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Using Virtualbox to read / boot old hard disks directly

Assuming you fit your old HD into an USB reader, e.g. it's on /dev/hdd now:

Create a virtualbox computer without a virtual disk attached, for example, named "adoscomputer".

After that:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /root/discodos.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdd
VBoxManage storageattach adoscomputer --storagectl "IDE" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium ./discodos.vmdk

Start your virtualbox and it MUST boot from that hard disk.

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https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk