DesolataX Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I am new to VMware, i have always been using Virtual PC, and i wanted to know if i could transfer the data from the VMware HDD image to my spare 80gb HD. Any way how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesown Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Yes indeed you can. In order to transfer data from a virtual drive in vmware to a physical one, first select the physical drive in the vmware option as well as your image file. That way darwin can access both. Next run this command: dd if=(source image, usually something like /dev/disk0) of=(destination hard drive, again usually something along the lines of /dev/disk0 Wait a few hours after running that and you should be good to go. Note that the partition will only be as big as the image, so you might want to use a program like partition magic to expand it to the full drive size! Hope that helps, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesolataX Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 Ok, Thank you, i think i understand what you are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesolataX Posted August 18, 2005 Author Share Posted August 18, 2005 How do i get into Darwin to do that command? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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