Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
Id like to take my old windows laptop drive and image it so I can still use it in virtual box. For reference its a win 7 install on the drive.
Can I do this only using dd, and making the image an iso, and it will boot? Seems too easy!
What you are trying to do is called P2V, for Physical to Virtual. VMWare used to have tools specifically for this. I haven’t used them in a decade or more, but they likely still work. That should let you spin up the virtual system in VMWare Player (I’d test this before wiping the drive) and you can likely convert the resulting VM to other formats (e.g. VirtualBox). Again, test it out before wiping the drive, nothing sucks like discovering you lost data because you just had to rush things.