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Restore full system backup of WIN 10 into Virtualbox on Linux faces "disk not initialized"

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Hi there!

I'm full new to all this. Hence, after 5 days of research I be happy to get some hints.

My PC came along with a WIN 10 installed. The system uses UEFI Bios.

I added a Linux MINT.

Used Acronis TI to create a full system image of the WIN 10.

Want to recover this WIN 10 within a VM in Virtualbox on Linux.

During recovery process Acronis says "[target] disk not initialized"

Thus, backup cannot be recoverd (into the VM).

Can anybody help me with this?

Thanx a lot in advance

Dominique

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If you are using ATI 2021 (not sure it works with earlier versions), you can convert the backup into a virtual machine, see section 11.10 of the user guide. I have tried it and it works.

Ian

Ian, thank you so far!

Good idea. And I already tried that. ATI 2019 is capable of converting .tbi to vhd(x). Yet, as the converted image is nearly four times the size of the .tib (in my case the .tib is aroud 110 GB and the vhd about 420 GB) this does not fit into the 400 GB of SSD space I have allocated to my Linux.

May I have done something wrong in the backup-settings? My WIN partition is 600 GB large. System and programmes occupy some 70 GB. The rest is still free and available (says Win Explorer).

So my .tib is around 110 GB. This should fit into Virtualbox on my Linux partition. Shouldn't it? But, still ATI says "[target] disk not initialized".

What am I doing wrong?

Thx, Dominique

Try booting your Virtual Machine from the Acronis rescue media then open the Tools and use the 'Add new disk' option to prepare your virtual disk as MBR before attempting the Recovery again.