Newb Ques. - Create a disk image from a Slave HDD

[Sportzter]

Sorry if this question is rehashed or answered in the forums elsewhere, but I cant seem to find the answer to it either in the tutorials, manual or elsewhere.

I just installed VB 4.1.2. I have an older XP computer that recently died that I have slaved the HDD to my existing system to get file access. I would just like to Create an image of that HDD for use in VB so that I can boot the old system.

What software do I need to utilize to make the image of the older HDD so that I can create a guest with that image? VB is looking for various image types, however I cant see where I can make those image files from the VB manager.

Any help, direction or links to the specific threads would be most appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Jamie

[mpack]

Image the old drive using the free Disk2VHD tool (google for it).

That creates a VHD image, which although it can be used, is not ideal for VirtualBox. So next you use the CloneVDI tool (see sticky in "Windows Hosts" forum) to clone/convert the VHD to VDI, after which you can delete the VHD.

Search this site for mention of "P2V", because getting the disk image connected to a VM is only part of the story.

[Sportzter]

Much appreciated. I was scrambling around in the tutorials for this information and obviously, I had my troubles finding it.

The information was perfect and i am on my way to getting the image done.

Thanks again!

Jamie