Ghost to VirtualBox

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digerati
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Joined: 24. Aug 2009, 06:50
Primary OS: MS Windows XP
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Ghost to VirtualBox

Post by digerati »

I have a Ghost Image and I would like to run it in virtualbox.
I created a XP vm (thats what the image was...xp) but the newly created drive in VB is blank.
When I tried to restore the image using ghost to this drive, it was grayed out.
How can I accomplish this task?
Sasquatch
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Re: Ghost to VirtualBox

Post by Sasquatch »

Ghost should be able to create partitions based on the information inside the image. It seems that it doesn't. You need to create a partition that is the same size or bigger to fit the image so you can restore it.
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