Hi
I seem to be having problems converting an old 18Gb Thinkpad T23 (vintage!) drive to a VM. At present the Thinkpad will not power on but the disk is ok and has an important application licenced to the disk. While sorting the hardware problem (or not as the case may be) I thought I would make a VM from the disk.
I have done this before with an old Windows 98 machine with no problems (via disk2vhd then Starwind). The difference here is that this disk is a dual boot/partition (MS-DOS (6) / Win2k Pro) with DOS on C and Windows on D.
When I perform a P2V using the entire disk and import it into VMware I see D has exactly the same files as C. It as if the Windows partition is a mirror of the DOS partition. I have tried doing separate images, creating a VM using the DOS image then adding the D: drive to the VM but it still sees the second drive as the DOS partition.
Note: I have only tried vhd's for VMWare but will attempt a simlar campaign for HyperVisor with vhdx files but I am not sure if this is a conversion problem or a VM problem.
Any pointers would be appreciated as I thought this would have been a simple job compared to some of the scenarios on this forum.
Cheers
Richard
I seem to be having problems converting an old 18Gb Thinkpad T23 (vintage!) drive to a VM. At present the Thinkpad will not power on but the disk is ok and has an important application licenced to the disk. While sorting the hardware problem (or not as the case may be) I thought I would make a VM from the disk.
I have done this before with an old Windows 98 machine with no problems (via disk2vhd then Starwind). The difference here is that this disk is a dual boot/partition (MS-DOS (6) / Win2k Pro) with DOS on C and Windows on D.
When I perform a P2V using the entire disk and import it into VMware I see D has exactly the same files as C. It as if the Windows partition is a mirror of the DOS partition. I have tried doing separate images, creating a VM using the DOS image then adding the D: drive to the VM but it still sees the second drive as the DOS partition.
Note: I have only tried vhd's for VMWare but will attempt a simlar campaign for HyperVisor with vhdx files but I am not sure if this is a conversion problem or a VM problem.
Any pointers would be appreciated as I thought this would have been a simple job compared to some of the scenarios on this forum.
Cheers
Richard
Statistics: Posted by BigDutch — Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:20 am