Win 7 to vm Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible at 98%

[Joschide]

Trying to convert a Windows 7 box to vm.  Getting "Unable to find the system volume, reconfiguration is not possible." error at 98%.  I've tried booting to Windows recovery (windows 10.  Does that matter?) startup repair + bootrec etc to no avail.  Always ends with BSOD after windows splash screen.  I believe its an issue with the small boot volume.

Can someone have a look at the log and point me in the right direction?

Thank you in advance.

[DCChrisMc · Accepted solution]

From your log

2019-01-15T13:16:16.762-05:00 warning vmware-converter-worker[06688] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ERROR 13 getting default from Vista BCD file

2019-01-15T13:16:16.762-05:00 warning vmware-converter-worker[06688] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ERROR opening boot.ini file boot.ini for reading

AFAIK Windows 7 doesn't have a boot.ini file. (nor Vista for that matter)

Try the steps in

VMware Knowledge Base

"This issue occurs when converting a physical machine that uses Boot Configuration Data or BCD (Windows Vista, 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2). In this case, the physical machine may have some type of system, hidden, or recovery partition that results in inaccurate BCD configuration data after the conversion and causes the virtual machine reconfiguration process to fail. BCD issues can be addressed by rebuilding automatically using the bootrec command or by editing the BCD stores using the bcdeditcommand."

[Joschide]

Thanks for your reply.  However, I get stock on both bootrec and / bcdedit (see below).

I tried the bootrec options which always failed /fixboot (access denied) and /scanos (no windows os found).  bcdedit was not a recognized command.

Start up repair initially says changes made, but still doesn't boot.  Then says unable to repair.

[DCChrisMc]

Doesn't sound good.

Did you navigate to C:\windows\system32\ before running bcdedit.exe

[Joschide]

Ah success!  Thank you.  The link was helpful.  It took a few more tries and changing to d:\windows\system32 to run bcdedit was key.  The 2nd part of the link (loading / editing the hive) was what finally got it booting again.

Thanks again!

[rickyisbusy]

Hello.

I have the same problem with the reconfiguration not possible at 98%....can you please help with this issue?

I don't know what to do to fix it.

Thanks a lot for your time

[POCEH]

You skip your active (bootable) volume during conversion and reconfiguration is not possible.

HTH