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Convert Physical VHD to Physical Disk

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Given that Microsoft Windows 8.1 upgrade will not work on a system which is based on a vhd, I am looking for a way to move my system back to a native physical disk.

I have read a number of posts that this is possible but have not been able to get it to work.

I have a 240GB SSD which has nothing but a .vhd file. When I boot, the boot loader locates the VHD and runs the system form it. I have tried numerous times (over the past 3 years!) to backup the Microsoft virtual C drive which is created when you boot form a physical VHD but, TrueImage still locks up with no other choice but to hit reset.

Can you clarify the steps needed to convert a VHD to a bootable physical disk...

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You will probably need the Universal Restore feature of ATI to do that.
You would gather the drivers for your physical computer on the manufacturer website (chipset and disk controllers in their INF and OEM version).
Then:
- copy the VHD file to a USB disk
- boot the computer on the Acronis recovery CD
- restore the image using Universal Restore

I have backed up the the disk containing the VHD and then booted off of Acronis but, it just looks to restore the VHD and not the image it represents. Does the Acronis boot recovery understand VHD files?

I just booted from Acroni Restore and when I select the VHD file, it returns back an error stating it is not the last file of a Windows backup set..

There's got to be a way to do this. Not sure why ATI locks up when trying to backup the C: partition when ity is backed bu a VHD....

Can you convert the VHD to a TIB file using Acronis in Windows? There is a risk it will give you the same error message, but who knows...