ImgTo VHD offers both a GUI and a command line interface. Take the 'Other Tasks' > ' Convert Image to VHD' menu option. Note: ImgTo VHD is already included with all editions of Macrium Reflect v5.0. Invoke the downloaded msi as per any other installer. if you are running v4.x of Macrium Reflect. This is an alternative to the ImgTo Vhd method. Virtual machine as indicated at bottom of tutorial. If you have the Professional or Server editions of Macrium Reflect you can try the restore of an Image to a Note: The ImgTo Vhd tutorial was written before ReDeploy was developed. Please take care to ensure that you are not breaking the terms on any licences by running a virtual machine from a backup image.

Comments are currently enabled for this post - constructive comments will be helpful to both us and the other users of this tool. Use is not recommended in a production environment.įeedback is welcomed as this will help us improve the quality and utility of this tool and this blog post.

No guarantees are made for its quality or fitness for purpose. It is being released to the public for evaluation purposes only. Please note that this is beta quality software. A significant use of this is to quickly regain access to a machine that has suffered a fatal hardware failure. This enables a previously backed up machine to be reincarnated as a virtual machine. The VHD file(s) can then be used as the storage component of virtual machines from Microsoft (Virtual PC and HyperV), VMWare and Oracle/Sun (Virtual Box). We have created a utility, ImgTo VHD to enable the conversion of a Macrium backup image file to VHD files (one per disk). These can then be used to create a bootable virtual machine facilitating quick access to a failed machine whose repair would be time consuming or not possible.

ImgTo Vhd is a utility that creates VHD files from Macrium backup images.

How to create a vhd file