P2V with Hyper-V. New VM boots to black screen

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I performed a backup of the physical machine that's running Server 2003. The previous IT company built the machine a bit... oddly.
attached is a print screen of their disk layout.

When I perform a restore of the server to its VirtualMachine, I'm given the disks listed in the P2VRestoreWindow file. The top portion is "basic disk". The bottom are the dynamic disks. I get a 170(0xAA) error if I try to include any of the "None" partitions in the restore. I point the MBRs listed for DIsk1-5 to the disks 1-5 during the restore.

I have Disk1 and Disk2 in Acronis set to restore to an "IDE" disk in HyperV.

The restore completes successfully. But when I go to power on the virtual machine, I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. This is driving me nuts. I'm just trying to get the process down so I can finally enable the network controller on the VM and perform one final backup/restore to finally be done with this P2V.

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Thu, 09/22/2011 - 17:51
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If I were going to host all these VM disks on a single physical disk, I'd get rid of the mirrored boot system disk first. Maybe it's because I don't understand how mirrored system (bootable) dynamic disk works. Just make a basic disk, restore C: and D: (as volumes) there, and do whatever with the rest. Optionally - run fixmbr from a windows installation CD.

Thu, 09/22/2011 - 20:03