How to create a bootable backup?
Hello,
I have an old XP configuration which was working fine and which brought me entire satisfaction. But for any reason which I did not manage to solve, this old computer does not want to start anymore.
So I took out the harddrive and plugged it with SATA to USB adapter cable into my new machine, running Windows 7 64 bits.
On this machine, Acronis True Image Home 2012 is installed.
I would like to create a virtual machine from the harddisk I took out in order to load it in VMWare.
1) I created a Acronis True Image back-up from my XP-System.
2) I converted this back-up to a Windows Back-up *.vhd.
3) I created a new virtual machine in VMWare and chose as installer disk the *.vhd image.
--> It did not find the Operating system and show me 'Client MacAddress ........
PXE-E53 No boot filename received.
Which way should I do this?
Thank you in advance
Regards
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Greetings,
The method you are using sounds correct. The error message indicates that VMWare is attempting to load from a PXE network boot device. It is not always possible to create a back up or image that can boot from a problematic disk or image that does not start normally. Its nearly impossible for us to determine what the cause of this might be at this point. Have you done any diagnostics on the disk that will not start on its own?
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2) I converted this back-up to a Windows Back-up *.vhd.
3) I created a new virtual machine in VMWare and chose as installer disk the *.vhd image.
This doesn't look right. Installer image is a .iso the vmware mounts as a cd-rom drive. What you need to do is boot this virtual machine with True Image bootable CD and restore .tib backup to the VM's disk as you would do in case of physical machine. (Another question is where to locate the .tib so that it can be detected by boot cd, maybe it should be on network)
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Another user explains how to use VMware to leverage a VHD file created with Acronis. This might help: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/24164
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