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I am planning to upgrade from a 32 bit os (Vista) to 64 bit (7). As there is no straight upgrade path, and I do not want to spend an entire weekend setting everything up with no immediate rollback (apart from an image), is there a way I can make a virtual disk with Windows 7 and then copy this to the physical hard drive and override my host OS (Vista)?

So in short I have Vista as my host OS, I setup 7 on a VHD, but in the end 7 becomes my host OS just like Vista is now.

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closed as exact duplicate by John T, Jared Harley, Chealion, Diago Nov 25 '09 at 6:01

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With regards to the similar question I posted, if you don't have a second disk you can boot from, you can use a Linux LiveCD such as DSL and use dd from there.

You can also image the virtual environment with Ghost or Clonezilla (free) and then restore that image to your host.

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Thanks for that. BTW I mean replacing the current host OS (just to be clear) :) – dotnetdev Nov 29 '09 at 19:21
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