Hi all, I have read SIMILAR questions before but am stuck along the way I pulled an old 2.5" SATA drive from my old laptop and hooked it up with a USB converter cable with zero issues. My curren...
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Hi all, I have read SIMILAR questions before but am stuck along the way I pulled an old 2.5" SATA drive from my old laptop and hooked it up with a USB converter cable with zero issues. My current Win10 machine opens the drive folders and everything is accessible - but I want to actually BOOT into the old OS, inside a VM. Which I gather is highly possible. I do not want to make an image if I don't have to. I created a Windows 7 x64 VM, and assigned the physical drive as SCSI with no problems. Hit Play to start the VM and it shows the Windows logo animating but then shortly after goes to a blue screen which flashes too quickly, but based on old posts, I'm assuming is the STOP error. When the VM reboots, it instead offers me a menu with Finish Rebooting again (fails again of course at the Windows animation) or to go into Recovery mode. When you choose recovery mode, it offers to restore an old backup which I decline, I don't want to modify the contents of the drive. 20 minutes or so goes by though, then it informs me it was unable to automatically fix it using the recovery tool. So what EXACTLY are my next steps here? It's gotta be close from what I gather, but I can't get past the blue screen. Thank you very kindly in advance for any assistance, I will subscribe to this thread so I get instant replies
