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<blockquote data-quote="Antig" data-source="post: 969493" data-attributes="member: 91131">Just to let you know I&nbsp; completely succeeded installing my old Windows7 in a VBox inside a Windows10 laptop,right input from you.First of all by means of Disk2vhd, a program they say works only with 10 but it worked fine with 7 as well, I created a .vhdx image (in an ext.disk) which was about 40GB big,&nbsp; then used the very costly,but luckily, triable for some time, BlockChain program, which quickly and efficiently changed the .vhdx file into a VBox usable .vdi.After that it was very simple to configure the&nbsp; updated VBox and point to &#039;existing file&#039; instead of &#039;creating&#039; one and the virtual windows7 happily booted in spite of having a lot of contrasting programs with the Windows10 host,like f.i. AMD instead of Intel, Radeon instead of Nvidia etc.&nbsp; No request for a different activation showed up either, up to now,perhaps due to non existence of previous install.So, this way the only time needed is getting rid of all useless or non working programs ,for me much quicker.Running Windows7 pro in a VBox ensures I dont have to put my beloved completely in a coffin,but can still use it sometime,in spite of having to privilege the new systems for daily use.So thanks shmu26,I wanted you to know how it went,antig<h4></h4></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Antig, post: 969493, member: 91131"] Just to let you know I completely succeeded installing my old Windows7 in a VBox inside a Windows10 laptop,right input from you. First of all by means of [U]Disk2vhd[/U], a program they say works only with 10 but it worked fine with 7 as well, I created a .vhdx image (in an ext.disk) which was about 40GB big, then used the very costly,but luckily, triable for some time, [U]BlockChain[/U] program, which quickly and efficiently changed the .vhdx file into a VBox usable .vdi. After that it was very simple to configure the updated VBox and point to 'existing file' instead of 'creating' one and the virtual windows7 happily booted in spite of having a lot of contrasting programs with the Windows10 host,like f.i. AMD instead of Intel, Radeon instead of Nvidia etc. No request for a different activation showed up either, up to now,perhaps due to non existence of previous install. So, this way the only time needed is getting rid of all useless or non working programs ,for me much quicker. Running Windows7 pro in a VBox ensures I dont have to put my beloved completely in a coffin,but can still use it sometime,in spite of having to privilege the new systems for daily use. So thanks shmu26,I wanted you to know how it went, antig [HEADING=3][/HEADING] [/QUOTE]

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