Once again I faced the disgusting task to migrate a phisical Windows to a VM. Always involving booting problems ...
More over, original machine was XP and was not operating. Only available a full TIB image.
This time things were more easy. Sorry for the use of comercial names -I disclose nothing to do with Acronis --- but the tools made my day.
After creating a new VM with a big empty disk (target) [IDE master], creating a VHD in the host that included the TIB image [IDE Secondary], used Acronis Recovery (2014) iso [mounted in CD SATA master] to populate the empty disk (doing that at the host level always produced messages of USB disk not readable ...): boot from the iso, recover the full TIB from the secondary into the primary. (by the way, in 2015 Acronis dropped TIB to VHD conversión ...). Universal recovery option was there but did not solve the issue. The resulting VM was un-bootable.
Acronis Universal Restore 2015 to the rescue! This versión Works a Little different. Mounted as iso and booting from it, locates the previous Windows located in the IDE Master and patches it so as to work under the target operating virtual hw environment that universal restore detects - so ... virtualbox.
Very easy, very smooth.
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