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Swindiff
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VM Bluescreen

Hi

I have an Windows 7 image made using Acronis that I want to recover into a VM.  The PC is becoming a bit flaky and it has some legacy software on it that I want to still be able to access when I upgrade the PC to a new Windows 10 machine.  The image is from an Asus P8Z68-V Gen 3 machine which has a UEFI boot but the Sata drive is set to IDE not AHCI.  If it is set to AHCI it bluscreens on boot which is what I am seeing in my VM's.

The method I have used is to create a new VM and then boot to the acronis disk to restore the image to the VM.  I have tried various configuration for the VM but I can not get it to boot.  If I select BIOS boot for the VM and choose either a SCSI or IDE Drive for the image it bluescreens as it does if I try to boot with the Sata drive set to AHCI on the actual PC.  If I restore the image to a VM where I have chose UEFI as the boot method it does not recognise there is anything to boot to.  I just get an error of no media when trying to boot to SCSI drive (0.0).  I don't see anywhere in the EUFI boot manager where I can change the SATA drive type.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to where I am going wrong?

Many thanks.

Craig

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Alex_Romeo
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Hi,

Did you use this method to convert Acronis image to vmdk?

https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-convert-your-acronis-file-backup-into-virtual-disk/

ARomeo

Blog: https://www.aleadmin.it/
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Swindiff
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Hi

No I used the Acronis CD to restore the tib image file inside the VM.  I have Acronis True Image (not True Image Echo Workstation) and it does not have that option.  I downloaded and tried the VMware Converter Standalone but I get the following error FAILED: An error occurred during the conversion: 'Platform-specific error 38'

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Alex_Romeo
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Hi,

Try to install vmware Workstation (free), and follow the solution proposed by David

David Williams

While VMWare vCenter Converter 6.0 Standalone supports TIBs up to ATI Home 11 or Echo 9.5, i.e. 2007 AD..., it isn't the way to go considering that the VMWare following version, 6.1, dropped the support for third-party image conversion as a whole.

In other words it is not possible to convert TIBs directly to VMDK (VMware image format) with TrueImage any longer, but you can boot a newly created VMware VM with an Acronis Live CD and restore the TIBs you have stored into the empty VM, - using either Acronis ATI 2015/2016 Rescue Media CDs and VMware Workstation 11/12....

How to convert .tib to VM? | Acronis Forum

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This video can be useful

How to convert Acronis Backup tib file to vmware vmdk file - YouTube

other info:

How to convert .tib to .vmdk | IT vlab

ARomeo

Blog: https://www.aleadmin.it/
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Swindiff
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Hi Alessandro

That is exactly the method I first tried.  As I said it restored the image to the virtual hard drive in the VM no problem.  the problem I am having is that when I restart the VM, windows will not load.  It either bluescreens if the VM has a bios boot, or it does not recognise any bootable media if the VM has UEFI boot.  The bluescreen issue happens on the actual PC the I am trying to create a VM from if the drive type is set to AHCI rather than IDE and I think this may be what is causing the problem here.  Its just that I cannot see anywhere where to set the SATA drive type for the bootable media inside the VM

Cheers

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Swindiff
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OK to keep you updated on my progress.  Whatever I tried I could not get my Windows 7 Acronis image to recover into a VM.  I therefore updated my PC to windows 10 and created an Acronis Image of that.  I then created 2 empty VM's for windows 10, one with BIOS boot an one with UEFI boot.  The UEFI still fails to boot, but happy to say that the BIOS VM boots into windows 10 inside the VM fine, so very happy that I now have a working VM of my PC, I just needed to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for some reason.

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