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Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:50:55 GMT

Oh and one other thing I forgot to mention, I cant boot to the D drive on my new machine so I am working off of Windows 11 . The d drive did work ok in the old machine

Re: vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:47:39 GMT

Thanks for the response. To clarify, do you mean select the entire d drive or just the Windows partition? I have not used Configure machine by itself, is there anything I need to do there? In fact this is the first time with this program, so any suggestions are appreciated.

I have made vm's from a DVD before with other programs, but never a working drive.

Thanks

Rick

vcenter converter stand alone trying to make vm of a existing installation on D drive

Rick51 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:58:33 GMT

Greetings Not sure were to post this so if not correct please boot it to the correct help group.

I am attempting to make a vm from a old Windows installation installed on D drive. This hard drive was in an old computer to which I installed in my new computer. The new pc sees only the drive and is not configured in the boot menu Of course, I have my main Windows on C drive.

The program completes, but when trying to create and start the vm , it errors saying can't find boot files. I have selected the entirety of D drive and also tried just the partition with Windows.

All I need is to be able to run the old version of Windows in a VM, There is nothing else of value on the drive other than the normal restore partitions etc. any help or suggestion greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

player 16.2.1 wont run machines from previous version

Rick51 — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:56:03 GMT

Hi I upgraded my old player, I believe version 15.1 this new version. Now when I attempted to open previously working machines, I get this error

You have started VMware Player with an out-of-date copy of the application. VMware Player cannot power on virtual machines using this copy (version 16.2.1). To power on this virtual machine, run VMware Player from the default location.

Any suggestions appreciated as I do not want to reinstall all my machines

Thanks in advance

Rick