> Virtual Machine Manager Do you mean Red Hat's Virtual Machine Manager, AKA virt-manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virt-manager), or Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/?view=sc-vmm-2022), or Synology's Virtual Machine Manager (https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/virtual_machine_manager)? I'm guessing the first one? I use VirtualBox for trying... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

I've had good luck with Sysinternals Disk2VHD. I've run it from live installs of Windows, saved the resultant VHD to another drive, then spun it up in Virtualbox. Source: about 1 year ago

A really quick and easy way to back up a a drive is to use the SysInternals Disk2VHD tool: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd. Source: about 1 year ago

In addition to individually copying important files and folders, use Disk2vhd from Microsoft Sysinternals. Check "Use VHDX" and "Use Volume Shadow Copy" and check all volumes the HDD contains but not any volumes from other disks. Create separate files if backing up multiple disks. Source: about 1 year ago

Do it with https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd it has saved me many times with legacy OS. No restart needed. Source: over 1 year ago

You can create an image backup of all intact contents within all partitions of the HDD, using Sysinternals Disk2vhd. This won't include deleted files and unused space. Source: over 1 year ago