Macrium Reflect: www.macrium.co... A video showing you how to clone a virtual machine running on a VMWare player to an actual physical computer. This also works with Windows 8, 8.1 and 10.
wow, just wow. been looking for a video and there is none...totally absolutely none video about virtual to physical. thanks dude. heading to do above, hopefully no errors will be encounted
I had some old industrial software on a virtual machine because it only works will with windows XP.. Was looking for a way to do exactly what you described here. Thanks a million!
Is it required to put the old system on virtual machine first and create a backup from that virtual machine? then restore to physical machine? I have the old system, but I want to see if I can back it up directly from old system and restore directly to another new modern day system.
This helps a LOT!! I HATE having to install windows AND programs 1 by 1 PER PC!! With this method yes, I will still have to go to each PC 1 at a time but I don't need to stay at the computer installing programs! And also if sombody BREAKS the computer I can re image it with the VM I made long ago
What's an amazing software This is my scenario 1. I took old ghost image from Dell T3500 from 2016 2. Convert this image to VMDK for use then i thought how can i convert back to physical machine (at this point i don't have any clue on Macrium) 3. Follow your instruction and convert back VM (took from Dell T3500) to Laptop Dell Latitude. All work perfectly
This is a great video, but I need to do this process with a virtual windows server to physical Macrium doesn't run on windows server! what else can I use ??
Thanks.. I would like to do this process for my ubuntu virtual machine running in vmware and run it in a raspberry pi or another physical machine. Would you be able to help here?
i may be incorrect, considering u have to manually select driver for each device in device manager for installation, would it better if u install all those drivers in the VHD beforehand, then turn into a image ?
I followed your steps and everything worked well, but I got the 7B BLUE SCREEN upon startup. Changing the IDE/ATAPI modes did not work for me. This advice that I found on the web from Jonie Evangelista did work - "I know this is an old Q, but no one can deny that there are still a lot of WinXP users out there. it just happens that I was able to fix a Chinese version of this :) use Hiren's Boot CD, boot with Windows Emulator, 1st on the list once you're in, Start > Registry Tools > fix hard disk controller it is safe to play with the 3 choices, just map the target anyway - c:\Windows restart...you should get your WinXp running again. "
How do I know which drivers I need? For example, I'm trying to install Windows Vista on a Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC, but the website lists 72 drivers. A lot of them are different versions of the BIOS.
Great tutorial, I do have an issue when I fix the windows boot, I get all green ticks apart from updating partition boot sector which has a red cross and the system wont boot. Any ideas?
Thank you so much for the amazing video. I’ve a linux OS image cloned as *.vdi file on my PC, and I want to install it on another PC that doesn’t have any OS. Does your approach in the video can also works smoothly ! Please reply me as soon as possible. Yours.
Is there any way to make a VM from old computer hard drives. Over years as I upgraded computers, I have saved the Hard drives before throwing out the Computer. I have discs with Windows 95, XP etc with files old arcade games etc. Is there any way to turn those into Virtual Machines?
One doubt bro. Will this method work on a machine having a OS and trying to do dual booting system. For instance, I am planning to get a Windows 7 on a second drive partition of system that has windows 10 running
Hello I have a windows server vps on external hosting company. My need for this server will stop soon. Is there any way to clone this server to VM virtualbox, and use it on my local PC? Thank you
THANKS MR CHARLIE, My VM installed with 4 GB RAM. But physical machine carries 8GB RAM. After doing V2P, Does it show 4GB RAM or 8GB RAM ? Do we need to do anything on physical machine to utilise the 8GB RAM installed. Would you share your feedback.
I see you are good on this, Kindly make me understand, are you saying I can clone and everything on my VM unto a physical computer. what about from a physical computer to another computer?
If you want to do it from one computer to another computer, its the same thing. Just treat the first computer as he treats the VM. Create an image of the first computer, put it onto an external hard driver or flash drive, make a flash drive for Macrium Reflect recovery media, put both of them in the second computer, boot into Macrium Reflect, and use the image you made on the first computer. It's all of the exact same steps, just creating an image of the real computer instead of a VM.
Didn't work for me on windows xp. I believe this would only work with newer operating systems such as Windows 10 which fixes all the boot up issues. I myself were trying to do this with an old windows xp system with IDE drive (yes I know damn old!) to move to a new modern day system, but it failed (stuck on that "go to last known configuration" screen (if anyone knows a repair script or whatever to change the bootup "priority" please let me know). I'm going to try with macrium reflect redeploy (full version) which supposedly is supposed to work with restoring to dissimilar hardware. Do you think restoring an old backup via virtual machine first would fix this issue by backing that up and restoring it? Thanks again.
What if ther is a deffirenc between both hardwares . If wanna ask about to migrate a virtual machine having very complicated softwares from my Siemens pg a programming laptop to a HMI? I tried to take image of running Windows with acronis true image but window didnot booted. Please help.
Do both of your computers support boot from USB? Are they machines from 1999-2004? If so, follow these steps: 1. Install Macrium Reflect on a computer with at least Windows XP or Vista. 2. Click on Other Tasks > "Create Rescue Media" 3. Click Advanced. 4. Click on "Options" *You must select x86, otherwise it will NOT boot* 5. Click on "Choose Base WIM" *You must select Windows PE 3.1, as 4.0 and up likely* *won't work on your 98 machines, because they are based on Windows 8.0+, and 8.0+* *requires PAE and SSX2 support, which your 98 PC likely doesn't have* *Your computers must support Windows 7, or this will not work* 6. Click "OK" > "Build". If you can't create a USB, make an ISO and burn it in Rufus with UEFI-CSM. 7. Boot from the USB on your 98 machine. Connect an external hard drive and follow these steps from 4:16. 8. Now go to your other machine and boot the USB. Connect the same external hard drive to the computer you wish to clone the hard disk on your 98 machine to and follow these steps from 6:40. Now reboot and Windows should boot.
how do i do the opiset thing of what ever ytou dide... i want to clone a HDD to a VM to run on another PC! its been about 24 hours i have been trying to figure this out.... BLUE SCREEN ERRORS AHHH!!!
One thing to copy windows to another different machine but what about that windows linense it will trip up activation required if it see different hardware ids?
Thank you , Could you please tell me when the physical server's harddisk is cloned from the image ,does it deletes / clear all the data if the hard disk contains . Also how about product key / activation part , which you did not cover in this .Please reply to my query.
Yes it is. Make a Windows VM and install Macrium. If you have UEFI, install Windows 8 or 10. If you have Legacy/CSM, install Windows 7, 8, or 10. Now connect your USB to your VM. Create Rescue Media in the VM. Boot the USB on your Linux machine. You will boot into Windows. Click the backup tab, connect your hard drive, and do everything shown on here (4:16). Now go to your other computer, and do everything shown here (6:40). Now, if you are trying to clone a Linux VM onto physical hardware, set up a Windows 7/8/10 and Linux dualboot. Install Macrium on Windows, and do everything shown on here (4:16) but don't backup your Windows drive. Now go to your other computer, and do everything shown here (6:40).
Nice but can you do virtual to physical or physical to physical of Linux system over a network or without using third party program will be appreciated and I can learn from that too Thank you
If you use the same hardware then you don't need drivers...but with different hardware you need and also you'll face is activation problems for Windows
how to clone centOs virtual machne to physical/real computer? does macrium reflect can be instal inside the unix machine or do we have any alternative.
its depend on data , If its just data files you can copy to external drive and past it no need to clone but if you have data link to 1st partition then you have to clone both..
Do what he does but reverse it. Install Macrium on your host. Backup your hard drive and store the backup on an external hard drive. Make an ISO Rescue Media and boot it on the VM. Then, connect your external hard drive and restore your host on your VM with Macrium. Then reboot.
The same way?? Use a bootable acronis boot disk.. or better yet, hook up the portable HDD and boot off using CloneZilla, that works best when imagine linux builds, for me at any rate. I've managed to migrate from USB to SDD and SDD to USB
What the point here folks - If the OS in the VM can't connect to internet - then you're dead in the water. You probably don't have this OS, that's why you went the VM route to start with. Case in point, Win98SE won't work in VM on 64 bit machine - so what makes you think it's going to work on same same machine already running Windows 7 Professional (lets say).?. There may be an exception where we have an inverse transformation in the PC manifold but that's more of an anomaly. JMHO.
I have Mac OS Catalina On my Virtual machine ON VIrtualBox with windows 10! Fully Codded and working great!!. I want to image that, is their a way to do this? So I can install it On My Windows PC? Legacy as the main OS? I just need away to image it so i can install the image into the PC possibly using CLONEZILLA. Any help is Greatly appreciated, If any one else wants to learn what im doing and join me, please pm me, or comment below :)
bro..!! The software which you mentioned in this video is not free to use in Windows server. Please help if there is any procedure to clone WinServer VM to a physical machine. (for a home testing lab)
Try setting up a Windows 7/8/10 and Linux dualboot (or install 8 or 10 on a VM). Install Macrium on Windows, and do everything shown on here (4:16) but don't backup your Windows drive. Now go to your other computer, and do everything shown here (6:40).
