Windows 10: Windows 10 64 Bit Professional UEFI GPT Laptop Lenovo - Virtualise??

Windows 10 64 Bit Professional UEFI GPT Laptop Lenovo - Virtualise??

I have gone through so many You tubes and forums and tutorials but unable to do successfully. All i want is to virtualise my existing lenovo laptop which is UEFI GPT and Windows 10 Pro. Tried Disk2VHD etc.
Everywhere it covers MBR conversion but nowhere it seems i am able to find successful conversion or virtualization from Physical to virtual on Windows 10 64 Bit Professional UEFI GPT Laptop Lenovo ?

Any one who has done it successfully and detaild steps available?

Why I dont want to create a empty VM and install OS because so many softwares are installed on my c and therefore I need VM environment for testing with current settings?

Pls help

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are you trying to install WIndows 7 32 bit? only Windows 7 64 bit is supported to be installed on GPT disk. if so try a 64 bit Windows 7 ISO.

boot into BIOS to see if there is a Legacy and UEFI mode. most of the UEFI computers have this boot mode. I also found this article www.disk-partition.com/articles/selected-disk-is-gpt-partition-style.html

 

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This Ten Forums tutorial covers virtualizing both MBR and GPT physical machines: Hyper-V - Create and Use VHD of Windows 10 with Disk2VHD Windows 10 Virtualization Tutorials

 

One thing to bear in mind, the maximum size of the vhd you create has to be smaller than the free space on the drive containing the VHD even if the actual VHD size is currently smaller than the current free space.

 

Thank you somehow i missed Apologies...I followed all steps but i am getting below error after adding dVD drive and windows iso





Hyper-V~_____________________________________
Uirtual Machine Boot Summary
1. SCSI DUD (0.0) No x64-based UEFI boot loader was found.
2. Network Adapter (00155D4B370B) The network media is disconnected.
3. SCSI Disk (0,0) No UEFI-compatible file system was found.
No operating system was loaded. Press a key to retry the boot sequence...
Note: Configuration changes may require the uirtual machine to be reset.

Tried multiple times recreated VDHX but stuck at above error...even google searches did not help much..

Kindly guide...

 

yes ensured that especially after you pointed out..thx

 

Are you sure you read the whole tutorial? You can see this in Part Three, step 3.1:





... and then starting from step 3.2 the instructions about how to make it bootable.

 

One way to create vm is to make an image backup of current pc using Macrium Reflect Free. Then create a vhd (smaller) and attach to host pc. Restore image backup to vhd (C drive will be shrunk to fit).

Then detach vhd, create vm (generation 2) type, and select the vhd as the drive.

 

With due respect this error was different. I followed the steps.

This is not - No UEFI-compatible file system was found. rather it is No x64-based UEFI boot loader was found

Thank you for your kind guidance.

 

Thank you. is there a more detailed step by step instructions as I am not technical savvy but end user picking things up after having realized recently power of VM?

 

@Kari has written a great tutorial on how to use Macrium - just look in tutorial section.

Creating a vhd is obvious from disk management - select create vhd option.

Creating a new hyper-v vm using an existing hard drive is pretty obvious. @ Kari has written another great tutorial how to create hyper-v vms. Only difference instead of selecting a new vhd, you choose an existing one.

It would take me longer to show you rather than you reading @Kari's great tutorials here - nothing better on web anywhere.

 

Thank you for guiding as being a newbie i might have missed these things though may be pretty obvios. thanks from my heart sir

 

As guided I went through all relevant tutorials by Kari and first I must bow for his effort put for creating such detailed documentation.

So I tried using ViBoot to create VM from Macrium image. However I have one clarification to seek and request help.

Background:
I have two hard disks in my laptop. The second hard disk is replcament of CD/dvd bay.

Disk 1 is on UEFI having default created partitions and three data partitions. Disk two has just two data partitions.

The disk management layout is shown as per attachment.




When I created macrium image i only selected system partitions as sugggested by macrium which excluded data partitions.

However when I used viboot to create vm; while the vm gets created but before that i get follwing messages.

Why do i get such messages when i never imaged them.


















Although I can bypass this but why it pops up.

Moreover I believe this is creating issue when i try to install some sofwtare on VM and then apply changes. The process takes huge time as it tries to apply changes to these data partitions as well.

Kindly clarify and how to avoid.

 

You are overcomplicating things really using viboot.

If you just create a blank virtual hard drive from disk management and initialise as GPT driv, then you can simply restore macrium backup image to that drive.

Once restored, detach vhd.


Then simply create new vm in hyper-v and connect to that drive.