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Missed this thread earlier... OK... P2V... I've had some fun with that over the years. Personally, I'd just clone the laptop (clonezilla?) and then you've got a full backup... for backup's sake. Next, restore that in to a brand new VM (make the new hard-drive slightly larger than the original) If you're using VMware / Virtualbox, install their "tools", then in Device Manager, enable "show hidden devices" and sort out the driver mess. You're old image will now have a new network device, so if you had a static IP address, then search the registry for it, remove it and then you can put that address in the new NIC. If you want to get the license key(s), I use Belarc: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - that'll give you the keys for Office and anything else you've installed. It will also show you what patches you're missing :) -----Original Message----- From: list [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ben Whorwood Sent: 26 April 2016 10:25 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] VM's from disk image I tend to use ProduKey from NirSoft to recover Windows, Office, etc, license keys: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html Does anybody have any good alternatives? Any that support Windows 10? On 25/04/16 21:22, mr meowski wrote: > On 25/04/16 10:28, Joseph Bennie wrote: >> yes - grab the vmware convertor to do a p2v migration: boot once into win 7 >> install the tool and export the image it creates to an external drive. You can >> then use other tools to convert the vmware image to other formats. >> >> Or swap in clean hard drive and put the win 7 drive in a usb caddy for later and >> run it natively, if and when you need to. >> >>> On 25 Apr 2016, at 09:55, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I've just ordered a new laptop and the old one has a copy of w7 on it that came >>> installed and they refused to refund me. I don't ever use it but the other >>> thread on VM's reminded me I need to update some TomToms. I don't want to boot >>> into w7 so is it possible to make a vm from the existing disk partition? >>> Tom te tom te tom but not satnav. > Probably worth pointing out here that this will almost definitely > trigger Win7 deactivating itself as from it's point of view, > considerably more than three separate bits of hardware have changed > (the entire system is 'new', so Win7 will presume it's been reinstalled). > > Make sure you grab the full installation key beforehand - post P2V, > you will find yourself either calling Microsoft or running slui/slmgr. > > Cheers > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq