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Hi,

Since two years ago, and every new version of VB, I try to restore a ghost image from USB external storage, with no success.
All I want is to define new VM with just empty hard drive and CD-ROM and USB storage.
Further more, once I get stuck on the USB issue, I MUST power off my Windows using the power switch as I cannot kill the VBoxSVC.
I uninstalled and reinstalled VB many times with same results.

When using regular Windows XP client VM I have no problems somehow to get to the USB drive. But this issue is for system with no OS on the hard drive.
I have Windows XP Pro SP3 on Pentium 4 2.93Ghz with 2GB RAM and plenty space on SATA drive.
I must do the steps in the wrong order, or my PC is not compatible.

Has anyone successfully restored a ghost image to "bare metal" VM from a USB storage?
If it can be done, I think I need more help on how to move the USB capture from Windows to VB while booting CD into DOS system.

Thanks.

I've used Ghost versions with networking support and that works just as fast as usb, there are also Bart's Boot disks which works very well.

vbox4me2 wrote:I've used Ghost versions with networking support and that works just as fast as usb, there are also Bart's Boot disks which works very well.

I used ghost only as example as I thought others may have already tried it.

My post was to describe an issue that I cannot get VB to recognize the USB storage on "bare metal" VM.
VB hangs with hourglass, sometime 100% CPU, and I cannot kill the VBoxSVC. Windows will not shutdown so I must use power switch to turn off the PC.
Anyone can tell me if it is possible?
Thanks.