the first time you might get a boot error -use the windows recovery disc / usb to fix this.Ĩ) Windows will now boot - and usually pretty well all drivers it needs will be found easily enough automatically. copy All the partitions.ĥ) Create a bootable restore version of the Macrium Free program and boot it.Ħ) Restore the image you created in step 4 to your 'C' drive (or a bootable HDD).ħ) now boot it.

The process in general is called V2P or 'Virtual to Physical'.Ģ) Obtain a copy of free Macrium and install on your VM.ģ) UNINSTALL VM additions (if VBOX) or VMWARE TOOLS if running using VMWARE -don't re-boot the Vm after this as otherwise your video resolution will be wrong and make running the next step (step 4) more difficult - you just don't want to have VMware tools or vbox additions on the new Windows installation on the physical machine !!!Ĥ) Run the macrium program (from the VM) to create a Disk IMAGE (not a clone) of your VM. I've searched and can't seem to find an answer for this: is it possible to move a virtual machine in Oracle's VirtualBox to a physical machine?Īctually this process can be quite simple in the case of W10. Obviously, one should just try just putting Drive in new pc first (I would backup drive first in case it gets corrupted on new pc) Sysprepping with generalise will work if just putting drive in new pc fails or gives issues providing you remove the offending apps it proviso Dr for all users Kari says, which can be a bit tricky sometimes though but not that difficult to sort.

By sysprepping, I sorted issues very quickly Windows 10 is far superior, and will just work in most cases, but I had a lot of issues going from an Intel to AMD laptop.

I have had cases refuse to boot on older versions (Windows 7 was always hit or miss).

I agrew with above but just putting a Windows 10 drive on a new pc is not 100% guaranteed to work though. I would do this without Sysprep without the /generalize switch it does not remove drivers and make image hardware independent, on the other hand /generalize would most probably fail because provisioned apps.My comments below are for all readers - obviously you Kari know this of coursem

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