Re: [Clonezilla-live] restoring oem win2k to vmware

[Umarzuki M. <uma...@gm...>]

it seems that being a oem installation is not the issue. I simply redo
the restoration to a ide virtual drive and repair the installation
with win2k installation cd. It works, atleast the required services
are running.

On 6/16/10, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 1:10 AM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>> I used clonezilla live 20100318 karmic to create an image of a win2k sp4
>> server and restore it to a vmware player 3.0.1
>> I had seen a few threads in various forums and articles about vconverter
>> not being able to convert a oem system or installed one in a vmware
>> machine.
>>
>> Does using clonezilla also effected? I got blue screen with
>> INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE message upon booting the virtual machine.
>>
>> I already tried the vmware scsi driver but still same. The repair mode
>> does not detect the drive installed with win2k. Is this related to oem
>> and there's no way around?
>
> If you still have the source machine, I've had the best luck at
> converting machines by installing the vmware converter and running it
> locally, writing the image to a mapped drive and telling it to install
> vmware tools in the copy.  If the source has an oem recovery partition
> you can omit that in the copy.
>
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Umarzuki Mochlis
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