Attempting to restore backup image to VirtualBox not working...

Hello Philip!

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I load an instance of VirtualBox, booting using the Acronis Bootable Recovery Disc, select Recover, place the disc 2 of 2 of the backup archive sent to me from my client, Browse for backup, select the archive from the mounted CD drive, highlight archive and click Disk Recovery. Next I select Recover whole disks and partitions and check Use Acronis Universal Restore, under What to Recover I check Disk 1 and click Next. Under Settings of Partition C, under Partition Location (required) it says Not Selected. So I click on New location and select NTFS (Unlabeled)(C:) and click accept. This is as far as I have been able to get.

Attached is a screen shot of where I am stuck at.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Hi Philip.
Despite being a fan of Virtualbox, I must admit that in this situation Vmware workstation is of great help.
You can convert an Acronis backup into a virtual machine in no time, without having to go trough the recovery process. Just follow the Vmware wizard.

Regards

Duplicate post, sorry.

Thanks for the suggestion Hyphen Italia. I ended up recovering this backup to a physical workstation that was not in use. Worked just fine. It would still be nice to know why it would not work on VirtualBox.

OK, so I figured out the problem. Once I copied all the files of the split archive (in this case 2) to the same location I was able to complete the restore within VirtualBox. Who would have known it could be something so simple.