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vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:58:33 GMT

Greetings Not sure were to post this so if not correct please boot it to the correct help group.

I am attempting to make a vm from a old Windows installation installed on D drive. This hard drive was in an old computer to which I installed in my new computer. The new pc sees only the drive and is not configured in the boot menu Of course, I have my main Windows on C drive.

The program completes, but when trying to create and start the vm , it errors saying can't find boot files. I have selected the entirety of D drive and also tried just the partition with Windows.

All I need is to be able to run the old version of Windows in a VM, There is nothing else of value on the drive other than the normal restore partitions etc. any help or suggestion greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

plamen_d — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:18:22 GMT

Hello

This is a bit strange case. You may try conversion of your machine (e.g. install Converter in it and convert 'this local machine') but then select only drive and deselect reconfiguration. After the cloning completes, run c 'Configure machine' on the cloned VM. And cross fingers

HTH,

Plamen

Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:47:39 GMT

Thanks for the response. To clarify, do you mean select the entire d drive or just the Windows partition? I have not used Configure machine by itself, is there anything I need to do there? In fact this is the first time with this program, so any suggestions are appreciated.

I have made vm's from a DVD before with other programs, but never a working drive.

Thanks

Rick

Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:50:55 GMT

Oh and one other thing I forgot to mention, I cant boot to the D drive on my new machine so I am working off of Windows 11 . The d drive did work ok in the old machine

Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

plamen_d — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:43:41 GMT

I am not sure this will work, but it is worth trying.
Clone the whole disk. If you have some other program to make an image of the whole disk and then a VM from it, even better. If not - try with Converter - all volumes in and deselect reconfiguration.
Configure machine is nothing special from a user's point of view; just select the VM you have created.