Blue screen after conversion with VM converter stand alone 6.3

[EVPSupport]

Hi,

I converted a windows 10 physical PC using converter 6.3 (latest as of today). 

The conversion went successfully to 100%, w/o any problems.

Howerver, the vm does not boot. It stops quickly with Blue Screen System Thread Exception not handled.

In the repair environment, I first tried to boot into safe bode (with console only) - blue screen

However, I could select the repair console - it accepted my vm windows credentials.

Here are my findings :

(It boots from volume 0, Windows is installed on volume 1)

I was wondering why the converted volumes both had a letter assigned (c and d).

Here is the original BCD from the physical PC. It looks like this:

I tried to boot on 2 different machines with 2 different BIOS and CPUs - no change.

I then used DISKPART to remove the letter from the system volume and assigned a "c:" letter to the Windows volume.

BCD looked now excatly like the original from the physical PC.

However, after the boot crashed again, I checked with BCDedit and the C,D letters were set again as it was at the beginning.

I also tried chkdisk on c: and d: - no errors were found.

In vm settings there is only 1 CPU selected. I tried with 1,2,3,4 cores - no change.

Now I have no more ideas why this vm will not boot.

I ran out of ideas - Please help!

[Yttrium]

Hallo, 

possibly you shoul try the Neustart with 'drivers only'.

Next thing you could check the BIOS settings of the converted machine. If the start sequence is too fast, enter bios.bootdelay = "5000" in the vmx file (backup it first!) to have enough time to access.

MfG!

[EVPSupport]

Thanks for your answer. 
unfortunately, no change.

[RDPetruska]

Did you run the second step of the Converter?  The first step/stage is creating a virtual machine and imaging the existing disk into the virtual environment.  The second step is reconfiguration of the disk for the boot drivers, etc.

[EVPSupport]

Yes I did. Out of the four checkboxes the last two were selected:

Install VMware Tools on the destination virtual machine

Customize guest preferences for the virtual machine

X Remove System Restore checkpoints on destination

X Reconfigure destination virtual machine

[Yttrium]

Have you started the converted VM on the same PC?

[EVPSupport]

Yes, I tried the same PC and also another, completely different PC. No change - same blue screen error.

[Yttrium]

Some settings possibly to be checked at the setup before start conversion:

- post conversion and 

- selection of virtual disk 1

[EVPSupport]

hi,

virtual disk has converted well - no error, everything is there. A bit strange are  just the drive letters. Originally Windows is on C: and the System/Boot partition has no letter (see above). 

As mentioned  I ran the post configuration with the last 2 checkboxes set. The convert and post configuration jobs went well, no errors.

I hope that some guru from vmware can jump in and help us out here as this is very strange.

thanks!

[EVPSupport]

I ran the conversion again, tried all the options, but still the same blue screen arrow. This is really frustrating.

No one able to help?