Hi all
For what he wants to do I would use acronis. There are free copies of this
superb program around.
1) In windows defrag the hard disk.
2) Install acronis
3) create iso of acronis
4) back up hard disk Use the acronis program to check that the partition was
backed up ok.
5) create partition of 14GB
6) install backup using acronis to this new disk
7) make this bootable then run windows to check it runs ok
8) VMware has tools to convert this to VMware system
9) Virtual disk can convert this to virtual disk system
John Eayrs
On Monday 20 April 2009 15:25:35 Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying out virtual box in an attempt to avoid having to reboot my dual
> boot machine again :).
>
> I've removed all the junk from my Windows partition and it now only uses
> up 13 gigs.
>
> What I would like to do is to create a VirtualBox image that I can then
> use inside virtual box. I don't want to risk using the partitions directly
> at this point in case something goes wrong!
>
> I can use VBoxManage converfromraw to convert a "dd" image into a virtual
> box image to use, however the problem is my partition size is 110gigs,
> with only 13 gigs in use and of course dd would just create me a 110gig
> image.
>
> I thought about creating a new partition on the disk and copying the data
> across, but that seems very inefficient way of doing it, and I don't have
> any free space which means scary partition resizing on my live system! I
> cannot afford to have any downtime at the moment or my project manager
> will shoot me! tbh he'd probably shoot me if he knew I was even looking at
> this, but it gives me something to do while I'm waiting for compiles ;)
>
> Any suggestions of tools on Linux I can use to create a minimal image of
> this data on my windows parition?
