TI2010 Restore to VirtualBox won't boot
I have a Windows 7 64 bit machine I imaged with True Image 2010 that I want to test by restoring to a VM.
I have purchased the Plus Pack (so I have universal Restore), but when I restore the image (using Universal Restore) the resulting VM won't boot (blue screens).
I'm using VirtualBox which supports 64 bit guests (including Windows 7)
The restore completes "successfully". I restored MBR and the VM's drive is set to Primary/active.
Any idea on what could be wrong?

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I was able to restore an archive of my desktop system (Win7U 64-bit) to a Vbox VM using Plus Pack Universal Restore, but it took a while.
I first tried it using rescue media created with the TIH 2010 UI. The restore reported success, but the VM blue-screened with a device error just after the Win7 "swirly colors" boot screen was displayed.
I then built a WinPE 3.0 x86 .iso (TIH 2010 won't run in an x64 PE environment) using the instructions in the Plus Pack help file, and the Win7 AIK (using VHD boot, so I didn't pollute my native install -- ain't technology wunnerful when it works?).
I restored with the same archive, and this time the VM booted. I suspect that the WinPE environment must have had generic drivers that the TIH 2010 UI-created media didn't. I haven't tried ferreting out a driver set for the Vbox devices to try again with the UI-created boot media.
I configured the Vbox VM (version 3.1.2) using the Win7 64-bit template, but used the SATA disk controller for the VHDs, a PIIX4 IDE controller for the .iso, and 64MB video memory.
My Win7 installation has the 100MB "System Reserved" bootloader partition (primary, active) and then the Win7 system partition (primary). I selected both for the restore, plus the MBR.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks Garry!
It worked - kind of.
I did as you said above, the VM booted and ran fine on the same machine.
Then I took the VM, put on an external drive and tried running it on another 64 bit machine. It booted up the first time, but after installing the "new hardware found" I rebooted and it crashed VirtualBox with "The virtual box GUI has stopped responding".
That said, I REALLY appreciate the help, I'm sure I'll get it working on the laptop as it's just got to be a driver issue (network card / DVD).
Again, thanks for the help.
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Glad to hear some progress has been made.
To clarify -- The VirtualBox VM on one PC runs OK with the universal-restored VHD, but that same VHD attached to a VirtualBox VM on a different PC crashes?
If so, something to check on the VM that boots is the VirtualBox setting for "System->Motherboard->Enable IO APIC", and make sure this option is the same on the VM that doesn't boot. Once a Windows guest OS is installed, switching this off or on after the fact can cause problems. If they're set the same then I guess we're still guessing...
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Hey Garry -
Thanks again. The "Enable IO APIC" was OK, but what I had done differently was the 2D and 3D acceleration. I turned both of those off, and everything is working.
I really appreciate your help on this.
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