Boot a Physical Windows 10 Hard Drive using a Mac

Boot a Physical Windows 10 Hard Drive using a Mac

von kunal7090 am 12.06.2020 14:26

I've been a Windows fellow for a long while, yet a couple of years prior, I got myself a Mac Mini. With a large portion of the applications I utilize moving to online or versatile stages, the progress has been shockingly unremarkable. That being stated, very rarely, I fire up my old Windows 10 PC to utilize that one program that must be run in Windows.

 

With an end goal to decrease the measure of physical stuff I have, I had an idea: imagine a scenario in which I could simply take my Windows 10 PC, expel the hard drive, and boot it on my Mac Mini. I'm not looking at introducing Windows 10 on a Mac Using Boot Camp or introducing a new Windows 10 VM on a Mac. You can use Windows 10 auto login. What I needed to do was plug my hard crash into my Mac, fire it up, and have it resemble I'm sitting before my old PC, however you know, not need to keep my old PC around.

It was simpler than I suspected. I'll tell you the best way to do it.

(A brisk note of alert: Although the procedure is simple, there is consistently a hazard when you evacuate a hard drive and mount it somewhere else. Snap an inappropriate catch, expel it from a PC dangerously, or spill espresso on it–things can occur. Ensure you back up any basic information before continuing with this venture!)

Expel Your Laptop Hard Drive

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This will either be the simple part or the crucial step, contingent upon what sort of PC you have and your solace level with small screwdrivers. The specific advances will differ for you, yet for me, it was as straightforward as flipping it over and unscrewing one board.

expel PC hard drive

My hard drive (actually, it's a strong state drive, as should be obvious) slid directly out. I needed to expel the little edge on it. When I got that off, I connected it to my USB hard drive dock.

USB Hard Drive Dock or Hard Drive Enclosure

What's a USB hard drive dock? It's a straightforward connector that lets you interface a SATA hard drive to another PC utilizing USB. Mine is really fundamental, it is only a connector that slides into a stand and it takes 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives. You can get a docking station one like me or a USB hard drive walled in area for under $20.

Physical Laptop Drive Virtualbox

VirtualBox on macOS

When you get your hard drive genuinely associated with your Mac, go snatch yourself a duplicate of VirtualBox. It's free!

Make a Raw Disk VMDK

Presently, you need to take your physical hard drive and have VirtualBox treat it like a virtual machine circle.

Start by finding the mount purpose of your hard drive.

Open up Disk Utility. Press Command + Space and afterward type Disk Utility in case you're experiencing difficulty discovering it.

Locate your hard drive and right-click it. Pick Unmount. Ensure you don't discharge it. Just unmount it.

Next, open up Terminal. Enter the accompanying order:

diskutil list

Glance through the rundown for your hard drive. You ought to remember it by its sort, size, and any signs that it has Windows_NTFS on it. Observe the mount point. It'll be something like/dev/disk#

Type:

sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk - filename "/Users/Jack/Desktop/Win10Laptop.vmdk" - rawdisk/dev/disk3

What's more, obviously, supplant the "/dev/disk3" with whatever your hard drive is and "/Users/Jack" with whatever your username is.

You should get a message saying "Crude host circle get to VMDK document [whatever] made effectively."

Presently, before you leave Terminal, dispatch VirtualBox with administrator benefits. To do that, type:

sudo/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VirtualBox

Make a Windows 10 Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

Since you've propelled VirtualBox as an administrator, make another virtual machine. Under the hard circle choices, pick "Don't include a virtual hard plate."

Physical-Hard-Drive-Virtual-Machine

After your machine is made, open up the Settings for the VM and pick Storage. Snap the include button at the base and pick Hard Disk.

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On the following screen, include the .vmdk document you just made in Terminal.

PC hard drive virtualbox macos

After that is done, you ought to be good to go. Cross your fingers and start your virtual machine...

In the event that all works out positively, you should see your Windows 10 work area on your VM, much the same as you had booted the first machine.

Presently you can get to your old Windows 10 establishment without having a whole other PC. On the off chance that you become weary of this set up (it's a little more slow... ), you can generally pop it once more into your PC.

Investigating

As I was experiencing this procedure, I hit a couple of obstacles. Here are some conceivable mistake messages and cures:

"Access denied" or "VERR_RESOURCE_BUSY" – Make sure your circle is unmounted in Disk Utility. You may need to unmount the circle once more, regardless of whether you did it as of now.

"Authorization issue getting to the record for the medium (VERR_ACCESS DENIED) VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004)" – Make sure you dispatch VirtualBox with sudo benefits.

"Can't open the crude circle '/dev/disk3': VERR_ACCESS_DENIED" – Make sure the plate is unmounted in Disk Utility

"Mistake code VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND at/Users/vbox/tinderbox/macintosh rel/src/VBox/Storage/VMDK.cpp(3402) in work int vmdkCreateRawImage(PVMDKIMAGE, const PVDISKRAW, uint64_t)" or "Can't make the crude circle VMDK: VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND" – Make sure your goal spare way exists. Trade your client name for "Jack" in my model above.