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Hi. Just had my utility HP mobo fry which was running Windows Vista and need to get to some utilities I had installed there. Is there a way to virtualize the hard drive to run in Oracle Vitualbox if I hook up the drive to my other PC with a SATA to USB connector? I tried once with Disk2VHD but didn't have good results. Appreciate any advice. Thx!!

Hi Tony, Welcome to the forum.

You could remove the hard drive and put it in a docking station or enclosure.

1. BLACK 2.5 SATA to USB HARD DRIVE CADDY HDD CASE ENCLOSURE

2. 3.5" 2.5" SATA + IDE HDD HARD DRIVE DISK DOCK DOCKING STATION USB HUB E-SATA

(11-04-2014, 12:31 PM)Britec Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Tony, Welcome to the forum.

You could remove the hard drive and put it in a docking station or enclosure.

1. BLACK 2.5 SATA to USB HARD DRIVE CADDY HDD CASE ENCLOSURE

2. 3.5" 2.5" SATA + IDE HDD HARD DRIVE DISK DOCK DOCKING STATION USB HUB E-SATA

Thx. I had already figured that, but what preferred method would you use to virtualize? I had not had good success with disk2vhd and if possible would like to avoid the Windows activation issues which plague some of my virtualizations.

Try this tool


Virtualization Manager 14 Professional