Help create the VM hard drive external

Hello

I am trying to create a virtual machine from a hard drive that was in my laptop.  It is a 80G drive and XP Media Edition installed with a recovery partition separate.  (Gateway)  I searched a few threads and continuum has a very useful post:

Hello
by far the simplest to do that involves a few steps

support:
do it on a computer that has the installed desktop - allows you to call this machine adminhost
the portable hard drive is used inside a USB connected to this computer box

Carefully follow them

1. open the adminhost diskmanagement

  • find the usb drive and note that numero_disque uses it - say for example it uses disk3
  • Right-click on each partition and remove the driveletters are subsequently assigned

2. open VMware Workstation as an administrator!

  • create a new virtual machine using option "I will install later.
  • Select Windows 7 guestOS
  • assign the same amount of RAM as the old laptop used to have
  • store the virtual machine in a path with enough free disk space - Let's E:\vms\laptop-import
  • When the virtual machine is created will NOT start
  • Remove the hard drive that has been created with the wizard
  • Add a new hard drive - select disk physical option and select the numero_disque looked you up in step 1
  • Select use "full disk" and save the vmdk as E:\vms\laptop-import\rawdisk.vmdk
  • do not start the virtual machine and close the station work

3. open a cmd as administrator

  • CD in the WS install directory such as C:\programfiles\vmware\vmware-workstation
  • Enter vmware - vdiskmanager.exe - a help screen should be displayed
  • now type vmware - vdiskmanager.exe - r E:\vms\laptop-import\rawdisk.vmdk t 0 E:\vms\laptop-import\new.vmdk
  • a process of conversion should start now - let the finsih - this may take some time

4. open my computer again

  • Open the virtual machine and modify virtual hardware
  • Delete rawdisk.vmdk and add new.vmdk instead
  • Start the virtual machine now

5. look what he does at first start

  • disc read error, cursor blinking at the top left of the screen... This means that your case is trickiert what you said to us ;-)
  • BlueScreen 7B - good - all right - to setp 6.
  • the virtual machine starts completely - congratulations - you are a lucky guy and your laptop used an Intelchipset


6 patch the drivers

  • start the converter 5 betaor a recent version of different
  • 'Configure the machine' Wizard and select the new virtual machine

  • When the wizard has completed successfully, you are finished
  • 7. If the converter does not... no problem - download or create a Windows 7 recovery CD and attach the vmx file to your next post

    However, in step 3 during the conversion process it stops at 27% and gives an error.  I've attached a screenshot of it.

    Thanks for any help!

    Wow - this XP is not really to be converted.
    It has set up a strong resistance ;-)

    Converter is a not - we tried to any version.
    Finally, I had to use a LiveCD MOA and install the vmscsi driver manually.

    So at the end of the day, the virtual machine starts and we are facing by WoodyZ

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