Restoring a drive image on VM Box guest machine

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ittiandro
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Restoring a drive image on VM Box guest machine

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I’m on Windows 10 Home and I want to restore on a VBox a drive image of my wife’s PC that runs on Windows 7 Home.

To this effect, I have created a Drive Image of my wife’s Windows 7 PC with the Aomei Backupper and the Drive image is now stored in an external USB Flash drive of my PC .

I have created a VM BOX with Windows 10 Pro as a guest OS , installed the VM Box Extension Pack and set the USB setting of the guest machine to connect to the external USB drive containing the Windows 7 drive image.
My VM Box is an older 5.2.44 version. It is the only one that works with Windows 32-bits, because because the later versions are for 64-bits OS and I am on 32-bits.

Can I restore the Windows 7 Drive mage ( my wife’s PC) from my USB external drive onto my Windows 10 guest machine.? If so, how.?
I read a previous thread of a few years ago on this topic, but it is of no help because very dispersive and doesn’t give instructions.


Thank you

Ittiandro
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