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Physical machine to Hyper v virtual machine

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  Migrating Physical machine to virtual machine in Hyper V   Install / Run Disk2vhd:   Disk2vhd is a utility 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). Open Disk2vhd to generate vhdx files from local hard drive.   Download it from the below link. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd Install or run this file from the system that is to be converted to virtual machine and select the relevant volumes to be converted to vhdx files.   Fig 1. Disk2vhd console with volumes to include and vhd save location Make sure the checkboxes “Use Vhdx” & “Use Volume Shadow Copy “is selected. Fig 2 vhdx creation process Fig 3. File format This generates a vhdk file that contains the hyper v disk format. Make sure all the volumes are selected in conjunction with operating system volume. Copy over the file to an HDD...