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Re: Converting win2000 advanced server - Error: Reconfiguration Failed (at 95%)

dconvery — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:56:08 GMT

DOH!!!! You are right Ulli!! Sorry.

They are getting errors similar to this one:

Error 3 (error loading hive: The system cannot find the path specified (3))

I am assuming it is an issue finding the windows installation, registry, etc.

Dave Convery
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Re: Converting win2000 advanced server - Error: Reconfiguration Failed (at 95%)

continuum — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:33:48 GMT

Dave - partitions are counted starting from 1 - so your tip will not work

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Re: Converting win2000 advanced server - Error: Reconfiguration Failed (at 95%)

dconvery — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:49:48 GMT

If it is failing at 95%, that means the clone has finished and it is working on the conversion. At this point it inserts the VMware drivers into the file system and the registry. It uses boot.ini to "find" Windows.
If you did not delete the VM, you can use a helper VM to mount the C: drive of the candidate and edit boot.ini. Just add the hard disk to a working VM that is running Win2K or Win2k3. It will mount as the D: or E: drive.

Your boot.ini looks like this:

 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

This indicates that you have a diagnostic or utility partition on the physical server. This is not cloned as part of the conversion process and will cause this type of failure.

Change both lines to:
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(0)\WINNT

Dave Convery
VMware vExpert 2009
http://www.dailyhypervisor.com

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"

Converting win2000 advanced server - Error: Reconfiguration Failed (at 95%)

plisitza — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:19:41 GMT

diagnostic file attached. thanks.