What he said +1.....imho...if you been using the pc regularly and you deleted the folder 1 week ago you have very low posibilities to recover anything....
Was able to fit a 939 cooler in a am3 socket recently....
yay for amd not making me spend twice every socket change
are older sockets compatible too? 754, 462???
You should try Portable Virtualbox, virtualbox accepts vmdk images, dont know about vpc images...
Biggest problem is going to be IO bandwidth and Media type, you know, Virtualization generates lots of I/O operations that can destroy flash drives in little time