The spread and popularity of virtual machines is growing in recent times, perhaps by improving the hardware of the machines in circulation (virtual machines require a large amount of memory on the host system).
May be useful to transform their physical system into a virtual disk, then through the famous lanciabile Microsoft Virtual PC. Complete with dedicated software.
We download the software first, named Disk2VHD, the official Microsoft page. Launched on the executable, you must then accept the license. We are therefore faced with a screen similar to what is visible in the opening, which will list all the partitions recognized by the system, each accompanied by its size (divided into space used and free space) and the label allocated .
From the list of units, we can select those you want included in the transformation process or not simply by checking the box to the left of each item, then click the Create button.
The next few moments of waiting during which the contents of the disc will be transferred to the indicated position VHD File Name field editable from the main interface. Feature particularly interesting application is the ability to create virtual drive partition system, which affects various software impediment of kindred nature.
The completion of the procedure will be accompanied by a confirmation message. The virtual disk was created successfully, we can close the program.
Trasferiamoci now to Virtual PC, accessible from the Start menu. Click on Create a virtual machine, in the blue bar at the top.
Name the car, definitene their settings such as the amount of RAM to be allocated, network connections, and other details by following the instructions displayed on screen, but dwell in particular on the phase of creating the virtual hard disk. Here, check the voice Use existing virtual hard disk and enter the path of the file created earlier with Disk2VHD.
Continue creating the virtual machine with Create. You are ready, you can launch the new machine is created with a double click, it will have as a local disk that your PC’s physical, extrapolated with Disk2VHD previously.
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