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running backed-up Windows 7 computer as a virtual machine

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Is it possible to run a Windows 7 computer as a VirtualBox virtual machine?  Is there a step-by-step guide to doing this for Acronis True Image backups?  I'm talking about being able to run applications that were installed on the backed-up machine, not just being able to access data files from its hard drive.

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I've succeeded in doing this by booting the VM with the recovery media and then doing a restore to the virtual drive. After that the VM booted up and ran just fine, although you may ultimately run into some Windows license nagging if you plan to use it for an extended period. 

Edit: I did this in VirtualBox using the BIOS mode instead of UEFI mode. 

 

You should be able to create a TI 2018 Win 7 OS full disk backup image file then, convert that image file to VHD using TI 2018 which will convert the backup image to a Virtual Disk (VHD).  You can then run this Virtual Disk in a VM like VirtualBox.

" You should be able to create a TI 2018 Win 7 OS full disk backup image file then, convert that image file to VHD" -- is there any advantage to doing that, rather than just using Windows Backup built into Windows 7 to create the VHD?

The advantage, if you can call it that, is that you verify that a backup image converted to a VHD can boot in a virtual machine then restoring that same backup image to another disk would also boot.  Therefore a full fledged recovery to disk is not necessary to know for certain that a backup image will be able to boot when restored to a disk.