But I think what you have written here should work, and that maybe I'm making some mistake. Thanks continuum for that input ! I tried it and I'm still getting the 7B Bluescreen error. I set it to 0 (in hexadecimal), restarted, and I managed to easily boot Windows 7 properly now. I think I didn't set the REG DWORD value properly as it was showing the older value again. It should find drivers and probably needs a reboot when done.ĮDIT: Scratch the text below. On next boot you can start into the 2008 R2 system.
Then select HKLM\p2v and click Menu > File > Unload Hive. Select HKLM and then Menu > File > Load Hive.īrowse to the Windows-directory on the virtualdisk > system32\config and select the file SYSTEM. On the target platform boot the newly created VM into the Windows 7 Recovery CD.Īfter boot is finished click on the CMD-button and run regedit. It only applies if the virtual disk is configured like this This assumes that VMware is the target and you configure the VM with VirtualHardware type 7. This procedure is used when otherwise the VM would boot into a bluescreen type 7B. To do that you boot the VM with the usb-disk into a win7 recovery CD and then follow the instructions I posted here You only need to patch the registry of the system a bit How can I change my methodology so that Windows even boots from the clone? I can change any tools I use, etc.
Result is that when Windows is booting (from the cloned HDD inside VMware), I get the blue screen error before I reach the login screen. I now connected this USB HDD to my main PC, fired up VMware Workstation 8 and defined a new Virtual Machine, and chose to boot off the USB HDD.
I chose to create an exact replica, and so 250 GB worth of data (partitions, etc.) was copied exactly, and the rest of the space was un-allocated. The source HDD was 250 GB in size which had 3 partitions, while the USB HDD I attached to the system, which was supposed to be the destination/clone HDD, was 320 GB in size. I used Ultimate Boot CD v5.1.1 with the system whose HDD I wanted to clone, and I cloned it using EaseUs Disk Copy, which comes with Ultimate Boot CD.
I have a system on which Windows 7 is installed, and I am trying to make a clone of its HDD image, which I then want to use in my main PC with VMware, so that I can boot Windows 7 off the cloned HDD.
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