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Hello. I am running Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation (build 10.0.11345) on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I have been messing around with recovering a backup to a virtual machine. I am able to create the VM file for Virtual PC, but I cannot get it to open in VPC. It fails to boot and gives the error message "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible".

I have been trying for hours, choosing all the different options when doing the recovery to VPC VM, but none have been successful so far. They all give the same error. I was able to recover the backup to another HDD and successfully boot from it on this machine.

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong or how to get the VM to boot? This is possible without Universal Recovery, if the VM is on the same computer, correct?

Thanks.

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Hello Mike,

Thank you for posting your question, I will be happy to help. Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

Please note that you are unable to convert 64-bit systems to the Virtual PC directly. Acronis software uses built-in drivers for the 32-bit Virtual PC environment.

As a workaround you can restore the image to the Virtual PC using Acronis Universal Restore. Since a VM is considered to be a dissimilar hardware, you should  specify the necessary drivers manually, selecting the necessary drivers for 64-bit systems. Please see the appropriate article for more information. 

On a Microsoft Virtual PC, be sure to recover the disk or volume where the operating system's loader resides to the Hard disk 1. Otherwise the operating system will not boot. This cannot be fixed by changing the boot device order in BIOS, because a Virtual PC ignores these settings.

Please let us know the results, we should be sure that the program runs flawlessly. If the provided information is not clear or if you have any other question do not hesitate to post them and we will be glad to answer.

Thank you.