Encrypted hard drive - P2V

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draftkingsmoney207
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 8:25 pm

Would P2V work on an encrypted HD? I'm hoping to P2V a Win11 HD to vmdk so i can run it on my Mac. I've done this in the past with Rufus/Ubuntu but wondering if StarWind would do the trick?
yaroslav (staff)
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:04 pm

V2V will not decrypt the disk. You will get the same encrypted media, but virtual.
draftkingsmoney207
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:08 pm

thanks, yea to decrypt. ok so it will clone the physical disk to virtual even though its an encrypted media?
yaroslav (staff)
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Tue Oct 29, 2024 9:39 pm

Greetings,

theoretically, it should.
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