Converting a physical PC into virtual PC

[Sl33py]

Hi
My Customers laptop does not want to charge anymore so we need to send it to the warranty centre.
I wanted to create a virtual PC for him from his hard drive so he can work on another pc for the time .

I put his drive in as a slave on my pc then used http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx to create a VHD, I created a new virtual pc and selected the VHD When it boots up I get a err1err3

Any ideas on how to fix or another way
Thanks

 

[PallBearer]

i have this link to VMware to convert P2V

http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/get.html

 

[wizzball]

Silly question, what VM software are you trying to boot the image from?

Images created using Disk2vhd will only work on Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V. I've used VMWare's Converter http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/ to successfully migrate a physical PC to a virtual machine and it ran very well using VMWare's free Server edition.

Virtualbox also have an EXCELLENT guide to converting from physical to Virtual image.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

 

[midkemia]

Hi
My Customers laptop does not want to charge anymore so we need to send it to the warranty centre.
I wanted to create a virtual PC for him from his hard drive so he can work on another pc for the time .

I put his drive in as a slave on my pc then used http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx to create a VHD, I created a new virtual pc and selected the VHD When it boots up I get a err1err3

Any ideas on how to fix or another way
Thanks

Rather try and use VMware way better!

 

[repitah]

The disk2vhd usually works nicely (migrated a few physical servers to virtual). During the boot of the virtual, [F8] disable the automatic reboot option (a.k.a I didn't see a BSOD). If you get a Stop 0x7B error, then somewhere the machine is lacking the IDE registry settings /drivers. Additionally, when you ran the Disk2vhd, did you select the HAL modification option (good idea if going from a dual-core + / HT machine)

The err1err3 issue seems to be a common HP thing. (google?)

 

[korn101]

Poor Drive Its a slave

 

[Sl33py]

The disk2vhd usually works nicely (migrated a few physical servers to virtual). During the boot of the virtual, [F8] disable the automatic reboot option (a.k.a I didn't see a BSOD). If you get a Stop 0x7B error, then somewhere the machine is lacking the IDE registry settings /drivers. Additionally, when you ran the Disk2vhd, did you select the HAL modification option (good idea if going from a dual-core + / HT machine)

The err1err3 issue seems to be a common HP thing. (google?)

I think the problem is because i cant boot the laptop and then run disk2vhd.

 

[Arthur]

You could always use Acronis Backup & Recovery (used to be called True Image) to image the disk and convert it to a virtual disk. Supports VMware Workstation, Microsoft Virtual PC, Parallels Workstation or Citrix XenServer virtual appliance. Great tool.