Attaching a physical hard drive to a VirtualBox VM was straight forward back in the day. First guide I found is this: https://superuser.com/questions/495025/us

Attaching a physical hard drive to a VirtualBox VM was straight forward back in the day. First guide I found is this: https://superuser.com/questions/495025/use-physical-harddisk-in-virtual-box#756731 https://superuser.com/questions/495025/use-physical-harddisk... However, making it possible to boot windows without the VM required some hacks and I neither know if they work for modern windows too nor what they were exactly.