How to convert a .gho image (Ghost file) to a .vhd (Virtual Hard Disk), P2V for Hyper-V!
Open Disk Management, right click Open Disk Management đ choose âCreate VHDâ, specify the virtual hard disk location:
Right-click the new disk in Disk Management, and select Initialize Disk:
Yeah itâs online:
Still in Windows, start Ghost DOS version (Ghost32.exe), and do a Disk From Image restore: (Local â> Diskâ> From Image)
Select the .gho Ghost file:
Choose where to apply the image. We apply the image on the newly created Virtual Hard Disk (VHD file we just created):
You have a VHD file, converting done.
Fiz este procedimento porem nĂŁo sobe o WinXP e o Win7 fica bootando.
Podem me ajudar??
What do you mean excatly?
This procedure is not focused on a specific Windows version.
Please give some more info about your issue.
You will need Windows 7 to perform these procedures.
Brilliant! I have been trying to do this very thing for years because I had a 20-year-old DOS PC with a custom app that I have not been able to get rid of and not sure what we would do if the thing ever stopped. I had the .GHO but couldn’t use it because I had to get the specific board (ISA slots and all) and that was not happening in these times.
Brilliant, I say!
thank you so much. i was looking for so many converters and finally reached your site and got my issue solved in mins.
Great idea, it worked fine for me!
Also, I used this in reverse as a V2P solution. I had a hardware failure on a hyper-v server and had no other virtualization capable hardware spare to build a new server. I did however have a spare pc that was capable of running it as physical.
I took the disk containing the VMs out of the crashed server and placed in my workstation. I mounted the VM I wanted in Disk Manager. Then I was able to run Ghost32 and take an image of that disk. Went to the new hardware and restored the image.
That was I believe the simplest way of achieving the V2P transition.
Thanks again!
Hi,
Great !! It works for me.. Thanks for solution for V2P
Cheers đ
Thank you so mauch, It works very well !
Thank you, it works
Hi,
I’m on Windows 7, wich software can i use for lunch this virtual machine.
The software on windows doesn’t work.
Thanks for your help.
rémy
two years later your solution works like charm… just tried it now for the first time. Thank you so much God bless.
You can convert a “.GHO” file to a “.VHD” file using ghost32.exe, ghost64.exe or the Linux version of ghost.exe.
To convert the file, run ghost with the following command line:
-clone,mode=restore,src=C:\image.gho,dst=V:\image.vhd
I have Windows 10 already installed. i create new .vhd, then restored one more Win7 ghost to that new .vhd and hope to got dual boot alone side with my windows 10. But it’s not. Any idea?
Thank you! I was looking for something to create .vhd easily.