How to clone & restore virtual box hard drive

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Published on 2010-05-20T06:51:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 7:02 UTC
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What I want to do is to clone my virtual box hdd with dual boot os. Xp and Vista. I'm using acronis and back it up on a flash drive. And end up with the flash drive that is partitioned. 2 partitions just like the virtual box hard disk. What do I do to restore it. I'm running acronis inside virtual box. What do I do

to make use of the backup and actually restore what I've back up.
And to be able to boot to xp and vista again inside virtual box.

Please help.

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