Clone VM to new SSD
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:02 am
Hi,
I have a Hyper-V virtual machine with a Windows 7 installation (with all MS updates).
It's a one partition only setup (32 GB (32768 MB) primary partition).
I want to transfer this installation to a new notebook that has a new 250 GB SSD (no partitions on it) inside.
The source 32 GB partition should be resized to 64 GB on the destination SSD. I will add a second primary partition on that manually afterwards (for data storage).
Ofc I need to use TBOSDT from my IFL boot cd to remove all existing drivers that are installed in the VM partition.
I'll mount the folder where I put the backup of the source partition from inside the IFL cd and restore the image from there (so that I don't need to create partitions on the SSD first and copy the image onto the second partition).
Which options do I need to set for the cloning process (backup + restore) to:
- Set the target partition to 64 GB (or better 65536 MB)
- Only transfer the used space of the source partition (about 18 GB out of 32 GB)
- Align this partition correctly on the destination SSD
- Make the destination partition active and bootable
I'd like to get it right on the first try instead of missing an option and have to redo the cloning process
Tia,
Highend
I have a Hyper-V virtual machine with a Windows 7 installation (with all MS updates).
It's a one partition only setup (32 GB (32768 MB) primary partition).
I want to transfer this installation to a new notebook that has a new 250 GB SSD (no partitions on it) inside.
The source 32 GB partition should be resized to 64 GB on the destination SSD. I will add a second primary partition on that manually afterwards (for data storage).
Ofc I need to use TBOSDT from my IFL boot cd to remove all existing drivers that are installed in the VM partition.
I'll mount the folder where I put the backup of the source partition from inside the IFL cd and restore the image from there (so that I don't need to create partitions on the SSD first and copy the image onto the second partition).
Which options do I need to set for the cloning process (backup + restore) to:
- Set the target partition to 64 GB (or better 65536 MB)
- Only transfer the used space of the source partition (about 18 GB out of 32 GB)
- Align this partition correctly on the destination SSD
- Make the destination partition active and bootable
I'd like to get it right on the first try instead of missing an option and have to redo the cloning process
Tia,
Highend