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Restoring a TIB image to a Virtual PC VM

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Hey folks,

I have a ~50g TIB file I created with True Image 2009 of a full workstation that ran Vista. The image contains three volumes -- the OS partition, a diagnostic partition, and FAT16 partition.

I am playing around with attempting to restore this to a Virtual PC VM, but have not been successful so far.

I have tried restoring the entire disk, but I get a warning in the logs that states:

"Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Universal Restore skipped because the operating system that is being processed (Windows Vista) is not supported by the target platform."

I take this to mean that Windows Vista is not supported by Virtual PC. But, uh, it is. Subsequently, the created virtual machine will not boot. It proceeds through BIOS, goes to a black screen, then restarts.

I've also tried restoring the volumes, setting the O/S partition as the active. (Actually, it's marked as active by default.)

Interestingly, when restoring the image as "Volumes," all three partitions want drive letters. I've not tried leaving those letters alone, rather reassigning the O/S as C and the others with no drive letters.

Should this all work? What options should I use to successfully create a Virtual Machine. I have tried to create a VMWare Workstation VM, but while that produces no errors, I don't have VMWare Workstation to test. :-) Ultimately, I'd like to see if I can get this to work with VPC.

Thanks!

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Hello Michael,

Thank you for posting, I will be happy to help. Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

Michael,
The issue you are experiencing with the Virtual PC VM is rather strange. Have you specified the necessary Virtual PC VM drivers during the restore? Do you use Windows Vista 32 or 64-bit? Probably, 64-bit version of the operating system is not supported by the build or version of the Virtual PC VM that you are using currently.
Have you tried to convert the archive? If not, please see this article on how to do it.  
 
Please let us know the results, we should be sure that the program runs flawlessly. If the provided information is not clear or if you have any other question do not hesitate to post them and we will be glad to answer.
 
Thank you.