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Best way to virtualize Vista from orphaned hard drive - tonyaldr - 11-04-2014
Hi. Just had my utility HP mobo fry which was running Windows Vista and need to get to some utilities I had installed there. Is there a way to virtualize the hard drive to run in Oracle Vitualbox if I hook up the drive to my other PC with a SATA to USB connector? I tried once with Disk2VHD but didn't have good results. Appreciate any advice. Thx!!
RE: Best way to virtualize Vista from orphaned hard drive - Britec - 11-04-2014
Hi Tony, Welcome to the forum.
You could remove the hard drive and put it in a docking station or enclosure.
1. BLACK 2.5 SATA to USB HARD DRIVE CADDY HDD CASE ENCLOSURE
2. 3.5" 2.5" SATA + IDE HDD HARD DRIVE DISK DOCK DOCKING STATION USB HUB E-SATA
RE: Best way to virtualize Vista from orphaned hard drive - tonyaldr - 11-04-2014
(11-04-2014, 12:31 PM)Britec Wrote: Hi Tony, Welcome to the forum.
You could remove the hard drive and put it in a docking station or enclosure.
1. BLACK 2.5 SATA to USB HARD DRIVE CADDY HDD CASE ENCLOSURE
2. 3.5" 2.5" SATA + IDE HDD HARD DRIVE DISK DOCK DOCKING STATION USB HUB E-SATA
Thx. I had already figured that, but what preferred method would you use to virtualize? I had not had good success with disk2vhd and if possible would like to avoid the Windows activation issues which plague some of my virtualizations.
RE: Best way to virtualize Vista from orphaned hard drive - Britec - 11-04-2014
Try this tool
Virtualization Manager 14 Professional