Disk2vhd and VirtualBox woes
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@scottalanmiller said:
@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.
When W7 came out, I had to put it on Vista as it wouldn't install on 7. I believe it was an SQL versioning issue that didn't jive with W7 and MOA07.
FML
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@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.
When W7 came out, I had to put it on Vista as it wouldn't install on 7. I believe it was an SQL versioning issue that didn't jive with W7 and MOA07.
FML
Oh, that sucks. Hard to believe anything runs on Vista but not on 7, they are so similar.
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@technobabble said:
@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
Install Vista and MOA with updates. Copy database over?
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@scottalanmiller I believe it was the 2005 SQL express edition that didn't run on W7
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@technobabble wow...I just looked it up online and see that W7 is listed. Maybe I used 2005 EE on the old vista box. Is there anyway to tell SQL server I used by looking inside the VHD?
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Should be able to, but who knows where the info is hidden.
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@technobabble Try this if you haven't already : http://www.sysprobs.com/virtualbox-p2v-disk2vhd-errors-fix
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@Bill-Kindle If I am reading it right (read this page many times in the last 7 months) #4 is done on the PC you want to virtualize, correct?
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@technobabble That's the way I read it. It's the host you are trying to convert.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@technobabble That's the way I read it. It's the host you are trying to convert.
Like a villager in AoE2.
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@Bill-Kindle That machine is long dead!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Bill-Kindle said:
@technobabble That's the way I read it. It's the host you are trying to convert.
Like a villager in AoE2.
Exactly.
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@technobabble You might be able to mount the VHD still on a Windows system. Have you tried that?
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@Bill-Kindle Just tried last night using Hyper V and go the dreaded "a disk read error occured"
I found a website that basically says attach VHD to explorer so it is a hard drive, go in computer managment and shrink the data partition and then add a new partition named system reserved and then it should boot. Looks like that is going to be my next attempt at getting this working.
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@technobabble With my previous reply that's what I was talking about. Mount the VHD on a Windows 7 + machine and work with the partitions that way.
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@Bill-Kindle Ooooh...doh....I got you...
It mounts fine...I have never tried to modify the partitions.
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@Bill-Kindle ok..I have it mounted and it's listed as drive 1
225.96 GB Healthy (primary partition) and K: 6.93 GB RAW Healthy (Active, Primary partition) -
I had one of those awesome moments where you don't know whether to shout YES! YES! or just sob quietly with joy. And that moment was when Vista with my MS Accounting program finally booted to the desktop! I held my breath as I waited to see if the accounting Program would start up and if the data was intact. Yes and YES!
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So let me put this out there in case this happens to someone else.
If you have a P2V done by Disk2vhd and you get the a disk read error occurred, here is what worked for me:
*open Disk Manager and mount VHD
- make sure you have a partition for System Reserved and mark it active (I had a raw partition so I had to format it with NTFS and marked it active.)
- Create a new Virtual Machine in Hyper-V and do NOT connect to VHD
- Connect to VHD
- Boot to boot disk, W7 install disk will work. WARNING Repair with System Recovery will not work if you use x64 on x32 VHD. Also using the Hyper-V manager in W10 preview, the DVD wouldn't always show up for boot, so I used a 32bit W7 HP ISO.
*Proceed with System Recovery and wait for the reboot. - TA DA!!
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Can anyone tell me how to:
- get a larger screen for the Virtual machine? View Full Screen Mode only makes the window larger.
- When I use RDP to connect to the PC with Hyper-V the mouse is not captured in the VM only
- Since my VM was created by attaching my VHD, is it possible to export the whole thing as one VM? (I am probably saying it wrong and it might not matter, I just thought there might be a good idea to save as a Hyper V VM.
