XP guest in XP host - Mount a Partition with bad sectors

[batkrach]

Hi There!

I just gave a try to VB and I must say its really impressive that this software ist free! Thanxs!

Now to my problem. I needed to reinstall windows XP since my computer was too slow and with problems. Now I have 3 Partitions in my computer. P1: An older XP SP2 (2 years old with a HUGE registry), P2: My Data and P3: a freshly installed XP SP3.
I want to mount P1 in P3 as a VM, so that I don't loose all the configurations and already installed software, so that the migration is smoother.
I tried to make an Image of P1 with Clonezilla and VmWare Converter, but they failed to do it because of bad sectors in the partition. I run CHKDSK and other tools and blocked this sectors, but the problem persists.

Is there another way to mount an XP guest in an XP host?

I dont really want to work in P1, only have it there in case that I need to retrieve information or configurations.

Cheers!

B.

[batkrach]

I forgot to say...
I tried also VBoxManage with this code:

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VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename "g:\image-c\image-c.vmdk" -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -partitions 1

I mount the VMDK file, and the VM Starts booting. The Bootmanager loads. I have 2 posibilities here: XP (old) in P1 or XP (new) in P3. I select the P1. A Bluescreen flashes shortly and the VM reboots. I've attached it to the post.

Maybe its important to say, that I'm running xp in the partition 3. I'm using the standard Bootmanage from XP, which resides in the Partition 1.