{"id":544,"date":"2014-03-12T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T06:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2021-05-13T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T07:18:00","slug":"convert-physical-disk-to-virtual-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/convert-physical-disk-to-virtual-disk\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Convert Physical Disk To Virtual Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this guide, you can learn how to convert physical disk to virtual disk (VHD, VMDK and VDI) with the help of physical to VM converter.<\/p>\n<h1>Convert physical disk to virtual disk<\/h1>\n<p>Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager through 20112 provides a function that convert existing physical machines to Hyper-V virtual machine, by which you can convert physical disk to virtual disk (.vhd). If you want to convert physical disk to other virtual disk types, such as, VMDK and VDI, then you can use <em>PartitionGuru<\/em> to get the desired result.<\/p>\n<h1>Step-by-step guide to convert physical disk to virtual disk<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Step 1<\/strong>: Download, install and launch PartitionGuru to get the following interface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2<\/strong>: Create virtual disk with PartitionGuru. Click menu items one by one \u201cDisk\u201d-\u201cCreate New Virtual Disk files\u201d, and then select virtual disk type you want.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/manual\/img\/create-virtual-pc-disk-file-01.png\" alt=\"clone hard drive to virtual disk\" width=\"671\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3<\/strong>: Use the function <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/manual\/clone-disk.php\"><strong><em>Clone Disk<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>to copy the physical disk to virtual disk you just created by dint of \u201cCopy all sectors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/manual\/img\/clone-disk-01.png\" alt=\"clone hard drive to virtual disk\" width=\"668\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diskgenius.com\/how-to\/disk2vhd.php\">Disk2vhd &#8211; Convert Physical Machine to Virtual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/disk-to-vhd\/\">Disk to VHD \u2013 Convert Physical Disk to VHD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this guide, you can learn how to convert physical disk to virtual disk (VHD, VMDK and VDI) with the help of physical to VM converter. Convert physical disk to virtual disk Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager through 20112 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/convert-physical-disk-to-virtual-disk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[122,121,29],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-pg","tag-convert-p2v","tag-convert-physical-disk-to-virtual-disk","tag-partitionguru","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eassos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}