Clone my windows 8.1 setup in Hyper-V

I have a I7 machine running Windows 81. with MediaCenter. I want to clone my OS setup in a Hyper-V window so that I can play with some configurations without damaging my actual OS. If the Hyper-v OS becomes corrupted I'll just go back to the
default original Hyper-V clone.
How do I clone my 81. OS as of it's current state of right now?
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If you want to do some testing with hardware you can use "Boot on VHD" which will let you boot from the VHD file you create off your physical machine, and let it boot totally separate from your primary installation. Just mount hte VHD using disk management
console and then add boot menu items for the VHD as stated in
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799299(v=ws.10).aspx
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