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pstoric
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Conversion fails at 98%

I attempted to convert a Win 7 Pro x86 machine to my WD Passport last night but it failed twice at 98%. I pretty much used the default settings so not sure what would cause the failure. I've gone ahead and attached the logs. How can I proceed?

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admin
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Hi, what version of converter are you using?

Had you tried the converter standalone?

you can try to do reconfigure with the converted VM

are you hot converting or cold converting?

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pstoric
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I did a hot clone using VMware Converter Standalone version 6.2.

As for reconfiguring, how can I reconfigure if the localMachine did not fully convert?

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admin
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The 98% normally is error in reconfig, so you can try just to reconfig destination VM because all data is already copied.

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pstoric
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Ah ok, so what do I need to adjust?

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admin
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before going to reconfigure the Vm .

Can you try to power on Vm machine . if you are getting any error message please share the screen shot .

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POCEH
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The reconfig error is:

2018-01-23T20:36:05.959-05:00 warning vmware-converter-worker[07132] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] ERROR 1016 (loading hive) loading temporary hive \\.\vstor2-mntapi20-shared-367DD91700009031000000000F000000\Windows\system32\config\SOFTWARE under key name mntApi301327134430643379.

which means that software registry hive is broken.

However there is good chance for VM to run - just try it. Otherwise you'll need to do full "chkdsk /b" on boot time.

HTH

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pstoric
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This is the first time I've been back here since and I've powered up the VM but it Blue screens with 0x0000007B and keeps looping. How can I fix that?

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POCEH
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Did you run chkdsk /b on source machine?

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pstoric
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Looks like I've asked this questions before. Not exactly the same scenario as I am running VMware Converter to use it the VM within Workstation instead of ESXI but running the reconfigure task on the VMX and only leaving the last box checked did the trick. Boot sup fine now

Newly converted Windows 7 VM boots to BSOD

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