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TheAngryHeretic
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Using Cold Clone(VMWare Converter) to convert physical to virtual

I am running into an issue with converting a physcial to a virtual, and was hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction.

I have a Windows 7 system that I am trying to convert to an ESX Virtual.  The drive in the machine is a 300GB drive, but the Windows 7, pluys a hand full of software packages is only 17GB. 

I have tried to import the physical system into ESX and it fails each time.  I looked through the logs that are generated, and the faliure seems to be when it reaches the c:\windows\winsxs directory.  I did some digging on winsxs and found that it is a location where Windows stores multiple versions of dll's for different applications.  I don't THINK that is the problem, but you never know.

I hope that someone else here has had this same problem and can point me to the right location for solving it. 

Thanks.

Mack Jenkins

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LuizOctavio
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You already using vCenter Converter????

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DSTAVERT
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Moving to the VMware Converter forum.

-- David -- VMware Communities Moderator
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