I have a VHD file that was created by a citrix provisioning server. It is specific to a computer model. I was wanting to transfer the vhd onto the physical disk. Can anyone think of a way to do this? I then want to be able to boot off the physical hard disk like it was before I converted it to vdisk (vhd) It is a windows 7 vhd. Thanks
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Exact Duplicate: superuser.com/questions/40294/copying-a-vhd-to-a-physical-disk– Mark HendersonJul 28, 2010 at 5:19
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On this page you will find two programs, each for x86-32 and x86-64 bit. It is a free tool to dump the VHD contents/structure to a physical drive (e.g. a HDD). forum.sysinternals.com/vhd2disk_topic27311.html– AD GFeb 9, 2015 at 22:08
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since its win7 just boot the vhd natively!
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799299(WS.10).aspx
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1That means I have to have an OS on there already (windows 7). Not quite what I had in mind. I ended up using a program called macrium reflect to clone the vdisk to a physical hard drive in a sata caddy.– JohnyVAug 9, 2010 at 2:20
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@johnyV no boot from vhd does not require an OS already there, it just boots the vhd as a filesystem. Aug 9, 2010 at 17:06
There are various P-to-V and V-to-P utilities on the market. There is more than likely one that can convert a VHD back onto a physical drive.
Outside of that route, you can also setup a VM to mount the VHD along side the RAW physical disk. You can then transfer the VHD to the physical drive with any various partition utility, backup application, etc.
answered Jul 28, 2010 at 14:23
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