{"id":24495,"date":"2022-06-26T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=24495"},"modified":"2022-06-27T19:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:55:33","slug":"windows-create-system-image-with-disk2vhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24495\/windows-create-system-image-with-disk2vhd\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: Create system image with Disk2VHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disk2VHD is a small tool for creating disk images in Windows.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Disk2VHD is a small software tool from Microsoft that can convert disks to VHD format. VHD stands for Virtual Hard Disk. A VHD file can be mounted as a virtual drive in Windows, also a use as a base as a virtual machine is possible. This allows old computers or the system to be backed up or archived before disposal.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ca7zpDSunFM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24495\/windows-create-system-image-with-disk2vhd\/#Create_system_image_with_Disk2VHD\" >Create system image with Disk2VHD<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24495\/windows-create-system-image-with-disk2vhd\/#Integrate_image_into_Windows\" >Integrate image into Windows<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/24495\/windows-create-system-image-with-disk2vhd\/#Create_virtual_machine_with_VirtualBox\" >Create virtual machine with VirtualBox<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Create_system_image_with_Disk2VHD\"><\/span>Create system image with Disk2VHD<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First we download &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/disk2vhd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disk2hd<\/a>&#8221; from the Microsoft homepage. <\/p>\n<p>The download is a ZIP file, which simply needs to be unzipped. A total of 3 variants are included. For 32-bit, 64-bit and for arm systems.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"372\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_1.png 483w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_1-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the start the user interface opens, here the current disks and partitions are displayed. Here we select the partitions to be backed up and then the target file. As an option we can specify whether we want to create a VHD file or a VHDX file. VHDX is the newer format, for VM use the old format should be used. Also we can specify if we want to use the disk for a virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_2.png 525w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_2-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a click on &#8220;Create&#8221; we are ready to go. When finished, we will find the virtual hard disk on our target disk.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Integrate_image_into_Windows\"><\/span>Integrate image into Windows<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The image contains all data or partitions, which we are selected before the creation. The file can then be mounted as a drive in the system, for example, to be able to read files.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting is done via the disk management. Here we insert the virtual hard disk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"219\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_3.png 701w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_3-300x94.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If no drive letter is assigned to the partition, we have to do that afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_4.png 809w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_4-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_4-768x340.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once this is done, we can access the data via the explorer. The disk can be used just like a &#8220;normal&#8221; drive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_5.png 561w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_5-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Create_virtual_machine_with_VirtualBox\"><\/span>Create virtual machine with VirtualBox<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Based on the virtual hard disk, we can create a virtual machine, for example, with VirtualBox. With this we can transfer existing computers into a virtual machine. <\/p>\n<p>For VirtualBox, currently only the VHD format can be used. When creating the virtual machine, we do not create a new disk, but select the VHD file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_6.png 569w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_6-300x264.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that, our system starts in the virtual machine. For better use, it is recommended to install the guest extensions afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"657\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_7.jpg 801w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_7-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vhd_en_7-768x630.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disk2VHD is a small tool for creating disk images in Windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-24495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}