Blank screen on boot-up after conversion

[colintyrrell]

Hi,

I converted a 2003 server. It seemed to have been successful.

But in workstation (5.x), when I tried to add the machine, it begins starting up, but after the vmware screen it comes up with a blank screen.

Any ideas please?

[continuum]

boot that VM into a LiveCD and check if the partition has the active flag.

Also check if ntldr, boot.ini and ntdetect.com exist

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[colintyrrell]

Thanks Continuum.

What do you mean by Active Flag?

I'll boot it up with the Server 2003 CD as you suggest tomorrow; I'm just dialed in remotely now

[continuum · Accepted solution]

I would not use the server 2003 CD but a LiveCD - its much easier to do such checks with a regualr LiveCD.

For a 2k3 system I would use something like BartPE or the one I make - see my signature.

To check the active-flag open diskmanagement in the LiveCD and check if the C: drive is marked as bootable

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[colintyrrell]

Hi Continuum,

I figured out the issue. Maybe this can help others out there too.

The Physical server had a smal disk (20GB); but it was IDE.

When I did the conversion (each of the million times!