Converting a Windows 8.1 E01 to a VMDK

[jblacksten]

I have a E01 image of a windows 8.1 VM with about 7 partitions. I am trying to convert the E01 into a working VM. Yet every time I do when it boots up it tells me it is missing the OS. I have used this conversion method with 4 Windows 7 machines and they work just fine but this one is the one giving me issues. I think it may have to do with the partitions and VM workstation choosing the wrong partition to boot first. If I am right I have no idea how to change the partition boot sequence for this E01.

[continuum]

E01 images are used a lot by folks from the forensics scene.
I assume that you should have a tool that can strip the special headers of the format you use so that the result is a straight full disk-image like you would get it with a dd-command.
Is this possible ? - if not please explain how you proceed now.