Transfer existing XP to VM
Transfer existing XP to VM
I discovered a tutorial from Lenovo on performing sysprep for Windows XP at the provided link.
Oh wow... this has been done countless times. If you haven't already tried a successful P2V from disk to VHD, please stop wasting effort and just run Disk2VHD. Make sure the VHDx box is unchecked. Set up VirtualBox on another machine and build an XP VM inside it. Use a SATA controller in your virtual environment. The main factor is whether the original system was running in AHCI mode or not—adjust that in BIOS for your VM. Move the VHD file to the VM, connect it, and start the VM. If you changed the BIOS settings to AHCI, XP should recognize it again and detect new hardware. Skip sysprep since you're dealing with basic hardware abstraction; the same steps apply to VMware or Hyper-V too.