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Converting a Windows 2000 Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine

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Mar 15, 202619998 views
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What's the best way to create a virtual machine from an old Windows 2000 machine? I found VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 4.0.1 which is the last version to support Windows 2000. Are there any recommended alternatives? Are there any pitfalls I should expect? I'd like to run the VM on a Windows …

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I've done this once, long time ago. The biggest pain was installing the correct drivers for the (virtual) hard disk. You must do it while this Windows installation still can boot on hardware. If your hardware uses AHCI, and your virtual machine uses…

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