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      technobabble
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      I have an old Vista PC that had my MS Accounting Program I was using on it. I converted the drive to vhd using Disk2vhd and then tried to setup VirtualBox to open it as a virtual machine.

      I get the "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del" to restart. I have followed the information on this website, http://blogs.technet.com/b/jonjor/archive/2011/10/04/vm-does-not-boot-following-p2v-or-disk2vhd.aspx and no luck.

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        alexntg
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        You could use VMware converter to make VMDKs of it, then bring it into VirtualBox that way.

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          technobabble @alexntg
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          @alexntg said:

          You could use VMware converter to make VMDKs of it, then bring it into VirtualBox that way.

          VMware vCenter Converter?

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            alexntg
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            Converter standalone

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              technobabble
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              Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.

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                alexntg @technobabble
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                @technobabble said:

                Arrrg...The big G is showing all downloads from vCenter and the same goes for the download page on Vmware's download site.

                Could you rephrase that? I'm not sure what you meant there.

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                  technobabble
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                  I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

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                    alexntg @technobabble
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                    @technobabble said:

                    I Googled VMware Converter and can only find this: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

                    That's the one!

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                      technobabble
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                      Thanks!

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                        technobabble
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                        WMware vCenter Converter won't work with .vhd. "The file you selected is not a supported source."

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                          alexntg @technobabble
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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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                            technobabble
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                            yeah...the Physical PC is dead.

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                              scottalanmiller @technobabble
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                              @technobabble said:

                              yeah...the Physical PC is dead.

                              Little late for that process then 🙂

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                                alexntg
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                                Well, that's unfortunate! Try spinning it up in Hyper-V.

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                                  technobabble
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                                  Yes, however I thought by having the vhd I would be able to visualize it.

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                                    technobabble
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                                    core2quad Q6600 doesn't allow Hyper-V in Windows 8 (missing slat)

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                                      alexntg
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                                      Surely you must have a server somewhere you could use?

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                                        technobabble
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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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                                          technobabble
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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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                                            alexntg
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                                            If it boots in Hyper-V, you could then P2V it to your heart's content.

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