Creating a Machine Vurtial leave a dead laptop.

My laptop is dead and is not repairable.  The hard drive is fine and can copy all my files off.  But I would like to convert it to the virtual machine at, I could find a few settings that I had not documented.  If the laptop worked, I was able to P2V Converter, but everything I have Hare by car.  Standalone converter doesn't seem to work with only one hard disk.  Is the documentation now how to create a VMDK to training and then make a boot on a virtual computer drive?

everything I have VMware Workstation 9 and Standalone converter.

Thank you

Guessed if someone else has this problem.

First put the drive in a working system.

Use Winimage (http://www.winimage.com/)

Create a physical disk virtual hard disc (disc--> disc creation form virtual disk) (can use virtual PC at this stage)

Then convert VHD to VMDK

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-convert-and-import-VHD-to-VMDK-VMware/

then create a new Virtual Machine from the vmdk

http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2010196

I had to reactivate windows but after that he found all the drivers and worked as usual.

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