The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals

[Skele Drew]

So what’s new there? Well, there’s a tool called Disk2vhd, which creates VHDs (virtual hard disks, Microsoft’s VM disk format) from physical drives. You can then use these within Virtual PC or the server-side Hyper-V engine. What’s important about Disk2vhd is that you can even run it on a disk that’s actually in use at the time, which is like pulling yourself up by your own boot laces.

Another useful present from Microsoft (it must be Christmas) is a tool that lets you blow ISO images onto any bootable medium such as a USB stick. This permits you to take an ISO image of, for example, Windows 7 and write it to a suitably large USB stick, which you’ll need to do if you want to install it onto a laptop or netbook that has no local CD/DVD drive.

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[CyberCat]

..which is like pulling yourself up by your own boot laces

..try that and see how fast you'll fall on your @$$.