Copying a VHD to a physical disk

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Mar 15, 2026140648 views

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I've seen a lot of guides on how to do physical -> VHD, but is there any way to easily move a VHD image to a physical disk easily? Or should I just attach the disk and go to town with GNU DD?

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Fix for: Copying a VHD to a physical disk

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I use the Windows only freeware tool HDD Raw Copy Tool to write .vhd images to physical media. My use case is using Windows 7 to replicate FAT32 partitions onto micro SD cards but it can support a wide range of interfaces/media types. It has a porta…

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