Disk2vhd and VirtualBox woes
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@technobabble said:
WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."
You need to P2V the machine while it's running.
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yeah...the Physical PC is dead.
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Well, that's unfortunate! Try spinning it up in Hyper-V.
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Yes, however I thought by having the vhd I would be able to visualize it.
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core2quad Q6600 doesn't allow Hyper-V in Windows 8 (missing slat)
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Surely you must have a server somewhere you could use?
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I guess I can spin up a W7 PC and see if I can run the vhd in Virtual PC
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If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?
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If it boots in Hyper-V, you could then P2V it to your heart's content.
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@technobabble said:
If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?
Yup. Once it is running it is easy.
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Putting pieces that I have read together and have come up with this:
Mount vhd and mark partition active (which it currently is not active), clicking yes for the pop up "Ensure that the partition you are about to make active includes valid system files. Otherwise the disk will not start. do you want to continue. I presume this will not effect the running of my W8.1.1 system.
Unmount vhd and attempt to start in VirtualBox.
Does this sound plausible?
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Previous Disk2VHD versions had "Fix up HAL for Virtual PC". Only vaguely heard it "cleans up stuff" by Aaron Margosis. Had not not used the tool without it. Weird the current versions don't have the checkbox.
Curious when the VHD was made, and how this turns out with VBox.
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@RoguePacket said:
Previous Disk2VHD versions had "Fix up HAL for Virtual PC". Only vaguely heard it "cleans up stuff" by Aaron Margosis. Had not not used the tool without it. Weird the current versions don't have the checkbox.
Curious when the VHD was made, and how this turns out with VBox.
VHD was made about 6 months ago and the hard drive croaked a few months ago.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
If I did get a server up and running, would I be able to convert the vm from one type to another and get it off the server?
Yup. Once it is running it is easy.
I have a Dell PE 2850, but not running. I have to look up the CPU compatibility for Hyper-V for servers and it would be a few weeks before I could have room to fire this up in my home office, not to mention the noise!
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Ok, time for an update:
- vhd was created using Disk2vhd a week before physical PC died
- you can mount the VHD and access all information
- VHD fails to open in any VM platform
- Attempted to open in Hyper V failed
- used the method: create new VHD and choose add HD later, then attached VHD and now the message is "a disk read error occured"
I believe I read somewhere that the system reserved partition might have not been grabbed during the VHD creation and that could cause a non bootable VHD. This website suggests shrinking the partition and adding a new one, format NTFS and name System Reserved.
Does this seem likely and worth trying?
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Has this really been offline for 7 months? If so, why not just pull your data and start over?
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@technobabble yes, that makes a lot of sense.
OR.... install MS Accounting on a newer system (7 or later) and set it up fresh and just import the data.
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@Dashrender said:
Has this really been offline for 7 months? If so, why not just pull your data and start over?
Oh, I see that we had the same thought.
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@Dashrender I have attempted to do so. Only the Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 program is necessary.
I have my backups and I have the MOA 2007 install disk and have installed back on a Vista PC. However I can't get the backups to be imported into the PC...I have some documentation back on Spiceworks re: this issue.
So yea...time to prove state sales tax and no way to do so at this time.
The only other thought, (lightbulb moment):
- Install Vista and MOA 2007 with updates,
- attach VHD
- somehow map MOA 2007 to database on VHD
