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>You might experience timeouts if you attempt to run Disk2vhd from a network share, or specify a network share for the destination. To avoid timeouts, use local, portable media.
2. On the computer you wish to convert, double-click the disk2vhd utility to start the graphical user interface.
3. Select checkboxes next to the **C** and **system** volumes and specify a location to save the resulting VHD or VHDX file. If your Hyper-V host is running Windows Server 2008 R2 you must choose VHD, otherwise choose VHDX. See the following example:
3. Select the checkboxes next to the **C** and the **system reserved** (BIOS/MBR) or **recovery** (UEFI/GPT) volumes. The system volumes are not typically assigned a drive letter, but will be displayed in the Disk2VHD tool with a volume label.
4. Specify a location to save the resulting VHD or VHDX file (F:\VHD\w7.vhdx in the following example) and click **Create**. If your Hyper-V host is running Windows Server 2008 R2 you must choose VHD, otherwise choose VHDX. See the following example:
![disk2vhd](images/disk2vhd.png)
4. Click **Create** to start creating a VHDX file.
>Important: You must include the system reserved or recovery volume in order to create a bootable VHD. If this volume is not displayed in the disk2vhd tool, see [Appendix C: Disk2VHD](#appendix-c-disk2vhd).
5. Click **Create** to start creating a VHDX file.
>Disk2vhd can save VHDs to local hard drives, even if they are the same as the volumes being converted. Performance is better however when the VHD is saved on a disk different than those being converted, such as a flash drive.
5. When the Disk2vhd utility has completed converting the source computer to a VHD, copy the VHDX file (w7.vhdx) to your Hyper-V host in the C:\VHD directory. There should now be four files in this directory:
6. When the Disk2vhd utility has completed converting the source computer to a VHD, copy the VHDX file (w7.vhdx) to your Hyper-V host in the C:\VHD directory. There should now be four files in this directory:
```
C:\vhd>dir /B
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For more information about the Hyper-V Manager interface in Windows Server 2008 R2, see [Hyper-V](https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc730764.aspx) in the Windows Server TechNet Library.
## Appendix C: Disk2VHD
If the EFI System Partition is not visible in the Disk2VHD tool, use the following procedure to temporarily make it visible and include it in the conversion.
1. Open an elevated command prompt and type the following command. The command assumes that S: is an available drive letter. If it is not available, replace the letter with an available one (ex: mountvol T: /S):
```
mountvol S: /S
```
2. Close and restart the Disk2VHD application.
3. Clear the **Use Volume Shadow Copy** checkbox.
4. Select the C: and S: drives to convert, and then click **Create**.
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