P2V - Physical to Virtual

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1. Use Disk2VHD (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx) from sysinternals.com to create VHDs from the disks in the physical machine
2. Install Virtual PC 
3. Create virtual machine pointing at the VHD files as the virtual HDs
4. If the virtual machine blue screens with a "Stop 0x0000007B" when starting then the device drivers aren't right, most likely the disk physical machine didn't have drivers for the IDE disks that Virtual PC provides, see  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314082
	a. In order to follow the KB you need to mount the VHD and change it's registry:
	On Win 7
		diskpart
		select vdisk file="path to .vhd"
		attach vdisk
		[seems to auto assign drive letters]
		
	Then copy driver files to appropriate location on mounted .vhd.
		
		regedit 
			
	Select HKLM or HKUSER or else load hive is grayed out
			
		File | Load Hive 
		
	(the registry hives http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724877(VS.85).aspx are in the %SystemRoot%\System32\Config directory)

	Edit registry as mentioned in the above KB article
		
		Select the loaded hive
			
			File | Unload Hive
		
			DISKPART> detach vdisk