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Restore to VM - VM Failing To Start

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I am trying to restore a clean backup of a Windows 7 Pro machine (Dell Inspiron 9020) to a VM (Virtual PC) and having difficulties getting a working VM.

The backup takes an image of the FAT16 partition (Dell Utility), the NTFS recovery partition and the NTFS data/OS partition. I've tried restoring all three and just the data/OS. I've also restored using the existing MBR and asking Acronis to create a new one. Using any of the above items in any combination, while the VM is created fine, it will not start. It errors with "New Virtual Machine encountered an error when trying to use one of its virtual hard disks."

Any advice?

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Hi Kurt,

Please refer to the following topic.

Thank you!