Universal Restore from Vmware Image
I'm trying to do a restore from a vmware image I created of windows 7.
What I am doing is pre configuring a windows 7 workstation os in vmware, then I want to
distribute it to all the new computers in an office environment.
I can't seem to get the restore to work. I am hoping this is possible.
The Image restores to the new computer fine, but on boot. there is no boot manager.
so I put in the windows 7 repair disk and fix that.
But then windows 7 boots to the screen right before the mouse loads, and crashes and does a restart.
Any advice on what to do in regards to this would be appreciated
That didn't seem to be it.
what I did was, deleted the volume just in case,
made sure I restored the entire structure.
the MBR, the System Reserve, and the main partition.
used restore anywhere.
there were a couple of drivers it could not do but I have no clue what
PCI/ven_1002&dev_4391&subsys0E29105B&Rev_00 is.
Then I did a restore onto different hardware since it was from a VM.
once initial boot, it puked on boot. so i went into windows repair.
said could not fix the error, although the logs show most of it successful and did not show what was not.
next reboot, same thing. so i went back into acronis boot cd and manually did the universal restore.
next boot.
Same thing.
Something seems to be missing like a driver, but I have no clue how to find out what or why it's not working
:(
Google for "1002:4391" says it's a (S)ATA controller, i.e disk controller and Windows won't boot without it.
you can identify it at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids as described in http://kb.acronis.com/content/4000