How to clone a physical windows system to a Virtual Machine inside the vcenter server

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Hi I m using ABR 11 and trying to make a clone machine of one of my physical server into VMware .
The steps I did were ,
Took the backup image of my physical server using ABR 11 and save inside my USB HDD.
Create a sever inside Vcenter without OS.
Managed to boot this server from ABR CD and proceed the universal restore process.
After Halfway done, the error msg popped up and asked me for driver .
Any step i missed out ? or how should i proceed ?

Thank u.

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Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:48
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You can specify drivers from "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\UniversalRestore\DriversPack" . It's a collection of drivers for P2V migration. Another way is to perform recovery from the product installed on Windows, specifying 'new virtual machine' of type 'vmware workstation' as a destination.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 12:52
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Thank u ,

Yes I found that folder inside my C: but don't know how to proceed when the alert in above attached file came out during my restoration in VM. Can I take out the acronis DVD form the Vcenter DVD ROM and pointed this folder ? I m abit confused here.
I cannot find the other option you gave ( 'new virtual machine' of type 'vmware workstation' as a destination")Where should I find ?on the physical server which i would like to clone or will it need to be performed in VM during restoration ?

Thu, 09/13/2012 - 06:52
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It should be run on a server where you have your Acronis installed. Did you backup your server from bootable CD or did you install Acronis onto your server to be cloned (since you have C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\ I guess it's the second option)? Regarding driver selection, you may find this link useful: http://kb.acronis.com/content/23335

Thu, 09/13/2012 - 19:20