Once the VM was up and running, I connected the USB drive to the VM Rescue CD that I use for partitioning and disk backups. Machine with a virtual disk the same size as the physical disk. I started VirtualBox and created a new virtual Indicate that the partition was in working order and the data

Handy laptop disk caddy lying around in my office which enables you toĬonvert a laptop hard disk into an external USB drive, so I took theĭisk out of the laptop and put it in that. The first thing to do is clone the disk into VirtualBox. Is foolish enough to try this in the future. So, I thought I'd document what I did for the benefits of anyone who Since it seems that several other people have tried to import anĮxisting Windows XP installation into VirtualBox and had problems doing Having to install everything from scratch, and I've become quite a big Into Windows (no boot device, apparently). Of its own accord whilst compiling some code and now no longer boots it still runs the POST checks OK - but it won't rebooted Not a complete 'nothing happens when I turn it on' kind of death

On Monday morning one of the laptops I use for developing softwareĭied. Importing an Existing Windows XP Installation into VirtualBox Wednesday, 03 June 2009

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