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1.Download disk2vhd tool from below link into windows server 2003
http://technet.microsoft.com/
2.Extaract Disk2vhd.zip file
3.Run or double click disk2chd.exe, it will pupup a windows with all drives selected.On it select the drive you would like to convert into VHD format. De-select other drives and only keep selected C drive.
For now we need to convert only C Drive, so select only C Drive.Please find enclosed image.
4.At VHD File Name:
Browse a target location where we want to store or save VHD. Make sure we have sufficient space on it.Means we should have free space on target drive as C drive' data size.
5.Click on Create to start conversion process.
6.Once the conversion process completed, click Close to close the tool.
does it support thin provisioning?
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