You can also attach to VHDs using the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Disk Management or Diskpart utilities. If the required drivers are not present, install them via the Virtual PC or Hyper-V integration components. On first boot, a VM booting a captured copy of Windows will detect the VM's hardware and automatically install drivers, if present in the image. To use VHDs produced by Disk2vhd, create a VM with the desired characteristics and add the VHDs to the VM's configuration as IDE disks. If you create a VHD from a larger disk it will not be accessible from a Virtual PC VM. Note: Virtual PC supports a maximum virtual disk size of 127GB.
This enables you to capture just system volumes and exclude data volumes, for example. It preserves the partitioning information of the disk, but only copies the data contents for volumes on the disk that are selected. It will create one VHD for each disk on which selected volumes reside. The Disk2vhd user interface lists the volumes present on the system. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted). Disk2vhd uses Windows' Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that's online.
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