Upgrading or chaging your OS? Time to virtualize your physical machine !

The Windows Sysinternals group at Microsoft has released Disk2vhd that is a free physical to virtual converter. Disk2vhd allows you to create VHD (virtual hard dive) files from physical drives on your computer while your system is online.

The VHD files generated can be used in Microsoft Virtual PC or on Hyper-V server or VMWare or VirtualBox.

More info also available at: http://www.tweakwin7.com/articles/40123/convert-physical-machines-to-virtual-with-disk2vhd/