cloned windows 7 dell optiplex 7010 on External SSD. Wanting it to open on my Dell inspirion 3020s

256gb

trumpy81 said:

Kewl, did you convert the drive back to MBR and is the drive now more or less, as it was when you first cloned the drive?

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yes

That may be the size you set, I need to know the actual size of the file.

A virtual disk file can expand up to the maximum size you set, but fingers crossed the actual file size will be much smaller than that.

Kewl!

sorry 274,878,956

i could do it again because the box for allocate any size was checked before I got your instruction

Im kind of slow at first but I see the logic because I only have a 500 gb ssd on the computer and the virtual machine might be too big to fit

Go back and follow my instructions re: disk allocation, that way you are not going to eat up precious disk space.

should i designate a size

I don't know the size of the Win7 installation, so it is hard to advise you on that.

Leave it set to 256GB but do NOT allocate the disk space. That way, hopefully it will only grow to the necessary size.

Once the disk file has been created, let me know it's actual size, then open VirtualBox.



1. Click on the hamburger icon beside Tools and select Extensions.
2. Click on Install and navigate to the location of the Extensions pack you downloaded, select it and then click on Install. Accept the agreement.
3. Click on the hamburger icon beside Tools and select Welcome.
4. Let me know when you get there and we will proceed.

im having an issue when it creates the disc it only is 1mb. I have to leave now so I will try to get it to work in a couple of hours. Thank you for all your help

No problem. Let me know when you are ready to proceed.

Did you make sure you selected the Win7 SSD (the whole drive), right before you created the disk file?

Im back. Im wondering since I don't have a the iso of windows 7 will I still be able to make virtual machine from my ssd

im downloading a windows 7 professional 64bit from archive.org

You should not need the Windows 7 ISO.

Did you manage to create the .vdi virtual hard drive file, if so, how big is the file?

Is Windows 7 on the cloned drive/file, 32bit or 64bit?

it's a 64 bit system but when I create the virtual box disc it still shows it at only 1mb. I click on the whole drive. I have tried several times. I should have just left the first one as is. I will try again.

What size is the SSD you used to clone the Win7 drive?

1 gb

1GB is nowhere near big enough to clone Windows 7?

Are you sure you actually cloned the drive?

1 tb sorry im stuck in the past