Starting system from the cloned .VHD disk

[Jana Idol]

Hi Hi,

I use RawDiskCopier which creates identical copies of the disk in .vhd format.

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www.github .com/TalAloni/RawDiskCopier

I would like to know if I can run such a copy of the system e.g. Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 in virtualbox?
I tried adding (directly) the disk but it doesn't seem to work.

Do you have any tips for me to achieve starting system, please?

[scottgus1]

Getting a copy of a computer's drive to run in a VM is called "Physical to Virtual", or P2V. The whole drive with all partitions needs to be copied.

The go-to app for this on the Virtualbox forum is Microsoft Sysinternals Disk2VHD. If you're not dead set on Raw Disk Copier, try Disk2VHD instead. Copy all the partitions off the source drive to a VHD (not VHDx) then try to set up the VM as close to the source computer as possible: OS type, EFI or Legacy BIOS, etc.

Also websearch:
(The source OS) P2V site: forums.virtualbox.org