Restore Old XP Machine to New Virtual Machine
see here for initial discussion [url] http://forum.acronis.com/forum/18535 [/url]
I kind of hijacked the thread for a bit, so thought I'd better start a new one. Following on from this, I managed to restore to the XP backup to a blank VM ware player. Once logged in, I then got a message that new hardware was found. Video Controller (VGA Compatible). It couldn't find the driver for this and I am not sure what it's looking for. It also complained about a missing driver for "Base System Device", with the same results. Looking in the machine settings, I found these two items under "other devices" with big yellow question marks against them, so I disabled them. I also found under the controllers, the following which also had the same question mark, but stated that it was disabled already and that another controller was doing the job. "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Inel(R) 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE controller" The VM seemed to function fine and I could open programs etc., but as soon as I re-booted, I got the blue screen of death. I was a bit rushed at the time, so didn't note down the code.
Anyway, I am restoring the image again, and this time I will try to just delete the drivers it can't find rather than just disable them.
Anyone got any other suggestions on what to do ? I am at the point where I think I'm just going to have to re-install a whole bunch of software manually. I can't even mount the old image as a drive as for some reason Acronis True Image Home 11 cannot open the image when you try and do that, which is really frustrating
Sorted !! Whoohoo !
I removed the NVidia drivers using "Add Remove Programs" once the image was restored. This fixed the problem with the Video driver and Base System device as they no longer showed.
I then deleted the controller with the yellow question mark that said it was disabled just in case.
The reboot was then fine.
It's slightly ironic that the reason the original laptop is unusable is that it was out of it's 3 year warranty period (which I forgot to extend) and the Nvidia GPU and possibly something else got fried. This had previously been replaced (along with the mother board) within the warranty and after doing a bit of googling, I found that Dell had actually brought a class action against Nvidia because of hardware problems to do with this.
Anyway, needless to say my new laptop does not have Nvidia hardware...
Many thanks for your help and suggestions mudcrab.
TI would not mount other images I tried (of the same laptop, but at different points time), but this is not an issue now, so it's all good.