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True Image 2010 and Virtualbox machine

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I am trying to install the Acronis Image of an active W XP Partition from a USB mass storage disk to an empty Virtualbox machine. After some success of writing with means and booting from the original Acronis 10 CD it failed after a few minutes with blue screen on the host W7 computer.
I thougt a could integrate my XP programs and utilities without reinstalling them on the host.
Would somebody be able to suggest me a similar method avoiding reinstallation?

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Windows XP fails to boot because the hardware on the source PC differs from the virtual hardware on the destination virtual PC, and your saved image doesn't have the required drivers for the Virtualbox environment. I'm not familiar with Virtualbox but instead use VMWare. VMWare has a physical-to-virtual converter application for VMWare Player and/or Workstation that I've used successfully to do what you're trying to do. If you really meant the older TI version 10 (and not version 2010), this converter even works with TI10 format .tib files as a source.

Perhaps this article will help: http://www.sysprobs.com/physical-virtual-virtualbox-virtualbox-p2v
Read the comments to the article for other suggestions.

Thanks Mark,
In fact I tried with TI 10, which I always used for XP images without any problems. On the W7 computer I am employing TI 2011. I must admit that this was the first time to work with virtual machines and with a second attempt as described obove, I faced problems also recognising the USB port.
Now I will try with the VMWare Player according to your explanations.

Thanks Mark,
In fact I tried with TI 10, which I always used for XP images without any problems. On the W7 computer I am employing TI 2011. I must admit that this was the first time to work with virtual machines and with a second attempt as described obove, I faced problems also recognising the USB port.
Now I will try with the VMWare Player according to your explanations.